GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

I do like how everyone is not very attractive. Very 80s.

"demands to be taken care of for the sake of her art. which is totally consistent with the idea that an artist has to be devoted to her art (no time to work to support herself), but classically that's the kind of thing that an artist would demand and receive on the basis of demonstrated talent"

This is kind of stupid - she is (or was) working, & in a job that could pay off for her long-term as well. They're just not paying her. I'm not of that world but it's probably a lot easier for your demonstrated talent to be rewarded if you have friends and connections at a publishing house.

Lena Dunham, creator of HBO's new angsty hit, says she would totally love to see the gals from Sex and the City pop up on her show.

"We acknowledge that this show couldn't exist without Sex and the City," Dunham told me when Girls first premiered last month at South by Southwest. "These are girls who were raised on Sex and the City. It's a part of why they're all moving to New York."

But SJP & Co. wouldn't have to work too hard. "Maybe we can have something like Miranda [Cynthia Nixon] drinking a smoothie and walking by the gym," Dunham said. "But maybe it's something you save for the series' finale. You know, it's this amazing moment where they're just sitting at a table in the background."

Besides, Dunham, cracked, "I feel like they probably come with a hair and makeup team we can't afford."

This is kind of stupid - she is (or was) working, & in a job that could pay off for her long-term as well. They're just not paying her. I'm not of that world but it's probably a lot easier for your demonstrated talent to be rewarded if you have friends and connections at a publishing house.

thanks, but if it's stupid it's the way she presents herself to her parents. she has considered the idea of getting a paying job to replace her non-paying one, but (a) she needs one too quickly and (b) she doesn't want a job that doesn't suit her sense of college-educated dignity. but even though she has presumably been supporting herself on her parents' money while spending time working, so she COULD give up the time at a paid job while spending another two years writing her book, what she asks for is to be supported by them just to finish it. i took the implication to be that she planned to do so without looking for another non-paying or paying job.

If they hadn't cut her off, she wouldn't have found herself quitting/being fired from her internship. Maybe she was kidding herself that it would eventually become a salaried job, but it's not a preposterous idea, is it?

I am sympathetic to people, college-educated or not, who want work that provides them with dignity. Less so to those who suggest they go work at Mcdonalds.

bill simmons liked the first episode

show don't tell

first half of 2nd episode: lot of sex, funny job interview

this episode was WAY better

much better, could still do without the virgin

yep, if comparisons 2 louie continue, i can actually see/get it after this ep

God bless her; this is great.
"i'm gonna leave a map of africa under your arm"

Terrible pilot: 1000 posts
Good episode: +/- 50?

most of us probably haven't seen it yet since it aired at 11:30 on HBO so even if you've got HBO GO you're probably not going to see it until later in the week, and if you're torrenting it you're almost def not watching it by 11:00 AM Monday morning.

allison williams is v v pretty

altho it also seems like they have her wearing a lot of makeup, maybe 2 contrast w/ lenas character, make her look even more plain

i don't really dig her so much, too much makeup and gawky without, xp
though I started seeing some serious cuteness in this episode with the other three principals

so Prospect Heights bars are good enough to name check but only if they are placed in the wrong neighborhood? now I see how it is, GIRLS. where is Max on this issue

thought the one line of the episode that best accomplished what they are trying to do (go someplace uncomfortable but still have it be really funny) was in the scene where allison williams was complaining about the british girl not showing at the clinic and hannah sez "i know right, so rude, after you took the trouble to plan out this wonderful abortion for her"

My Generation's Awkwardness About The Location of Prospect Heights Bars

lol at "not office okay"; I wouldn't have hired her either

that was some v forced banter tho the most apropo setting for forced banter is prob a job interview tbh

eh, i thought he was an awkward guy who was taken with the idea that a cute girl found his life so interesting and then she went and botched it by getting too close, too specific and too rapesque

as opposed to r-a-p-e-y

Yeah, that's not any better.

do we have a rapey autoreplace now?

that scene was also full-on larry david, prob another reason i didnt 100% love it

I liked how she doubled down on the joke after it had already bombed, all-or-nothing like.

Terrible pilot: 1000 posts
Good episode: +/- 50?

We OD'd on it last week. Boring now. While that is partially true, mostly I just missed it last night and it's not on HBO go yet. I started watching Oz instead.

Oz so good.

new girls is on HBO Go now btw

hope s.2 of GIRLS they are all put in prison

Will watch tonight.

you tv-paying people and your applications, see you when this is on dvd or something. pssh.

^^

First time I've had tv in about 3 years. Enjoying the hell out of it so nurrrr.

ditto, can't remember life before cable

about to live w/out cable, debating buying a XBox and using my parents HBO Go account or just hitting TPB

I guess I could pirate this but I don't know if I want to be that guy. Is it just me or is the demographic this show is mirroring the least likely to actually watch it on HBO?

I'd say about half my friends have dropped cable in lieu of broadcast tv/netflix/hulu/etc

At 11:30 on Sunday, this is a show least likely to be watched by anyone.

recorded at 9 or 9:30 CST, which makes it 10 or 10:30 Eastern, not abnormal for HBO's Sunday night lineup

that was really good

i'm not a character in one of your novels; stop staring at my face so hard!

watched this last night

did not like this TV show

this ep was great, really well done, tighter than the pilot, better/clearer satire
i wasn't sure with the first ep, but now i can say: lena dunham is really fucking funny

i loved how the doctor dealt with hannah - perfect

yeah even though "maybe i'm not scared of AIDS. maybe what i a really am is...wanting...AIDS" made me laugh harder than anything else in the episode, "that is an incredibly silly thing to say" was the perfect response.

i have not read this thread or watched this show but it doesn't look like this column was posted which is weird bc it's ta-nehisi coates and everything he writes should be posted

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/girls-through-the-veil/256154/

it was posted, but it is probably buried at this point

signed, GIRLS thread secretary.

yes, the GIRLS thread is pretty on tops of things
if you know what i mean