GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

the awkward sex/ridiculous boyfriend - it didn't click for me, maybe it was that the boyfriend was too cartoonishly a dick and that the scene was neither funny nor dramatic?
Flat is a fine way to play things, IMO, but not when you're also writing really broad secondary characters there should be punchlines/payoffs or something.

peter scolari was never in undeclared, are you thinking of loudon wainwright?

there's this thing where in tv i always feel like ppl do less drug than irl and that was the same here but it definitely seemed like a realistic version of people being bad at drugs like when he asks his gf if its ok to have some opium T

― judith, Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:39 PM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah part of the dynamic i think is that they want to be all bohemian but are really kinda square

yeah these people are definitely like "young professionals," i can't really imagine how this world intersects with table's tbh

many young professionals are much better at drugs than that tbf

iirc table hates "middle class ppl problems"

i can't really imagine how this world intersects with table's tbh

― judith, Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:42 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

college, non profits, art openings

i feel bad that the episode is being asked to carry the weight of the world (it's unclear whether the mom is a prominent character to be developed or just a plot device at this point), but hey, the point of making TV is for people to watch and care

we're probably never seeing the parents again, right?

many young professionals are much better at drugs than that tbf

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:43 PM (3 minutes ago)

her riot grrl body image tattoo solution reminds me so much of the lamp hipster/alt dichotomy and i feel like in a post occupy world these ppl hang out less and less

wait idk why i quoted that there.

oh i meant to c+p max

somewhat analogous to the sixties radical/hippie split <<just spitballin

can someone link to "the lamp hipster/alt dichotomy" ?

the actor who plays the sadsack boyfriend is gr8, i think.

where do i go to read this lamp hipster treatise?

lol xp

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=3410038&boardid=77&threadid=89067

there's a lot there but ok i think i get it

The truth is that Girls feels less like portrait of a generation than a napkin doodle of bougie urbane privilege. All consoling cupcakes and winking and parents-who-are-both-of-them-professors, it’s like the origin story for a new breed of Cathy, ack-ing her way through professional and personal malaise and urgently nudging you all, “Yeah, right? You too, right?!” Halfway through the first episode I expected Lena Dunham to use the phrase “go girl” in air quotes and then turn and wink at the camera like she’s Zack fucking Morris. It’s lousy.

http://maisonneuve.org/blog/2012/04/17/why-hbos-girls-unfunny-vacuum-pandering-privileged/

My wife said, "so this main girl is basically Liz Lemon if she got fired from her first comedy gig?".

that dude tweeted angrily about it for like 24 straight hours yday xp

what feels like the portrait of a generation

lol he actually went w/ack cathy

fuck that dude

To paraphrase something my girlfriend said—yes, I have a girlfriend, despite the fact that I’m an agent of the patriarchy who doesn’t like Girls—this show is lifestyle porn for the willfully miserable, indulgent escapism for people who think they need to be unhappy to be real.

wincing r/n

i like when he quotes his girlfriend so we know his opinion is valid

ha xpost

lol i haven't seen this show, what am i even doing

is she directing all the episodes or just writing?

wikipedia has her listed as director of the first three, solo writer of the first five and co-writer of the sixth and seventh show.

seventh episode seems sure to provoke commentary: "Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident"

wiki also says this is ep 7 - "Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident" lol xp

we shd prob just lock this thread now

when does j0n w1ll1ams guest?

i cannot wait for the cackcident!

Dunham co-wrote all ten episodes of the first season and directed five.

Michael Penn does the musical score for Girls, maybe the episode title is a nod to his album MP4: Days Since a Lost Time Crackcident

maybe it's about a butt crack

maybe

"that's like not being on facebook"
"i'm not on facebook"
"you're so classy"

haha aw i kind of love that li'l mamet girl

"you're so fucking classy", i think it was

is the tall one brian williams' daughter?

"and of course when i go to work i try to wear my miranda hat."

i thought zosia mamet was pretty funny, much better actress than her stepmom too

damn, sneak dissin on rebecca pidgeon

the look she got on her face when she was like "sometimes a little samantha comes out" <3

xp poor rebecca pidgeon

her mom lindsay crouse is a good actress

poor poor rebecca pigeon lol xp

i wonder if she h8s her dad

oh, lindsay crouse is her mom! lindsay crouse is rad.