GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

i mean i totally understanding not "getting" it or it not being your cup of tea, but actually having a big issue with it?

I am 'getting' the characters more and more and it still makes me laugh so whatever...

i think bc of a few factors (the kind of coverage it has gotten, its zeitgeistiness, her 'voice of generation' comment, etc) ppl have felt implicated by the depiction of characters in the show. so there's a lot of defensiveness around it. most non-millenials i've spoken to who dislike it are more blase 'it was boring' about it. millenials feel repulsed tho, which is kinda understandable.

i know a couple of woman who find the show depressing, which translates for them as a kind of hate, but have only watched a bit of ep 1. they'll come around...

yeah women i'm talking about are millenials. either hits a bit close to home or they're like 'fuck these girls, i'm not them'

so i guess that makes me happy re: this show to be lower-end-gen-x and a sometimes tragically observational writer type

i think bc of a few factors (the kind of coverage it has gotten, its zeitgeistiness, her 'voice of generation' comment, etc) ppl have felt implicated by the depiction of characters in the show. ...millenials feel repulsed tho, which is kinda understandable.

oh, that makes sense. lol, i'm old, so it never even occurred to me that people might relate to it in that way. i just get to laugh at other people's problems.

Even with all that I find it difficult to understand strong feelings about this show one way or the other. It's just a group of post-college young people in New York who say funny things but otherwise don't do much of anything. What's there to feel strongly about?

I always envisioned 20 somethings living in NYC as being a lot better looking and more hip than these squares.

Kind of the point tbh

This show reminds me of Degrassi in so many ways.

<3 degrassi

that's a comparison i haven't heard that makes sense.
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i am usually pretty susceptible to I HATE THIS BECAUSE [EXTERNALITIES] kinds of feelings, so i've been making an effort to not do that w/ this, and it seems to be working because i've happily watched every episode and recommended it to people. i laugh more at it than i laugh at most shows.

^ me too, and that's the only important yardstick for sitcoms

Oh, I am too with certain things and the two I mentioned DEFINITELY are. That's why they came back and sheepishly apologized. It got kind of heated last weekend because I was totally incredulous at their level of hate and dismissal after TEN MINUTES especially coming from a pair with some pretty fucking questionable taste in television.

I can see people hating something that seems to hit close to home, but sometimes it's even easier to hate something that comes close to hitting that mark, but fails on some account. I think in my past I've been very guilty of the latter.

I wish more art "hit close to home," tbh.

lol

http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2012/05/18/tv/web_photos/18.1T102.girls--300x450.jpg

Girlish Gambino

man she looks SO happy to be hanging with him

weird how there hadnt been many paparazzi shots of girls until the day when donald glover was on set

I HATE THIS BECAUSE (EXTERNALITIES)

this motto shd be displayed over gateway to internet

haha yeah thats a good one

the "externalities" part should be spoken in a booming voice-of-god reverb

Who is that person?

donald glover aka childish gambino aka a voice of a generation

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i just saw peter's scolari

omg

i'll never be able to like this character now that i know she backs into parking spaces

great episode

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"class of 06"

I will continue watching this show only if they promise to never say that out loud again.

This Adam guy, I like him. No idea why. Pharmacy guy looked like the pale weird guy from Twilight. Lovely episode!

oh and loooooooool at the benefit. Pretty Girl Rock performance was A+

Adam seems much less hateful now.

yeah I'm not sure how bc he's still pretty much the same as when we met him. maybe that's why? like, he just "is".

the tao of adam or some bullshit

We see more of Dunham liking him? Being into the seemingly creepo shit he was pulling during sex?

true. lol @ her sticker finger up pharmacy boy's butt

By this point if Adam ever puts a shirt on or leaves his apartment it'll seem really weird.

feel like any time ive tried to pursue quirky seemingly-mismatched relationships where im also somewhat curious about what a person's deal is, my initial instincts were right & we were in fact mismatched

not saying this doesn't work in this show, but that it contrasts w/ my experiences or something

anyway good ep

disappointing guest appearance from luka modric this week

I would still like to see this programme.

omg scolari peen!

We just saw a different side of Adam, I think. The one that clues us into why she likes him.

those of you pitching a bitch about how horrible and evil the mom was for wanting to not bankroll hannah's ongoing peter pan syndrome might want to take a step back

haha yeah i was wondering what miccio thought of sundays ep

I wondered the same thing.