he's the best
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 05:01 (nine years ago) link
i feel bad for hating him so much at the beginning
https://pleasurephoto.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/man-ray-1968-photo-david-bailey.jpg
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 05:01 (nine years ago) link
whereever you are there you go
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:05 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^^ that's it!
― #Research (stevie), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 08:55 (nine years ago) link
Ray is good but honestly that episode was terrible and Elijah is a ray of sunshine and I need him in my life so I'm glad he's being featured so heavily. Jess is just so fucking unlikable.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 13:11 (nine years ago) link
well the good news is that this coming episode is another solo Bruce Eric Kaplan episode. he's done 2 on his own before; Video Games (the amazing one where they go to Jessa's Dad's place) in Season 2 and Flo (the one with Hannah's Grandmother in the hospital, pretty much the best episode of the show IMO) in Season 3. so .. yay i say.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Jess is p objectively horrible as a human being
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
occasionally the show tries to depict her as less horrible by giving her flashes of being brutally honest w people but it's all pretty gross on the whole
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
re Jessa - yeah I just can't. I know they try to do this but just everything about her bothers me so much. She's just . . . completely obnoxious.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
i like how hateable she is. as far as the commitment of the actress etc
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
was this posted already?
https://nygirlaustinworld.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/nepotism-girls-hbo-lena-dunhamjpg-1.jpg
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
Isn't that from back when the show first came out?
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
probably? i don't know. we were making some jokes at the office and this was sent in one of the emails
sorry, i'm slow with girls-related stuff
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:54 (nine years ago) link
Retrospect lol at the GoT reference: Dunham herself probably has been nude more often on Girls than anyone on that.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:59 (nine years ago) link
haha I am an idiot who did not realise Zosia Mamet was David Mamet's daughter.
― franny glasshole (franny glass), Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:50 (nine years ago) link
has Elijah evolved since s2, when he was the Most Annoying Fairy on Earth?
(awaiting s3 from library next week)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:04 (nine years ago) link
No
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:25 (nine years ago) link
Comic relief doesnt evolve
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:26 (nine years ago) link
that picture was from when the show was premiering, was dumb then and is dumb now
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:12 (nine years ago) link
"Nepotism" would be like if Lena Dunham was Judd Apatow's daughter and Marnie Williams was the daughter of an HBO exec. There are an awful lot of actors/writers/directors in the world who are children of other successful people.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link
I kind of want to make an "Inherent Nepotism" poster now:
starring JAMES BROLIN'S Son RIVER PHOENIX'S Brother SAM WATERSTON'S DaughterGAVIN NEWSOM'S Second Cousin
Directed by MINNIE RIPPERTON'S Son-In-Law
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:24 (nine years ago) link
shouldn't that me
GHOULARDI'S Son
?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:55 (nine years ago) link
Featuring Music from SCOTT YOUNG'S son
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:57 (nine years ago) link
^^Canadian posters only, obvs.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:58 (nine years ago) link
man alive tom
― #Research (stevie), Thursday, 5 February 2015 10:58 (nine years ago) link
you don't have comic "relief" when the show is a comedy
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 11:40 (nine years ago) link
mark my words, elijah will be the fonzie of girls
― #Research (stevie), Thursday, 5 February 2015 11:44 (nine years ago) link
I wonder how much sway Bad Company's drummer has at HBO. "Shit, boss, you'd better answer this one. It's the drummer from Bad Company. If we don't do what he asks we're toast."
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 5 February 2015 12:33 (nine years ago) link
it is more a testament to the accuracy of casting than nepotism. a show abt a group of people from privileged backgrounds is acted by a group of people from privileged backgrounds.
― pursuit of happiness (art), Thursday, 5 February 2015 13:53 (nine years ago) link
jessa's transatlantic accent is proper weird this season
― #Research (stevie), Thursday, 5 February 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
im still into marnies character but would not've minded jettisoning zosia & jessa for this season, def seems like they don't have much to do
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:13 (nine years ago) link
This show is not a comedy morbz
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
i've proper LOLLED several times of late tbh.
― #Research (stevie), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
The OMG privilege! thing with Jemima Kirke is that her mother is a Dellal; she's cousins with Alice and Olympia Dellal. LOL at the idea that the dad is the signifier of advantage on that poster.
― camp event (suzy), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
I have too but the show's willingness/eagerness to go for long joke-free stretches, sometimes entire episodes even, makes it p clear they expect the audience to be invested in the drama end of the characters' lives. which I am not tbh. p much everybody is loathsome, they work better as comedy.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
I always found it hard to care much about the characters too -- it's like the show lacks a certain awareness of just how easy it's going to be for these people to have perfectly fine lives in the long run, and expects us to be invested in the drama of whether they'll be ok. But there's still a certain amount of enjoyment in the often witty dialogue and just the sheer recognition factor of it being fairly accurate about certain aspects of the lives of people fairly close in age and geography to me.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
I really like a lot of Adam's lines this year. He continues to be one of the best parts of the show. The one where he's complaining about LDRs and talking on the phone and says something to the effect of "we talk about a bunch of dumb things i don't care about" hit p close to home. Also the one that was like "I have enough friends" --> "zero is enough?"
idk maybe i'm not critical enough but i'm enjoying this season enough. (only disappointments are not enough shosh and too mcuh marnie singing with dude who looks like shitty chris o'dowd)
xp ^ beaten to it
― otm rcuise (Will M.), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
really enjoying the season so far but hated the scene in the last one where hannah called out her classmates' shortcomings to their faces and they were all like 'LOL yup guilty as charged, u know me so well hannah', it seemed really unconvincing.
― #Research (stevie), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
yeah I was waiting for Hannah to overreach and say something explicitly racist about the black guy (which, come ON, is totally what would have realistically happened). the way she ended that little diatribe was v funny tho
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
the parts of the show that worked (in the first 2 seasons) were the comedy. Also comedy is not just explosive diarrhea / lady problems etc.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
yeah I was waiting for Hannah to overreach and say something explicitly racist about the black guy
i'm waiting for the other shoe to drop wrt to that character, because right now he is crazily badly written. and given the show's previous controversies concerning its lack of characters of colour, i'm really uncomfortable with how the show seems to suggest he's getting an easy ride from his classmates, for reasons other than his skills in writing.
― #Research (stevie), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
I agree w all this. but I am not exaggerating when I say there was basically nothing that was even trying to be funny in a few of these recent episodes until Elijah shows up.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
I dunno I think Hannah's time in Iowa is played for lols, falling off her bike, getting chased by the bat, relationship with classmates, bike getting stolen etc
― badg, Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
that was a different episode
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
ie the second one
but the first and third were p much joke-free except for Elijah
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
I haven't watched any of season three, where did they film her Iowa scenes?
― mh, Thursday, 5 February 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
New Paltz, I think.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 9 February 2015 05:24 (nine years ago) link
Someone I work with from Iowa City said they did some filming there (though she may have been fibbing).
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Monday, 9 February 2015 05:42 (nine years ago) link
In re: that Nepotism poster-thingie. That's not nepotism, unless all those named relatives were in charge of the hiring for the show. That's merely straight up privilege, coming from a family with connections.
― Aimless, Monday, 9 February 2015 06:04 (nine years ago) link
this show has definitely entered the super-stupid soap opera phase
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 February 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link