GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

pretty sure marnie's friend mispronounced "dgaf"

Kind of struck us recently that the Brooklyn they live in is oddly sanitized even for present-day Brooklyn. I mean you never seem to see working class or poor people or immigrants in neighborhoods that still have a fair number of working class and poor people and immigrants. It just seems odd to me -- even 25-year-olds who live in a "bubble" in Brooklyn still tend to at least see/encounter people from other walks of life or w/e. You also never see a homeless person, and there's never the slightest specter of unsafety anywhere.

so much to answer for

hurting otm. i saw this really scary guy in brooklyn recently. he was walking on the same street that i was walking on.

this is kind of my favorite season so far tbh

Yup

This is one of the most embarrassing things I have ever read (could not get through it):
http://www.bkmag.com/2014/03/03/a-man-among-girls-adam-driver/

I mean you never seem to see working class or poor people or immigrants in neighborhoods that still have a fair number of working class and poor people and immigrants

Woody Dunham

yeah actually the next thing we talked about was how Woody Allen movies are similar in that regard

I liked this last episode, but somehow they always pull the trick of making the show's cynicism and it's sentimentality seem cheap and hollow. of course the sisters fight over the ring, and of course they vow to spend more time together. a really aimless season so far.

http://oystermag.com/lena-dunham-x-archie-comics

Jughead afflicted with priapism, hijinks ensue

"I'm gonna leave the continent of Africa on this hamburger!"

featuring at least one more lead actress of color than the show apparently

never noticed how much marnie looks like/acts like/basically is veronica tbh

nah Veronica is much more unapologetically greedy/materialistic

you don't think marnie is greedy/materialistic? seems like a key character trait; her getting back with her boyfriend in a serious way when he had a big startup company comes to mind immediately.

she is, but she's in denial about it. Like, she would never admit that she loves money. Veronica would be all "HOORAY MONEY!"

It's not that she's materialistic, she's just somebody who cannot imagine her world not containing specific material things most people have to ~work~ for.

so it's not materialism if you're used to it?

I was kinda totally stunned @ Hannah's experience of actually earning money for the first time in her life and it taking her, what, 25 years before she went through the process of "I worked and then I got paid for my work and with this money I am to be self-sufficient"

In my twenties I, James Franco, worked at McDonald's.

I really liked Hannah's cousin

I liked this last episode, but somehow they always pull the trick of making the show's cynicism and it's sentimentality seem cheap and hollow. of course the sisters fight over the ring, and of course they vow to spend more time together. a really aimless season so far.

― ryan, Wednesday, March 5, 2014 1:36 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

This is true but I felt like these scenes at least had the grace to be well-written and acted, unlike the earlier episode about "Death" this season

I agree!

christ yeah the writing in this episode was A1.

just clocked that this episode's sole writer was the same guy who did the Jessa-and-her-Dad episode from Season 2.

Strawberries, champagne, a dildo which I already destroyed through overuse.

Saw Dunham on Graham Norton (from January, I think) this weekend. As well as it being gratifying to see her describe all the characters as "thinking they're better people than they are," and that the show ought to be accessible to the audience because "everyone can identify with being a douchebag," it was GREAT to get to view a couple of minutes of the show with a live studio audience loling. Would love there to be a DVD option to watch it with a laugh track.

Loved this episode, loved it. Straight up antic fizz.

true detective hype obscuring the fact that this is the best show on tv rn

excellent episode. hannah, you're gonna fuck it all up.

this was pretty funny, some great expressions from Zosia Mamet during that dinner scene

Yeah those were the high point. That cross expression as she's listing all the laudable things about Dot.

def the best episode this show has done.

def up there.

i kinda stopped watching when i realized i was forcing myself to sit through each of this season's eps. The current one is a serious step up?

i don't think its like this show at all, and i don't know if it makes for a good serial format, and i don't even think there was anything impressive with the characters or development, but there were very solid set pieces.

im on episode 7, but i just wanted to say that the best moment of this season so far was "i think about you all the time! what's wrong with her, what's she eatin', who's she mad at"

cried thru the entirety of episode 9 despite the fact that it was not that great

just hit close to home

im really glad eli(jah?) is back on the show. it seems like a lot of people are uncomfortable with his character as an unfortunate/irritating gay friend stereotype which i totally understand but he also reminds me of so many irritating irl friends that i begrudgingly miss! so i kind of love him

I haven't seen the latest but I too love Elijah for similar reasons.

i found ep 9 v stressful and hard to watch with all the horrible confrontations between the 3 sisters

Some of her best ever dialogue in that episode (did she write it?)

Episode 9 was written by Bruce Eric Kaplan[0]. Why am I just recently finding out about Felicity Jones? She is absolutely beautiful.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Girls_episodes#Season_3_.282014.29

i liked her as dot but im very annoyed of jessa's coke friend. bye. is he gone? i did like his short scene with shosh tho

wait - i mean the scene where he assumes shes on coke

good episode i thought.

Always glad to see Natalie Morales. She's great in Trophy Wife.