haha did you like it or not
i didnt really like it - ive seen a couple of other episodes i like better and i think theres some interesting stuff going on in the show but its all pretty qualified and hedged, like its not obviously 'good' or 'authentic' or 'funny' but it has flashes of being all those things? ive been thinking a lot about 'freaks & geeks' as a worthwhile comparison point rather than 'louie' or satc, like this facsimile of the real world thats more compelling for so obviously not being exactly the real world or w/e
haha im supposed to write about abt it but i dont really want to, everything ive read abt this show is so wrong-headed and terrible, idk
― Masonic Butt (Lamp), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
I would rather live in the louie-nyc than the girls-nyc it just doesn't exist
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
xp
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
i lived in nyc for ~13 years and it never looked like either depiction. it never looked like louie's NY, but it still looked more like his NY than Girls' NY and I lived in NY partially at the same ages as the protagonist in Girls (and even had internships in the media). also, i think the body-hate stuff goes beyond her negative self-image. i think some of the ways she's shot eating food (the spaghetti with her parents + the cupcake in the bathtub immediately come to mind) and the sex scene were particularly degrading
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
it seems like exactly the same joke as the credits for louie, people like to eat
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't seen it and don't really care, but just coming out as someone who knows Lena personally— she's a pretty rad person. and she works hard. and finally, in real life, she is fucking hilarious.
which means, to me, that while i hope this succeeds, if it doesn't, then meh, not really that big a deal.
― Sophomore subs are the new Smith lesbians. (the table is the table), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
wait so you think she is hilarious and rad and you really want her to succeed but you aren't willing to spend 30 minutes watching her show
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
so u dont care to watch this thing by this person you know and think is rad and hilarious lol xp
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
i don't have anything personal against her and it does seem like she's very talented and has a distinctive voice which is obv partially why i'm having such a strong reaction to the ep. xxp
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
lmao table
― max, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
you can know someone is rad and hilarious without caring about what they do to make a living.
― Sophomore subs are the new Smith lesbians. (the table is the table), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
"i know her, she rules, but I can't be bothered to watch a show, don't care if it actually does well" definitely does seem like the material she's feeding on
― da croupier, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
Cassavetes NYC vs. Woody NYC
― the hairy office thing (Eazy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
I do my best to seek out things that I know will be rad and/or hilarious
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
mad about you to me is the most realistic depiction of ny ever
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
lag∞nebb
― buzza, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photos/rerunshow-ds2.jpg
― the hairy office thing (Eazy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
― Masonic Butt (Lamp), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.doubletroublepublishing.com/pc/catalog/MM52.jpg
― buzza, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
If she's funny in reality, she's not very good (thus far) at translating her comic sensibility into actually-funny film/TV imo.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
tbf most funny people never make funny tv shows
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
IRLs
― da croupier, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
kind of hate arguments about how accurate TV is when it comes to real placesthe worst is watching any show set in NY with anyone who lived there
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
i dont think it really matters, but its interesting to look at
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
new yorkers are the worst people tho its true
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah again I don't think the fact that this is realistic looking makes it better, it's just novel I guess. fake nycs seem like better places to live, usually.
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
yo iatee, i remember this one time we were talking and you were all like: "ya louis has a heart and is hopeful cause he is like a millionaire who lives in an imaginary nyc where you walk your kids to school and there's nobody on the street"
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
I guess Seinfeld/CYE really are the better comparisons in tone here (or maybe I just think that because I dislike both) - if Seinfeld could have gotten away with the relentless misanthropy of the first episode, he probably would have.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
Louis's millionaire lifestyle is as much a fantasy to me as living entirely on money from one's parents, FWIW.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
fuck white people
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
like I can't help but think that
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
HBO needs
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Jeffersons-title.jpg
― the hairy office thing (Eazy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
eh, that wasn't really my cup of tea...mostly because it wasn't very Lena. i think Tiny Furniture is more Lena.
― Sophomore subs are the new Smith lesbians. (the table is the table), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
ha u just watched it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
he's talking about the jeffersons
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
I was driving like an hour ago w/ a friend and when we saw this billboard at a light he asked me if I saw this yet, and I was like nah it's just some rich white girl new york shit and he was like oh man I thought it would be about awkward girls making their way through the world
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
and I was like nah I haven't seen it but I think its just some rich white shit
"I think it's like stillman's shit without anything worthwhile, but then again I didn't see it, I've only seen the billboard"
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
then what did he say?
― boxall, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
he said do u want to get white castle
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
and then i was like naw thats just some white castle
I said "I'm sick of this bullshit I can't believe you lent me wonder boys"
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
because I was really sad about some shit and he came by and dropped off that terrrrible movie so I would have soem sort of light diversion
sometimes i think your posts should be in comic book thought bubbles
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
webcomics i'd think
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
BOYS
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:04 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
the 'rich white new yorker' criticism bugs me.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
i think some of the ways she's shot eating food (the spaghetti with her parents + the cupcake in the bathtub immediately come to mind) and the sex scene were particularly degrading
that is kinda the point. i don't think it really needs punchlines. this maybe corroborates anyone who's saying that she's just preaching to the choir, but it's sorta enough that she's just rendering general shitty experiences; a lot of tiny furniture was about confronting and frustrating our ideas of how it should pan out & how it actually does play out, her fucking over her nice friend, her making bad but appealing decisions, just the slow undramatic unwinding of things.
i thought this was great!, anyway. i like the beeswax guy talking about mcdonalds, he is really honing a kind of irresistable-charming-asshole typecasting thing.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
should have been father-and-stepmother. the mom made no sense
― fart bucket (toandos), Monday, April 16, 2012 2:08 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
rofl, "mom was too mean, she should have been a stepmom, then it wouldve made sense"
― max, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 11:14 (twelve years ago) link