The truth is that Girls feels less like portrait of a generation than a napkin doodle of bougie urbane privilege. All consoling cupcakes and winking and parents-who-are-both-of-them-professors, it’s like the origin story for a new breed of Cathy, ack-ing her way through professional and personal malaise and urgently nudging you all, “Yeah, right? You too, right?!” Halfway through the first episode I expected Lena Dunham to use the phrase “go girl” in air quotes and then turn and wink at the camera like she’s Zack fucking Morris. It’s lousy.
http://maisonneuve.org/blog/2012/04/17/why-hbos-girls-unfunny-vacuum-pandering-privileged/
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
My wife said, "so this main girl is basically Liz Lemon if she got fired from her first comedy gig?".
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
that dude tweeted angrily about it for like 24 straight hours yday xp
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
what feels like the portrait of a generation
― da croupier, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
lol he actually went w/ack cathy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
fuck that dude
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
To paraphrase something my girlfriend said—yes, I have a girlfriend, despite the fact that I’m an agent of the patriarchy who doesn’t like Girls—this show is lifestyle porn for the willfully miserable, indulgent escapism for people who think they need to be unhappy to be real.
wincing r/n
― goole, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
i like when he quotes his girlfriend so we know his opinion is valid
ha xpost
― da croupier, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol i haven't seen this show, what am i even doing
― goole, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
is she directing all the episodes or just writing?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
wikipedia has her listed as director of the first three, solo writer of the first five and co-writer of the sixth and seventh show.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
seventh episode seems sure to provoke commentary: "Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident"
wiki also says this is ep 7 - "Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident" lol xp
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
we shd prob just lock this thread now
when does j0n w1ll1ams guest?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
i cannot wait for the cackcident!
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
Dunham co-wrote all ten episodes of the first season and directed five.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
Michael Penn does the musical score for Girls, maybe the episode title is a nod to his album MP4: Days Since a Lost Time Crackcident
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
maybe it's about a butt crack
― dmr, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
maybe
― dmr, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
"that's like not being on facebook""i'm not on facebook""you're so classy"
― dmr, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
haha aw i kind of love that li'l mamet girl
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
"you're so fucking classy", i think it was
― Number None, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
is the tall one brian williams' daughter?
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
"and of course when i go to work i try to wear my miranda hat."
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
i thought zosia mamet was pretty funny, much better actress than her stepmom too
― max, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
damn, sneak dissin on rebecca pidgeon
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
the look she got on her face when she was like "sometimes a little samantha comes out" <3
xp poor rebecca pidgeon
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
her mom lindsay crouse is a good actress
― buzza, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
poor poor rebecca pigeon lol xp
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder if she h8s her dad
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
oh, lindsay crouse is her mom! lindsay crouse is rad.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
li'l mamet's scene was the only funny one in the pilot for me
― buzza, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
she had some funny lines, I like her in Mad Men a lot, when I say she's irritating I know her character is supposed to be cringeworthy. mission accomplished I guess!
― dmr, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
this show is good
― akm, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
i wish at least one person on this thread would really hate it so everyone could have a big argument
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
I liked this! Wish I had HBO so I could watch it.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
give me a couple episodes and i might take a firm anti stance tbh
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, hey, maybe everyone knows already, but I just saw that HBO is streaming the pilot ep on their site.
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/4/17/13/enhanced-buzz-26285-1334683665-8.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
i think that would hit harder if it wasn't actually a show about economic privilege already
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
The backlash against this show is so strident. I don't get it.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
"born on third. think they hit a triple" kinda a decent description of the text of the show really, except for the 'thinking they hit a triple' part. more like, 'born on third. think they struck out.'
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
backlash? almost everything i've read about this show everywhere (except for like 2 blog posts) has been incredibly positive
Were any people really really really mad when Robert Downey Sr.'s son and Blythe Danner's daughter and Beau Bridges' son made that movie with Vince Vaughn's BFF about the problems of a young arms dealer with daddy isues?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
lol at "the drummer of bad company's daughter" being the mark of privilege. i mean, she probably wasn't destitute, but ... annnnnyway, is this show funny? or not.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
lol I mean Lloyd Bridges, whoops xpost
surprised they didn't play up that she's the daughter of puppeteering superstar Jeff Dunham
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
I refuse to watch anything by Joss Whedon because holy fuck he's a third generation tv scribe, was born with a silver pen in his mouth ohhh it just fills me with class rage
― da croupier, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Thought this was alright, hoping that the show is able to evolve past examining its own privilege/entitlement though, as I'm pretty sure that's gonna get old fast.
― ryan, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link