GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

she's the obscure broad

Obscure Broads=good band name.

She's the Obscure Broad=good '80s college rock band name

I only watch TV drunk so how the hell would I know the characters' names?

― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, May 3, 2012 8:50 PM (1 hour ago)

andrei rublev is the name of the protagonist of tarkovsky's 'andrei rublev'

which is to say, he expected a modicum of sobriety from its viewers

i can't remember the names of any of the characters of girls

i can't remember the names of their parents either

So basically a Russian niche market

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sobriety? sure

It's not like she made it hard, nak, the first names all start with the same letter as the last. I think this is some kind of commentary on twee white girls' names or something about generations all 'cleverly' getting stuck with their parents' same naming shtick.

martha, marcy, mae and marlene?

i have seen michael mann's crepuscular 2004 masterpiece 'collateral' maybe ten or twelve times, before the last time i saw it i couldn't have told you the name of the protagonists

i couldn't have told you the name of the actors' fathers either, since english lacks patronymics, although from memory thomas cruise mapother is like the IInd or IIIrd iteration of thomas cruise mapothers, so i could have cheated there

i couldn't tell you the names of ANY of the characters on game of thrones except for the dead guy being tony stark and the pimp is pinky

IVth iteration, apparently

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/learnvest/one-girl-speaks-out-why-i_b_1477878.html

I feel trolled.

lol what is that

jeez it took her a year to find a decent job and an apartment she could afford. i was nervous there for a minute. glad her harrowing experience ended well.

you can really rent an apartment in greenwich village for a thousand bucks a month? i want one.

still don't understand why more people don't just sell pot to supplement their incomes. it ain't rocket science.

Or rob banks! It's where the money is!

haha, she had a plan for her life after college and it didn't pan out, and she was sad about it. WHAT A LOSER.

my sympathy for people who repeatedly reference their "$200,000 education" is approximately nil

your hardman stance is a mighty steed and it will take you far in life.

Everyone has something to say about Girls -- I've even had several male friends chime in on how impossible it is for them to relate on any level.

this was my favorite part:

HBO's new series, Girls, has caught a lot of backlash for depicting 20-somethings who live off their parents after college and struggle to find work in New York City.

very controversial premise.

"haha, she had a plan for her life after college and it didn't pan out, and she was sad about it. WHAT A LOSER."

but it did pan out! pretty quickly! well, she has to live in brooklyn, so, i guess that's kinda sad :(

i had a plan for my life after college that involved getting paid millions of dollars to dispense advice to world leaders and attend chichi parties. i too am sad this hasn't panned out and i hope u all feel sympathy for me.

my sympathy for people who repeatedly reference their "$200,000 education" is approximately nil

Well, I suppose we're often talking about loans here, which is basically like investing in yourself, so I reserve the right to feel bad for folks left paying that off with no good job prospects. Or, hell, I know people who work hard and still have tons of student loans to pay off. No different than house payments, car, etc.

Unless someone paid her tuition, in which case, yeah, who the fuck cares about your lame problems.

watched the first few episodes last night with my gf. fucking great! by far the funniest sitcom i've seen since arrested development & curb your enthusiasm. don't know who lena dunham is outside the show, but it's impressive that she's got creator, writer, director and star credits on this thing. helps explain why it feels so specific, personal and honest.

it's sort of horrible watching these smart and basically decent women make incredibly horrible life decisions, but that's also where most of the comedy comes from. holy shit @ hannah's rapey pederast "boyfriend" and that douchebag marnie was chasing after in the art gallery. "give less of a shit", bleah.

the other two girls are kind of irritating (note pavlovian avoidance of "annoying"), but enjoyably so. can't help be reminded of sex and the city, of course, and also of tina fey's general comic sensibility. lena = new tv hero.

i don't particularly care how "entitled" they seem (they do), or much they were or weren't fictionally given by their fictional parents. my interest in the show and my ability to sympathize with its characters isn't a product of fictional economic circumstances.

this show's sensibility is like the anti-tina fey imo

If this show were about entitled male 20 something slackers, you'd be saying it sucks. You're all reverse sexists!

this show's sensibility is like the anti-tina fey imo

weird, cuz i see a lot of similarity (with liz lemon, especially). self-doubt, self-mockery, irony & and stark, sarcastic meta-commentary on life as it goes by, proudly warts-and-all nerdiness & imperfection, bad boyfriends, urban life, reduced expectations, feminism that doesn't want to read as "feminist", etc.

stark = snark

unrelated, but man, hannah got burned so hard by her ex in that last episode. hurt just watching it.

If this show were about entitled male 20 something slackers, you'd be saying it sucks. You're all reverse sexists!
--Josh in Chicago

I love Workaholics!

Curious how many people on this thread hated Girls and loved that show actually.

I've literally never heard of that show, tbh.

workaholics is so funny. funnier than girls. but its more unreal and madcap.

I like Girls and only made it ten minutes into one episode of Workaholics.

The League, OTOH, is brilliant

i still like girls though.

Right the style of humor is much different obv. But I can't imagine people polluting the Workaholics thread with complaints about how they can't get into the show cuz they can't empathize with the privileged backgrounds of the characters or whatever.

i'd say i like workaholics and girls about equally at the moment

also, is there a workaholics thread?

Not sure that the Workaholics thread is better or worse for that actually.

workaholics gets crazier as it goes along.

girls is no louis either. i know lena is a louis fanatic. louis is next level stuff. and kinda genius. but again i still like girls...

(its no 30 rock or parks & rec either as far as half hour shows go...)

The League, OTOH, is brilliant

You mean the fantasy football show? I thought it was hilarious. Went through all the eps in, like, two days, it was so funny.

league's great

workaholics is great

I hate women