GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

i mean it seems p clear that marnie and hanna and co. arent really "hipsters," they are like hipster hanger-ons or whatever, second-generation post-w'burg/greenpoint gentrification hipsters or something

hipsterrunoff.com

I really dont like any of the characters, except Adam, who I kinda half like. But I still have decided that I like the show. Marnie is the worst. She should be on Good Morning America, though, and follow in her dad's footsteps (kinda).

judd hipster apatow

I don't watch much TV, but strangely I have watched most episodes of HBO's new series Girls. Of course, the show is produced by Judd Apatow, the man who gave me my first good acting job, playing a freak on the television show Freaks and Geeks, and my first great comedy role, Saul Silver in Pineapple Express, but that's not why I've been watching. I got pulled in at the beginning simply because it seemed to portray my world -- the one inhabited by struggling creative types in New York. I'm not saying I have to struggle to pay the rent like Lena Dunham's character, Hannah, but there was a point, right before Judd cast me in Freaks and Geeks, when my parents cut me off because I wanted to go to acting school instead of UCLA. I worked at McDonalds, and my first suggestion to Hannah would be this: get a fucking job. If you really want to have experiences to write about, go to work; and if you really want to be an artist, take responsibility for yourself and wait some tables. You might mature a little in the process.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-franco/girls-hbo-lena-dunham_b_1556078.html

my world of struggling creative types in New York

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They say living well is the best revenge, but sometimes writing well is even better.

otoh, this is a killer line

I don't watch much TV, but strangely I have watched most episodes of HBO's new series Girls.

http://cdn1.hark.com/images/000/017/663/17663/original.0

James Franco should stick to acting.

Fictional Hannah thanks u for your advice James Franco.

thanking Stevie for introducing me to Grimes. <3 Canada

this show is so great, and has improved with each episode. and john cook is just the worst, such a bad writer with such a pointlessly spiteful take on the show, a total embarrassment. like i said here or on the gawker thread a few weeks back, he needs a decent editor, not to tell him how to rewrite his dreck, but just to tell him to stop.

Should we email his boss and let him know this is happening bcz seriously it's *really* bad

your GIRLS fans HATE this one gawker dick

"taking Obama to the White House"
—

Lesley Arfin, writer of the HBO show Girls, in her blog, has a metaphor for “pooping”.

Awww everyone involved in making this show just seems so charming.

discussed way upthread during the 1000 or so posts that happened before the 1st episode aired

That Franco article was like that one good last line and then every line before it (read backwards) is a little bit worse and worse and worse.

The Adam character jiu-jitsu is kind of amazing.

I caught the end of tiny furniture last night
I think she's pretty talented but I have no interest in spending time with characters in her milieu
It looked (visually) a lot better than I thought it would

still haven't seen, but hot/not hot debate over this Shirtless Adam guy is as instructive about what passes for telegenic male objects of desire these days as things written about Dunham are for women.

so…medium?

this ep was horrible

thought the Adam/Lena stuff was fantastic, could have done without VC threeway

Viet Cong / Venture Capital / Valley Chick?

Two of those things mentioned in this episode actually.

Yeah, don't think the three way thing worked very well (though lol at Chris O'Dowd as a Venture Capitalist decrying how shitty it is to move to Williamsburg and be surrounded by jobless kids of rich people).

Adam/Hannah stuff was really great though.

Chris O'Dowd speaking American gave me the jibblies

http://i.imgur.com/Xa0un.jpg

the girls were fine - tho no shoshanna, :( - but what accent was chris o'dowd attempting there?

ya it seemed to be everywhere. but i thought his creepy pathetic breakdown was great even if wildly over the top.

adam is the best.

http://i.imgur.com/Xa0un.jpg

loving this show more and more

i thought the VC scene was well-acted which saved it

Yeah Chris o dowd meltdown was p funny, also the SONGS with the children hahah.

Loved Adam/Hannah

three way was sorta meh, adam/hannah is a very familiar very crazy stupid kinda love
it is kinda odd how i always think he's capable of killing her
or peeing on her
and then he did one
so to speak
intrsting curveball finale: adam kills hannah with a bowling ball, hides body in floorboard, show goes on mostly the same

he'd probably build a replica viking funeral bier and set it afloat on the river for her

I assume vikings did that sort of thing

'Slave to Love' with bird/monkey screeches A+

and they were such spot-on song choices for THAT guy

don't really KNOW that guy? felt like a pastiche/strawman to me.

I didn't think too hard on it, it felt funny to me

Also valid

you guys are referring to some Irish comedian like he's a huge global star?

I don't think anyone did that? He was the romantic lead in one of the biggest comedies of recent years though

i had never heard of him

wouldn't have guessed he was irish even if the accent was strange

he's Roy on The IT Crowd!

^^^^

i trust that worked out well for him

I've heard of The IT Crowd, yeah, have never seen it; prob has a devoted US cult of 50,000.