GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

let daughters have two weeks warning!

also being played in a comedy, so of course it's going to be ramped up and in public rather than a short private conversation outlining the end of support

the emily nussbaum review said judd apatow gave "higher stakes" notes a lot so yeah wacky sitcom hijinks ahoy

surely the implication is that hannah is just like her mom? also the m.o. of the show is to not show anyone in a good light, so there's that.

ps college professors have hella entitlement and go their whole careers in stunned disbelief that they don't make as much money as they should

plus are super liberal and elitist

"higher stakes" = have the dude try unwanted anal sex

true! xp

Omg u guys.

How long has it been that a half-Jewish, half-gentile cast is considered homogenous and "lily-white"? Maybe 20 years? It's a sign of cultural progress that it's so, in any case.

Just like Vampire Weekend with its Jewish and Persian members.

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Still need to read that

still wanna see this show.

that was the 1000th post. you guys are making it sound really zeitgeisty and something i MUST see. even the haters. you all love the new voice of generation twitter. she is your president and you want to marry her!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrQfvq9RfM0

thanks!

the douchey guy just looks so gross when he opens the door

I totally forgot to say that after I watched it I couldn't believe this thread had so many shows its just like some harmless tv show

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i liked it! would watch again. that sex scene was so nothing. i mean it was pretty normal and funny. i dunno. it was like a minute long. just kept hearing about it everywhere.

definitely some funny moments. sex & the city for generation twitter! yay!

I think that the older you are, the less inclined you might feel to find too much to hate about this show.

At worst, it may simply not be your cup of tea

As the threadstarter, I suggest we now start talking instead about Armando Ianucci's new show Veep, which starts this weekend

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I really want to talk about Veep. I'm all excited. I watched In the Loop for the first time last week and loved it. we should start a thread about it

A thread for Armando Iannucci's VEEP

ok i watched it on the youtube. lol'd at her dad wearing a stud earring and 'groovy lifestyle' and eigeman was cool. wasn't really laughing at or engaged with anything else. i didnt wanna say it but i related more to the dudes in tiny furniture, and ive definitely behaved like Buff Maynard G. Krebs did in this episode. i dont think the show is for me really but i might watch some more anyway if they keep putting it up on youtube.

Is Tiny Furniture good? TBH I'd never even heard of it before this thread.

yeah it's pretty solid.

if u haven't seen it (i haven't either) apparently it's showing on 04/29 8:00 - 9:45p on Sundance channel. i didn't realize i even got that channel tbh but apparently i do

lol @ Buff Maynard G. Krebs

How have you guys not seen Tiny Furniture? I thought everyone here was cosmopolitan, metropolitan, clued-in, wired up and media savvy. Are some of you in the provinces?

Here listen to Lena talking to Elvis Mitchell

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Oh, thanks Morday. I just figured out I get sundance so that's cool.

oops- mordy

Morday comes before Tuesday

that's actually the 2nd time you've called him Morday in this thread today, E. the first time really cracked me up.

Mordé

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Are the parents really not supposed to come off as, like, logical and correct here? Like I seriously do not think that you are supposed to watch this and *actually* see them as the BIG BAD AWFUL ROTTEN MEANIES or some shit. I mean it was sorta fucked to give her 0 grace period bcz I mean it's going to take more than the length of dinner for someone to find a job, but seriously I think LD is a bit more self-aware than a lot of y'all are giving her credit for.

I mean seriously

Also I'm still sort of confused how all of this is coming from ONE (1) THIRTY-MINUTE EPISODE GUYS IT'S NOT A WHOLE THREE SEASONS YET IT'S JUST ONE EP JUST CTFO

i felt like the first scene could have stood to be a lot more excruciating than it was. though tbf it was pretty excruciating. points for the really forced "and it's so nice to see you" stuff. also dunham's mouth-full "mmm a growing girl!" or whatever - yes, v writerly

i didn't make it through to the end of the episode because all of the scenes with the 'british' girl appalled me

'british'? the actress was born and raised in england afaik

o, i know that

what do quotes mean then

Pretty sure I'm the only person who said "yow, didn't appreciate seeing the freaks & geeks mom be hateful to her daughter" so no reason to keep reaffirming that parents were in the right (though yeah, f'd up they were so sudden) or that one can assume a sympathetic backstory for the characters, neither of which I disagree with. And I promise this is the last time I will reaffirm my deep, personal truth about the misuse of Becky Ann Baker in pilots.

lol.

i really enjoyed that she was the freaks & geeks mom, it's a nice nod

as opposed to the incestuous and gross s&tc stuff, which seems i. like it's making someone at HBO v happy ii. like it's kind of a forced attempt by the kind of 20-something who'd get an MFA to write the kind of 20-something who'd be deeply engaged with that show. HOWEVER i am unaware of conditions on the ground so if that person seemed more plausible within the grounds of the fiction to other people then OKAY

what do quotes mean then

i didn't enjoy the way her britishness was leveraged for the sake of the script, and it didn't jibe w/ my experience of overprivileged british girls. // unless she's meant to be fronting with not knowing what s&tc is and not knowing the word 'hoodie' which also seemed sort of plausible

The first ep. of the show made it seem like the start of an aimless indie film indulgence. I'm curious to see if the conceit can sustain a show. I mean, not curious enough to watch this, but curious enough to follow the thread!

there were some good lines. "but then you won't be here to read it." "let's play the quiet game." hahaha. i'm paraphrasing.