GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

JESSA

whatever she's dead to me

http://i.imgur.com/Xa0un.jpg

I hope her and Mr. V.C. move to the virgin islands or something and she gets replaced

but the second season will prob open with news that they divorced within 3 months or something

I like Jessa, but that probably says something unsavory about me. Not really buying the marriage thing at all, or how everyone just kind of accepted it. The only character whose reaction to it seemed in character was Adam.

shoshana's was great!!

ok, true

I forgot what she did tbf

she said "everybody's a dumb whore", which was otm

OK, I only watched six episodes of this, I will watch the rest now and report back!

I just checked the episode dates and it turns out that I stopped watching this show the same week I got disinterested and annoyed with a mid-20s person I went on some dates with!

Picks up phone. "Yo skank, where you at, getting that pussy pounded?"

"(it's my sister)"

BIG HOOS aka the adamdriver

lol

I am now seeing his inability to go outside without having issues with his artistic principles compromised

I'm ready for love
Oh baby, I'm ready for love

do not watch the season 2 trailer it is full of spoilers

also do not vote for president nick nolte

i've only seen the season 2 promo that is just a twitter window w/ her typing and then deleting various quips, which don't watch that either it is horrible

No non-white people in the trailer cue controversy.

I think I saw her kissing a black dude

All the kissing went by so fast.

childish gambino is gonna make me frustrated about this i just know it

uh whoa

https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/276579723616874497

Lena Dunham
‏@lenadunham
Ask my dad's friend Bob RT @crousselle what the hell happened to you as a child that made you like this?

saw Tiny Furniture recently, liked it well enough (sex in a pipe in a street = lol). I will probably get around to watching this series soon

‏@lenadunham Ask my dad's friend Bob

http://hollywoodhatesme.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/killer-bob.jpg

"Your gran-dad is both a renegade and a gentleman"

I saw when she originally tweeted that and just assumed it was a joke tweet, but lots of people seem to be taking it pretty seriously.

No, they are pissed she used abuse jokes, have not seen anyone imply she is abuse victim

starting to suspect Lena Dunham could tell a lawyer joke out of the Prairie Home Companion joke book and get heat for it

true

True, but that one was genuinely fucked up.

(and hacky to boot)

eh it was fine
long profile of her mom in the new yorker

http://i.imgur.com/8UMsK.jpg

Booth Jonathan looking rough there

http://24.media.tumblr.com/09d3de4e333d75e051f8caf0e868a4f2/tumblr_mezqo8jJOa1qaywulo1_500.jpg

loooooooooool

ha

Ok, Girls is winning me over.

As far as the whole "Dunham is privileged/connected" thing, I basically came to terms with it like this: There are thousands of other equally "privileged" wannabe artists, writers, musicians, directors, actors, etc., and most of them don't make it because they are not as good or as driven as she is. At the same time, a person as talented and as driven as Dunham (which is admittedly rare) but without her connections would pretty much never have a show on HBO at 26. So I get the resentment but I also think it's overstated, because she is a genuinely good artist, and most rich kid MFA grads are never heard from again.

As far as the whole "the characters are privileged and don't have real problems" thing, I think this is a disingenous argument made by people who are largely jealous haters who don't have their own HBO show at 26. It's not The Wire, it's a relatively light show about twenty-somethings in New York, and I don't think it takes its characters overly seriously. The fact that their problems aren't immense doesn't mean that they're not "real" problems, even if they're not severe.

Anyway, I finished season 1 and I thought it was good. I think the show actually is gutsy and groundbreaking in certain ways, and at the same time it's mostly just good entertainment. Adam Driver is kind of transcendent, and way beyond the rest of the cast imo.

One surprising thing -- by the end of the season I just didn't like Hannah Horvath very much. I felt like the things people said about her were true -- she's overly self-involved and not a very good friend, and downright insensitive to other people on a regular basis. I found the date rape joke scene in the job interview telling -- that's not just some lol noob mistake, it's an absurdly clueless and even hostile thing to say to someone. I'm pretty sure Dunham is much more aware of this than Hannah is though.

glad you came to terms with this sitcom

i like it when you cut people down, mh. it's funny because it makes people feel stupid, which is funny.

apparently you missed the months of me being emotionally honest and getting artfully clowned as well. perspective is good.

i prefer a more artful clowning, that's all i'm saying.

well, now I feel dumb for lack of art. do you feel funny?

poking fun at our group propensity for having to justify or reconcile our interest in a tv show isn't exactly a personal attack. pretty sure I did the exact same thing upthread.

too much privilege in this thread imo

;)

We go on hurting each other
Making each other cry
Hurting each other
Without ever knowing why