GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

yeah i wanted to see that

And his name is Bryce (?) and omg great name so . . .

<3

barely recognised zosia mamet from mad men!

at the beginning i very vaguely recognised her but had to google her. it's p confusing, the characters could hardly be more different.

Super-gushy (in their words) Bill Simmons podcast today with LD...

Ok I'm officially enjoying the Gawker recaps more than the show. As insightful commentary on the show I'm pretty sure they're lacking, but how many recaps ever are that insightful? But just as an extended entertaining gawker running-gag/literary exercise with a set of tics and affectations, I find their consistency both comforting and hilarious.

finally saw this ep - the fight between hannah & marnie gave me so many knowing/been there lols, just the WORST kind of indirect argument where you argue about stupid surface things like they're SO meaningful but they're just placeholders for the real stuff you're mad about. and sooooooooo awesomely passive agressive.

I loved how as soon as you see the crowd she's reading to & she starts talking about the dudes internet dating username you're like, oh dude what have you done. And that beat where she's all..."...he, like...DIED...?" as though she was waiting for the audible gasp of sympathy.

So much perfect, familiar awkwardness. It's getting terrifyingly relatable too though, lol

http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/hbo-girls-adam-driver-on-playing-lena-dunhams-boyfriend.html

lol dude who plays Adam is named Adam irl, and he IS basically his character - excellent casting

I haven't seen this show yet but this made me lol:

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/15/whos-watching-girls-white-guys-over-50/

Actual young people are all watching on HBOGo or torrents.

decided i am going to try to avoid reading anything about this show (aside from this thread)

Driver works on his roles on a couch in this apartment, and keeps to a strict regimen of exercise and eating well, which includes six eggs every morning, though he throws away four of the yolks. “It’s good for you, protein and all that,” he says. “I used to eat a whole chicken every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring — go to the store, buy it, eat it. It’s a mess.”

it might be in part the late hour, but this finale just destroyed me

I liked the soundtrack to during the wedding -- good calls for actual wedding reception-ish music. The ending made no sense at all to me. If you have lived in new york for even a momentary amount of time, and you are in a subway station, you know how to find out where you are. You look at the signs all over the subway station.

I think that was a metaphor tbh

wait, so she feel asleep and when she woke up the train was stopped at a metaphor? writing!

no silly it's like in lawrence of arabia when people are always like "who are you" and they mean "identify yourself" but what it really means is uh

I think it's about how he's gay I had a concept here

i haven't watched this episode yet but Lena Dunham said in an interview posted upthread (re. the programme "baggage") that her irl small baggage was that her sense of direction was so bad that she basically never knew where she was, often got confused and, as a result, was basically always late when meeting people which infuriated them.

dude who plays Adam is named Adam irl, and he IS basically his character

Except that he's an actor, and apparently good at his job?

"playing himself" doesn't pass the smell test with me talking about any actor - how would one know?

yeah that's a red herring. dude has amazing screen presence.

Loved this episode.

-Elijah....?
-Hey, J-Lo at the Grammy's

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5st0cMb5w1qzvyhvo1_500.gif

marnie was highly .gifable this ep, also her dance when the pussy yankin song comes on

-He seems great...
-I know, and rich as fuck.

13 pounds and it's been really horrible my whole life.

I love Adam. A lot.

i'm crazy about that guy

I find it a little sad that he's by far the most enjoyable character to watch at this point.

He's an amazing character!

stock manic pixie dream boy. seriously. replace him with Natalie Portman or whoever and modulate a bit of gender specific stuff, and you'll see it right away.

groudbreaking. now talk about how there are no characters of color, and that they all have famous parents.

the first season is over, and there are the people that like the show, the people that don't like the show, and the people that just can't stop beating the same four or five drums.

I don't think the def of "manic pixie" allows for characters whose sex fantasies involve underage prostitutes.

haven't you seen garden state?

for real? i thought manic pixie was a relatively new drum. i'm serious though. when i watch adam, i feel... objectified.

uh. i don't think it's possible for there to be a male equivalent of the manic pixie dream girl.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQyyAeqrg6I/TRvVVmFUjgI/AAAAAAAACQw/wDil94iqAHY/s1600/jack+mcbrayer.jpg

idk how people feel about her but Jessa is kind of amazing

Jessa's level of abandon honestly terrifies me.

Awesome episode. God I hope that gay dude doesn't move in with Hannah. That would be the worst fake household ever, them being fake nice to each other uuuuughh. Who is the guy that is his boyfriend? Iknow him from something, I'm sure of it.

Shoshanna is outstanding. In all ways.

"Everybody's a dumb whore!"

God I hope that gay dude doesn't move in with Hannah.

that guy is great but it would worry me that Girls would go down too much of a SATC road with that one. although the character is funnier than anyone who was ever on SATC.

oh he's great in passing. his zing fights with Marnie are the BEST

oh no, now there are gays in this.

I know! The title SPECIFICALLY says GIRLS.

what does it say abt me that i thought adam sounded nuts & controlling in this ep & that hannah wd be right to tell him 2 take a long walk / short pier

I don't think you're wrong. He has a point about her chasing him like he was the Beatles, but it's a huge 180 from the lonewolfishness that informed the bulk of their relationshiop early on, even if he's not that way so much now.

honestly I think she'd be cool with it if it was her idea, or if he hadn't said it out loud to her face in the moment. you know? I think it's just that she wants more control over the decision, somehow. shrug.

but honestly he's a cool guy, he's real with her and her hanging onto her normal way of life is kind of lol since that's really not working out that well for her anyway.

alllll of that being said, I get her too. I'd probably be similarly weirded out, even if part of me did want him to move in.

oy I'm overthinking now, I'll shut up.

loved this show. bring on s2.

finale was probably the funniest of the season for me, show definitely got better overall as it went on, although i'm not really fully on board.