GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

ya i agree. also why do they have a spare room in their apt?

it's a two bedroom

So every show created and written by women has to be a feminist thing--such a fucking lame narrow view of the world

Maybe she's trying to write an interesting show and not make it be the feminist answer to anything

maybe you were trying to write an interesting post and not make it the troll answer to anything

good one, asshat

more femiNAZI garbage from ilxor.com. when will you cover mens rights?

I just watched the first 4 eps and now I feel bad that Adam is really the only character that doesn't annoy the hell out of me in some way.

But not really. They're all just so far gone and obnoxious to varying degrees but I find him (and Ray) the least obnoxious and easiest to identify with. That said, I can't stop watching.

u watching the new seaz or just staring the series now?

No, I've seen whole thing up until now I just hadn't watched any of this season until today.

beer in the office fridge at gq

kevin's a regular firecracker

did anyone watch this? i didn't like the scenes with marnie and ray. their interactions seem to have been better written in the past.

{spoiler alert}

What happened to Adam's sister?!

How do you end the previous episode on a cliffhanger of her getting kicked out and Adam racing out to look for her in a panic, and the follow-up episode makes no mention of her and everything is hunky-dory in the place?

This is truly the surrealist-absurdist/thumbing-nose-at-notions-of-continuity "Louie Season 3" of Girls.

I liked this episode! The GQ crew are all good characters

shoshona's sex scene was lol

This season started off quite poorly, but this episode was great.

I kind of have a love/hate thing for Shosh.

Brief but innaresting article abt the typeface in the titles

http://www.printmag.com/imprint/type-casting-the-deco-inspired-typography-of-lena-dunhams-girls/

I always just assumed it was Neutraface

Oh! Here is more insight about why it is not Neutraface:

http://pureefantastico.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/girls-and-neutraface/

http://pureefantastico.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/jne_girlsneutracomparison.png

idgi, why was it necessary to tweak it that subtly?

the Shoshi Games

i'm in love

I really hate this show now, take back whatever I said on this thread

go on?

I don't know, maybe it's very subjective. I work with people just a little younger than this age now and watching the show kinda makes me feel creepy like I'm eavesdropping on a part in a dorm or something. I'm sure I have old-guy stuff I should rather be doing. But the recent episodes I've seen have just been airless and bad. I feel life passing me by as I watch it.

a party

I also no longer think Lena Dunham is smart or fun. Well, I definitely don't think she's fun and if she's smart, she's not being generous with that gift at present.

i would be happy to outsource some of the blame for what this show is like now to a kind of Apatowization, & a misread of its original value, but yeah it is frustrating to see it vaguely resemble & then operate totally differently from the impulses that made it so smart. that there's a season-three rearrangement of existing characters into a new couple just seems like the basest most clasically moorless move.

last episode i thought the sympathetic music when hannah had the "oh no i might stop writing" realization was jarring. like we were being asked to genuinely relate to that sort of anxiety, instead of looking askance at it.

i kinda stopped taking this show seriously until i get to the next ep that dunham wrote solo. is that happening?

Whoa, I really liked tonight's episode. I mean, it wasn't subtle at all in how it basically addressed the complaints people have about every character (interestingly, Jessa got the least of the crossfire) but I think the show's been building up to something like this for awhile now and it's something the show needs.

Also, is Danny Strong gay???

I kind of lost my steam on this show after the first few this season. I have also had the thoughts stated above that (1) the show might be drifting as it becomes "apatowized" or (2) all those times where I wasn't sure exactly how smart and self-aware dunham was really being might be resolved in favor of less smart and less self-aware

I don't know if tonight's episode indicated self-awareness or just an ability to read comment sections.

Audibly cheered at some of Shoshanna's lines this week.

it was funny, enjoyed seeing everyone call each other on their shit, and loved Hannah relentlessly hanging out in her swimmers all ep

kind of a disconcerting "Friends"-like sitcommy vibe to this episode. not necessarily a bad thing but everyone drunkenly calling each other out feels a little rote at this point.

kind of a disconcerting "Friends"-like sitcommy vibe to this episode. not necessarily a bad thing but everyone drunkenly calling each other out feels a little rote at this point.

Also, is Danny Strong gay???

1. There was a whole Friends-related motif in this week's (excellent) episode of Looking.

2. DS is also playing a psychotic, abusive prison guard in a women's prison on the current season of Justified, if you're inclined to read into casting.

Okay, so a bit of wishful thinking on my part (he's kinda cute imo) but it's less of a stretch for him to actually be gay because of a role on Girls than for him to be psychotic and abusive in real life because of a role on Justified.

But yes, it's probably mostly wishful thinking.

<3 this episode <3

http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/tv/2014-02-16/203f7400-9764-11e3-bb49-8d79c730f8d4_Girls-Dance-Routine-Take2.gif

Yeah super loved this ep. Cannot deny the power of nilsson musical routine

xp, actually I take back what I said, I finally watched ep 4 thru 6 and mostly really enjoyed them. Although I agree that the Ray and Marnie thing was fucking stoopid.

Old man ray

Old man ray

Ha (or duh) there's a candidate for the "puns that you had missed" thread.

eli's 2-faced bitchiness is next level

and i love danny strong forever <3

I think I enjoy this show more when I stop expecting any kind of radical critique out of it. There's an Apatovian conservatism at the heart of the show.

pretty much

episode felt very much like a precocious college assignment.

I don't know if it's because I had just woken up when I watched it & was still kinda groggy, but good god was the pacing of this ep relentless or what?! I'm not sure I would be as charitable as Dunham, who described it as "wall-to-wall fun scenes" in her weird post-credits behind-the-scenes interview...

OTOH, it definitely captured some of the stifling feeling of a stay at the beach, so kudos