GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

ha actually the only way i can get through those type of shows is with other people

maybe i need to have a girls s1 slumber party

haha

I'd come

u r invited

I would come if I could hide behind yr couch when necessary or watch from another room

i will give u the ipad

<3

okay I'm in

I like watching this show, not always a big fan of talking about it on ilx ;_;
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby)

ok what does VC mean besides VietCong

Venture capitalist.

Vacuum Cleaner.

Various Cheeses.

Vonage Customer.

Voided Check.

Vascular Congestion.

Vincent Cassel

Vince Clortho

Vincent Chase

i found myself defending lena dunham last night on gangster rap's terms. "She's a product of her environment"

lmao

has s2 happened yet?

2moro nite

slumber party countdown

Psyched.

PlannedParenthood: @PPFAQ: So excited for the premiere of @girlsHBO tonight, @lenadunham!

excited about the new season of people complaining about Girls!

They're raking up the Golden Globes

This show is closing in on Brian Jones-like levels of alt cool.

um that was the first episode i've watched... like, if i wanted to be stuck at a bad party with unpleasant people who wouldn't consider me for a one-night stand i'd just respond 'yes' to my facebook invites on a more regular basis

watch enlightened instead, or also i guess

already am

lols @ "a panda next to a gun next to a wrapped gift"

this ep was actually better/funnier than most of last season

I wasn't drawn in by this as much as I was by the s1 premiere but it does make me look forward to the rest of the season

i really want to like this show but really do not like this show

one thing that bugs me is that it feels very disjointed to me, like she has no idea how to write for television

my keen mathematical mind & faat growing hair

"like she has no idea how to write for television"

perhaps what TV needs!

Have reserved s1 at the library, shd be about 3 months.

Adam Driver said in the NYT that ppl don't recognize him in winter "until the ears come out."

i like this show much more than i thought i was going to.

I can see you loving watching it

zing wouldn't let me post a panda next to a gun next to a wrapped present, sort this out stet

perhaps what TV needs!

Only Morbs would (winkingly, I concede) poo-poo the current surplus of riches on TV by suggesting that what TV might need is someone who doesn't know how to write for TV. Like Dunham surveyed a week's worth of awesomeness that's almost as impossible to catch up with as an issue of the New Yorker and figured, hmm these shows are all so well written, acted, directed, generally well put together, and their stories so dramatically/comically compelling and entertaining, maybe if I approach it from a different direction ...

i ran into the dude who works at the coffee shop on the show at union pool awhile back

JiC, take those "riches" to the hype bank.

i didn't think this was such a great return; paled next to most of last season. hope it improves.

Morbs, you don't like any recent or current TV? It's really good, and a lot of it is free!

shoshanna owns ep 1

I have a keen mathematical mind and fast-growing hair

karaoke with fearful glances

solo cup to one ear, air-scratching an imaginary record... <3

it's not free when yr antenna pulls in nothing. (NYC)

I'm willing to comfort Allison Williams in her time of need.

hurting, does that really bother you? the complaint seems a bit reaching, imo.

― jed_, Friday, 11 January 2013 18:52 (3 days ago) Permalink

I don't think it would have bothered me so much if the world of the show didn't seem so exclusive and rarefied and snobby in this sort of underhanded way where being a truster in a shabby apartment seems to be the only acceptable way to be. Also the VC guy was way over the top, although it almost worked in a Paul Thomas Anderson sort of way.

Anyway, pretty much the same issue I have with the same show generally -- good because it captures a certain kind of 20-something worldview so well, bad because it actually is written from such a close distance to that worldview that it sometimes lacks self-awareness.