GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

think about it

Last time I saw Andrew Andrew they were using a Novation Twitch controller with a Macbook Air.

But they shot to fame, if I remember correctly, throwing the first iPod DJ parties at APT. The idea of a party where people can bring their iPods and play music was so novel there were articles about it in the New York Times. Or maybe it was the Village Voice. I don't remember, but they are very real.

Andrew andrew are actually very hot shit in nyc

http://newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2013/02/11/130211crte_television_nussbaum

Hm - the NYRB article is "pretty much the only essay on the show worth reading" [apart from the Atlantic article I filched my only good point from a few paragraphs ago]

Coates' was a brief thing, no? Either way I agree that dismissing all writing save one essay is dumb. She knows better. Still, I liked the article.

I don't generally like Nussbaum's writing, but "Hannah Barbaric" is a funny headline.

Andrew Andrew were a "big deal" when Electroclash happened!

are her mustards not receiving enough accolades

― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Saturday, February 2, 2013 5:15 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Loved this line. The show is so good at creating laugh-out-loud moments in the middle of really fraught, combative scenes. And not even to defuse the tension, necessarily. People just say ridiculous things when they're arguing.

that line might have been most i've "identified" w this show so far (i am 25)

Also the noodles are so hard to cook line was nicely tossed off

i wonder how many times i've said (i am 25) in this thread

Hannah grabbing the cake and eating it by herself during the dinner party argument was great

I thought it was a great episode. Great in that it didn't center around Hannah and allowed the other characters to continue being fleshed out, not only did it show it was worth following them as well, but it gave you a little break from Hannah, while letting her be great comic relief.

anything that reps for mary mccarthy is good as far as i'm concerned. woefully underappreciated writer. but sort of on a different level entirely than everyone else mentioned, i thought.

Read The Group a couple of years ago and loved it.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar also has views

lol

will always be my favorite athlete

wow

we should all be intently listening to voices of the next generation, hearing what they have to say and, when they are struggling to say it, help them to articulate better

this is an incredibly generous thing for someone to say

He'll never make it as a critic

lmao @ 'set of gay entourage'

I was just saying the other night that the thing that strikes (and annoys) me most about this show is how damn dramatic every single person and thing is. I mean I remember being 25 and I don't ever remember it being like that. It's tiring just to watch! I'm not really fighter though. I don't know.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Monday, February 4, 2013 3:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah I feel like, half the scenes feel like they were written for a high school drama class

Hannah grabbing the cake and eating it by herself during the dinner party argument was great

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, February 5, 2013 12:35 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

seems to be a running gag whenever she's gonna be in a emotionally tense situation, cf a few episodes ago where she's just eating cool whip from a tub

anyway I'm glad that they made jessa likeable, also ray gives me strong david schwimmer vibes idk

yeah exactly, I felt like :/ for laughing at first but now that it's a thing it's kinda funny the moments when she does it

she should make a funny face and say "ack!" too when she does it.

i feel like ray has been kinda defanged in this season, i am psyched that next week he is back at work & so can perhaps be portrayed as his unimpressable snarky self.

this episode was so good, anyway. like i am still sorta bugged that it's made the shift to chronicling relationship drama over just engagement with the world & jobs & being outside near other humans &c but the last three scenes, jessa & the guy arguing, shoshanna & ray being all syrupy & having the you don't have any interests conversation & then jessa convincingly crying, they were all so affecting. i feel like it's made a slight detour into ~brooklyn humour~, like the website editor who tells hannah to go do coke, or the pretentious conceptual artist or the artisinal mustard thing, like all of these feel like slightly generic inside baseball tangents to take, to me, but this ep managed to be really affecting anyway.

Artisinal Mustard could be a Portlandia skit.

validated by the accolades line but yeah i feel like that kinda thing is sorta voguish stereotypical generica

this ep is p classic

heavy 'louie' vibes

ok, that was fantastic

yeah, wow

that was great.
so happy to see she was the writer at the end.
definitely the one to show to people who think Girls is all hype and no heart.

yeah how I felt. Also definitely the one to show anyone who thinks Lena Dunham isn't being reflective or lacks insight into her weird characters and their up-fuckedness.

not so be super crepey but up until now i've kinda found her unattractive but this somehow clicked through.
also a good reminder to never ever ever have sex with women under the age of thirty ever again. that bird has flown.

We've just watched all of the first season and caught up with what's been shown of season 2 thus far (except last night's episode) in about the last week. Can't quite decide if everyone in it is a douchebag or just misunderstood and conflicted. Suspect the latter. Thoroughly enjoying it, but we've not really got anywhere since Generation X, have we?

this season has actually been exceptional

the show is turning into something else entirely lately and i am digging the fuck out of it

That was like a perfect dream/fantasy sequence including walking out of her job.

glad to see Adam back next week.

i love her, and i love this ep

i just quietly wish she would stop wearing those terrible ugly romper shorts/matching tops

^

It's amazingly effective costuming, though. Funny how she looked a zillion times better in his sweater, huh?

yeah, that was really the highlight of the whole ep -- just the shot of her lounging with the newspaper and dressed in grown-up clothes.

found her freakout too excruciating to watch.

dude clearly was more interested in humoring her than engaging with her from the start though.

also a good reminder to never ever ever have sex with women under the age of thirty ever again.

that's a pretty gross take-away imo.

Anyway, this episode got to me. She blasts him for not revealing about himself, when, in the beginning of the episode, for a dude of his type, he actually gave her quite a lot of data, especially considering the way she showed up. I love how she didn't get the details quite right, and the way he quietly counters "san diego." Also, the Josh/Joshua thing. The way she flicks her tongue when he first says it, and she uses it against him later.

Her emotions in the episode and her batshit way of expressing them are so otm to me. She looks gorgeous, too. I have always liked her small-titted mermaid body, and here I think the nudity actually serves a purpose of showing the character in this kind of simply happy, unarmed state.

The way she comments on the "fixtures" and how everything is nice in the house, even the lemonade glass, seemed gross at first, but I realized I have had the same inner monologues...And yeah, the romper was wack, but I can see being a certain age and not really grasping how to dress for it--it suited the character. I don't know, I kind of love Hannah.

it def showed a lot more of inner hannah than I realized, in a really good way

the Josh/Joshua thing was straight out of Friends

every generation gets the Friends it deserves

was definitely feeling that monologue about happiness & loneliness p heavily