GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

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/

My wife said, "so this main girl is basically Liz Lemon if she got fired from her first comedy gig?".

that dude tweeted angrily about it for like 24 straight hours yday xp

what feels like the portrait of a generation

lol he actually went w/ack cathy

fuck that dude

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

i like when he quotes his girlfriend so we know his opinion is valid

ha xpost

lol i haven't seen this show, what am i even doing

is she directing all the episodes or just writing?

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.

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

we shd prob just lock this thread now

when does j0n w1ll1ams guest?

i cannot wait for the cackcident!

Dunham co-wrote all ten episodes of the first season and directed five.

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

maybe it's about a butt crack

maybe

"that's like not being on facebook"
"i'm not on facebook"
"you're so classy"

haha aw i kind of love that li'l mamet girl

"you're so fucking classy", i think it was

is the tall one brian williams' daughter?

"and of course when i go to work i try to wear my miranda hat."

i thought zosia mamet was pretty funny, much better actress than her stepmom too

damn, sneak dissin on rebecca pidgeon

the look she got on her face when she was like "sometimes a little samantha comes out" <3

xp poor rebecca pidgeon

her mom lindsay crouse is a good actress

poor poor rebecca pigeon lol xp

i wonder if she h8s her dad

oh, lindsay crouse is her mom! lindsay crouse is rad.

li'l mamet's scene was the only funny one in the pilot for me

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!

this show is good

i wish at least one person on this thread would really hate it so everyone could have a big argument

I liked this! Wish I had HBO so I could watch it.

give me a couple episodes and i might take a firm anti stance tbh

Oh, hey, maybe everyone knows already, but I just saw that HBO is streaming the pilot ep on their site.

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/4/17/13/enhanced-buzz-26285-1334683665-8.jpg

i think that would hit harder if it wasn't actually a show about economic privilege already

The backlash against this show is so strident. I don't get it.

"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.'

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?

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.

lol I mean Lloyd Bridges, whoops xpost

surprised they didn't play up that she's the daughter of puppeteering superstar Jeff Dunham

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

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.