GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

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.

I was getting so IA with Hannah bcz the whole time she was talking to that coffee girl I was like YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GETTING THAT PRESCRIPTION FOR YOUR MOTHER, YOUNG LADY, QUIT LOLLYGAGGING and then I realized that I am lol old

her mom was in agony for fuck's sake! she shoulda been moving faster!
this ep felt STUPID real to me; i remember the visiting the small town ohmygod what am i even doing here shit
"i'm home home, like i'm looking at a goo goo dolls poster right now"

I can't remember any of the lines but that pep-talk she gave herself in the mirror was pretty funny

good scolari woody allen impresh

"you're from new york, so you're just naturally more interesting than anyone else"
^we really do believe this btw

"the worst things that you say are better than anything that other people say"

I was getting so IA with Hannah bcz the whole time she was talking to that coffee girl I was like YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GETTING THAT PRESCRIPTION FOR YOUR MOTHER, YOUNG LADY, QUIT LOLLYGAGGING and then I realized that I am lol old

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

her mom was in agony for fuck's sake! she shoulda been moving faster!

No, you're not. She's pretty awful to her parents a lot of the time in a way that makes me cringe. I mean I know that teenagers go through stuff but at 24 you would think she could stop being a complete bitch to two people who obviously love her a lot.

I think there's some kind of crossover point, or there was for me: in college etc you're just so on your own trip and why is everyone making life so difficult and ugh everything and your parents end up in the firing line of that logic and then, I dunno, somewhere in my late 20's/30's I look back and I'm just like, ugh I can't believe I did those things to my parents.

nothing quite as awful, but you know all that unthinking stuff of you say you're coming home for the weekend and then spend all your time drinking with friends when they had hoped to spend time with you etc

Yeah, I definitely did some of that too but I think I'd mostly outgrown that by 24. Also, she just seems to have a really shitty attitude with them like 90% of the time.

definitely. are they both her parent-parents, or is the mom her step-mother?

that's totally her birthmother. the quick edit shots are meant to reflect their similar appearance.

that's what I thought but I thought there was some step-parent thing somewhere. or I'm wrong.

besides it's the Freaks and Geeks mom, how could you ever be mean to her?

I think there's some kind of crossover point, or there was for me: in college etc you're just so on your own trip and why is everyone making life so difficult and ugh everything and your parents end up in the firing line of that logic and then, I dunno, somewhere in my late 20's/30's I look back and I'm just like, ugh I can't believe I did those things to my parents.

nothing quite as awful, but you know all that unthinking stuff of you say you're coming home for the weekend and then spend all your time drinking with friends when they had hoped to spend time with you etc

So OTM. My dad had a big stroke when I was 22, after which point he basically couldn't talk in any detail. At 22 I was still in the above-noted mode, by the time I grew up enough to want to ask my folks lots of questions about their pasts etc, he couldn't do that. Regretz.

sorry if that's an overshare btw, it's just what vgrrl's observation made me think of...

I think the worst thing I ever did was tell my parents I wanted to have my 21st birthday at home in the big shed in the backyard. So Mum & Dad did all this work - I drove down with my friends like, 2 hours before the party, didn't do a thing to help, we kept them up most of the night with drunken shenanigans...and then we all piled in the car left the next afternoon, after lunch.

I sure as shit hope I said thank you.

Sure this has must have been mentioned already but got a huge sense of Girls as a kind of fantasy sequel to Freaks and Geeks from this week's episode: from the casting of Becky Ann Baker as the mum to the Michigan hometown and suburban hinterland to the Apatow co-write - all very different to the shameless autobiography of Tiny Furniture. Found myself thinking - well, is Hannah how Lindsay would have turned out after college?

Pleased to see that David Thomson is also a fan, though I'm not sure he needed to bring in the Kane gang: http://www.tnr.com/article/film/103526/lena-dunham-girls-hbo-tiny-furniture-youth-economy

Girls makes the Kane Gang look like an Einstein... chip. CHIP!!!

(sry)

i liked this episode a lot!! I wish it were always set in her hometown in her parent's house! I think I just don't like New York.

also liking adam a lot more now. he's charming in a clueless douchey way.

i am sure he's an aquarius

yeah I'm kinda secretly hoping she moves back home and gets that florist job

and brings Adam with her, looool Adam in Michigan would be hilar

haha yeah i was wondering what miccio thought of sundays ep

i was doing dishes and didn't see most of the ep, just came in the room in time to see the parents banging.

phew

what a weird world you live in where television keeps going when you leave the room

just in time

what a weird world you live in where television keeps going when you leave the room

my wife was watching it, I haven't seen one since the 2nd ep. While I liked it a lot more than the first, I didn't feel like adding it to my must-see TV.

is Hannah how Lindsay would have turned out after college?

Jesus, I can't picture Hannah on a Dead tour.

Really uncertain about catching up on this now if it's going to make me (or going to assume that I) like Adam!

i still don't like adam

I <3 Adam

He has different ideas about life but I feel like e8's more self-realized and honest about who he is, now.

adam is like that bad boyfriend in gilmore girls (imo)

u cringe every time they get back together but at the same time, like, you know you would do the same in her position

Never watched that show :(

"you're from new york, so you're just naturally more interesting than anyone else"
^we really do believe this btw

― phooey and nuts and phooey (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 12:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha this was the best line

adam is cooler/stupider/awesomer-idea than the bf in gilmore girls!!!

and if i were still in my 20s i would have a hard time btwn the idea of such a thing and the thing itself

everyone i don't think we can have a sensible conversation about whether or not you like adam just because he was all sweet in the last episode. a couple of weeks ago he was having weird picking-up-children-on-the-street conversations during sex & on sunday he was all OH SHUCKS NUTHIN MUCH JUST THOUGHT I'D CALL YOU. we are still pretty malleable.

he is a real good character though. just reading a book in an undecorated apartment by lamplight, or always making something with a powertool.

this last ep was great, anyhow.

It's not even the conversation (though it doesn't help), so much as the "This is just something I'm doing during sex, without any thought of how you might feel about it or how it might affect you (or memory of it afterwards)", like Hannah was just there to add texture to his wanking.

I like Adam!

This was really great. Impressing more with each episode, even if it's got some rough bits. Some good lines. I liked Tako.

this really just keeps getting better. sad that I don't know how the non-sexual groin massage ended

X-post Me too. Also <3 Shoshona.

I still love that dude. I really need to watch tiny furniture.