C/D LENA DUNHAM (THE DEFINITIVE POLL)

it's pretty sad that the best and clearest route to solace this person has is fucking tweeting something her flakiest friend said

this is kinda my take on the entire dunham phenomenon. there's a paucity of feeling + idk going on in her work. it all reads to me like someone tweeting something their falkiest friend said.

falkiest

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sad girl dancing to lcd soundsystem in the city

sad girl editing tweets

u guys i was quoting the nerd misanthrope strawman i had created in the previous sentence itp not my own opinion of tolstoy

also forgot 2 say this: lol @ the idea that there is any shortage of people "portraying her little millieux" (of brooklyn) u read ilx you KNOW how much stuff of this ilk already exists dont front

p.s. everyone's posts itt are terrible & not just the usual suspects

no way my posts itt r transcendent

it's saying something about the kinds of person you don't like and can't bear to spend time with even in a fictional context. which is fair enough! but anyone i hear it from on ilx i'm pretty comfortable with putting it down to narcissism of small differences

― set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Saturday, October 6, 2012 7:33 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not like i'm like "grrr people who tweet!", i have a twitter. but sure, this show has been under attack for so many stupid reasons that i can't blame you for assuming that's where i'm coming from.

p.s. everyone's posts itt are terrible & not just the usual suspects

fu i am going to post in depth readings of every episode now

so here are the things 'all adventurous women do' does to set up and contextualise the climactic moment in which hannah horvath tweets something she heard one friend report that another friend say

the climactic moment of that episode is where her roommate frantically masturbates to the thought of one of the lonely island guys fyi

yeah i am less interested in writing a lengthy defense of that

it seems tbh pretty clear that the show's perspective is 'it's pretty sad that the best and clearest route to solace this person has is fucking tweeting something her flakiest friend said'

that would be otm except for the sad part, the scene plays triumphantly, she dances her damn buns off to a damn robyn song.

people don't/can't dance immediately after having a 'crisis' or being in a bad mood or having sad thoughts? Sometimes people associate a song with dancing and hear it and want to dance, as somebody who really doesn't dance ever I can't believe I'm having to explain this to another human.

you know it's not a documentary, right?

I think I was coming into the show with the notion that she was some young person who didn't deserve to have a show and at best it was a zeitgeisty flash in the pan thing, but it turned out to be really funny so fair play to her.

do u honestly think the takeaway from that scene is meant to be 'hanna is so awesome for tweeting this'?

classic, but I couldn't remember who she was when I clicked on this thread

its not the tweet im focused on, its the dancing

do u honestly think the takeaway from that scene is meant to be 'hanna is so awesome for tweeting this'?

― set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Saturday, October 6, 2012 9:43 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

do u honestly think the takeaway is meant to be 'shes so sad/pathetic'?

no i think it is ~multi-leveled~ and ~complex~

ok... good!!!

yeah!!!

or at least, you know, in the middle: this isn't much but we can be more or less okay with it. -- if it weren't for the dancing to robyn breaking the tension it'd be unbearably miserable. (dancing to 'dancing on my own' is annoyingly on-the-nose but so is the whole enterprise of deciding an episode of your half hour hbo show is going to build to someone writing a tweet so whatever.) anyway i mainly gave it a pass because i really enjoyed the logic of the 'i should have known, he only ejaculated like thirty percent of the time ... and acted really gay' line

haha this show is sooo bad and that description of it is why

so you don't like this show, is what you're saying

ending of episode seven (the warehouse party one ..) is similarly ... equivocal? hanna's slow motion grin in the back of the cab while marnie and adam smolder on either side.

similarly far too on the nose, it turns out, is the opening of episode eight

I want you to know, the first time I EXCELSIOR you, I might scare you a little, because I’m a man, and I know how to do LOLs.

― lag∞n, Friday, October 5, 2012 2:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in which hanna and adam are bonding over watching SUPER 8 FOOTAGE of him as a kid and we cut to marnie being SAD whilst going through FACEBOOK PICTURES of her ex and his new girlfriend

xpost

i would've probably loved that ep if it ended on the tweet! maybe she just goes and gets a sandwich afterwards. i dont think there was any tension that needed to be broken or that it would've been unbearable. dancing to 'dancing on my own' is what you stuff in there when you don't trust what you just wrote, imo

i think it's a really good show, just so that's clear

oh i think you're right, i'd probably like it more if ended tweet, sandwich. but i am engaged in mounting a defense here and all that

Lena Dunham l am about it. Dislike the ILX folk who might happen to click dud.

Chekhov wasn't Tolstoy either, nor is Ann Beattie.

And none of them are the towering young man that David Foster Wallace was, thank God.

Dudes ppl do get drunk and listen to Robyn it is like a thing that 20somethings do

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that's pretty much the way in which she ultra-realistically portrays her little millieux

i am right now getting v angry about and trying v hard not to get involved in a twitter argument about girls (not yet actually an argument, more a string of people saying how racist lena dunham is), i guess i am in some way invested in lena dunham. CLASSIC.

gonna spend a few hours thinking of the perfect pithy tweet now.

Lindsey Weber ‏@lindseyweber
The 1st person to ask Lena Dunham a Q @ #nyerfest is a NYU student who wanted to tell Lena about her new boyfriend. She relates to Shoshana.

^this person is clearly the highest level new yorker

shes got it all: nyu, sex in the city, the new yorker, the new yorker fest, girls

tbf Shoshana is the best

the actress (son of mamet) is funny but the character is like half note

she's a good actress. i liked her a lot in mad men.

I'm voting "uh, who?".

she hasn't gotten enough screen time imo, there's flashes of the character's delightfulness in Crackcident and the finale xps

do they actually smoke crack should i download this ep

live tweeting the dunham nyer fest q&a right now !!! https://twitter.com/AnnaHolmes

Anna Holmes ‏@AnnaHolmes
"I think we made it too big." Dunham on the fake penis that Adam Driver used during masturbation scene in episode 5.

Anna Holmes ‏@AnnaHolmes
"The criticisms that disappointed me were the whole privilege and nepotism thing."

UH OH

Anna Holmes ‏@AnnaHolmes
Dunham is addressing critiques of diversity. "What I was trying to do was very specific."

specifically wite right ladies

Anna Holmes ‏@AnnaHolmes
On meeting @louisck at the Emmys: He said, "What you are doing is important."

comedians man