The main promo pic at the top of this thread always throws me off. The two middle Girls sort of look nothing like their on-screen actresses.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
I actually thought Lena Dunham was Alyson Hannigan the first time I saw that pic
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
How I Met Some Girls
― mh, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
yeah her hair's all flatironed and odd looking
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
I hope the Hannah's new housemate thing only lasts another ep or two... it seems like such a go-nowhere storyline
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
yeah eli's bf's parting seems designed to set this up
think I didn't like how at pretty much at almost all points of the ep I could imagine the writers at the writers table going "wouldn't it be crazy if X hooked up with Y"
adam continues to slay tho
― ;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝ (乒乓), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
yeah adam and shoshanna are the main reasons I watch.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
Do they suddenly skydive into the last scene after everyone has been wondering where they are?
Nobody wonders where they are, they get back from their honeymoon
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Monday, 14 January 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
This was funny! Some good scenes. First episode has all the catching-up/setting-up so I go easy on it for some things but pretty solid.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
"we're intertwined.""so you've met his parents?""no, he pays for everything."
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
just watched all of season 1 in the last couple days. this show is great.
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
much better than Tiny Furniture, altho I'm glad she kept my favorite actor/character from that (Ray)
yeah ray continued to shred "my computer told me you unfriended me on facebook..." though it was kinda creepy how he just grabbed her at the end
― ;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝ (乒乓), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
in fact, it got a o_O from me
she was very ostentatiously talking about how she wasn't into him = she was into him
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/dfa6cd7372fdc0506fd65f5bb9088aaf/tumblr_mglqs2YPSf1qaywulo4_r1_250.gif
― (panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
You all have me convinced. I downloaded this new episode and am commencing viewing imminently.
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, January 14, 2013 7:58 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
really? I hate the fuck and want to punch him in the face all the time.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
thought this was a good start to the season and agree that ray is hilarious + owns
― max, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
Having not seen an episode since the last season ended I was once again shocked with Shoshanna's character as it's the opposite of her Mad Men. I know that's what ~~acting~~ is but still.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
I hardly connect them! I know it's the same actress but I don't really think of them as the same person, or even actor portraying a person.
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
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― Ͱ͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉͟҉Ͱ҉͞҉͟҉͞҉͟҉͞҉͟҉͞҉͟ (lag∞n), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
^ how I feel about girls
― Ξ̿̿̿̿̿̿Ξ̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿Ξ̿̿̿̿̿̿ (乒乓), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
having watched 11 episodes in 2 days i love what a progressive shitshow this is and kind of want to spring for hbo
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
i hope next week springs back into like none-too-universalised but generationally-applicable shit-happening-to-some-girls territory. mining the ~emotional landscape~ created by everyone's situations is pretty dry. like ex-boyfriends. i worried a lil about the writing, too. like hannah's parents were so creatively drawn, & marnie's mom seems like such an obvious stock go-to destination (in spite of killer lines, ie rough hands), it could wade into real uninteresting areas, as if what was smart about it was the webs it wove rather than just what happens. this was a p awkward ep but i feel like it would be interesting to look back on later; most all of hannah's speech was sorta super & deeply heartbreaking & smart to me, but none of it was really effective in the episode.
also i know there is a big ~fountainhead reveal~ coming but it's p weird that no characer detail was bestowed upon donald glover beyond a) african american & b) donald glover.
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
tbf he was on screen for like 45 seconds
― (panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/lena-dunham-february-2013#_
― welcome back, burt stanton! (buzza), Sunday, 20 January 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
Miranda July interview Lena Dunham while feeding her baby = most precious purgative ever
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Sunday, 20 January 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
I never realized until recently how much of making work for me was also based in making the people around me understand that I got it. Sometimes when I make things, it's because I want my parents to see that I know what a pain I've been. I just want them to see it and feel that I know. It's not necessarily even wanting them to know that I'm sorry—just that I'm in on it, so don't think I'm not. Or, for example, with a guy who I've slept with, I'll think, "You're going to see my movie and you're going to understand that I was out-thinking you the entire time and you didn't even know it." Of course, that's not how anybody perceives your work...I don't know if you've ever had that fantasy.
v interesting quote imo, re: her kinda generationally-self-loathing output. the focus on her self-recognition alongside her more general caricaturing is v salient.
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Monday, 21 January 2013 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
breaking: 20something into subtweeting, given lots of money to do so
― maura, Monday, 21 January 2013 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
great ep, Hannah's self-sabotage and apparently instinctual and unwitting cruelty is back and not just as a joke like in the job interview with Mike Birbiglia. Wonder if it will turn out that Adam is off the wagon.
― (panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby), Monday, 21 January 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
tbf Judd Apatow has that fantasy often
― mh, Monday, 21 January 2013 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
Well, I should say, produces that fantasy. His own is something else.
― mh, Monday, 21 January 2013 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
On the first couple of episodes I really, really hated this show but gave it a chance and have really warmed to it and have caught up. UK'ing it so not got the second episode of Series 2 yet. Buuut what I like about it, even though the life experiences in this show are very different from mine is that that 20's year old superconfidence + superinsecurity thing = social fuck up is universal. At the same time I wouldn't defend the show too much as I realise the faults in it and I could easily despise it.
― TheScienceLaw, Monday, 21 January 2013 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
ok this episode is actually funny for a change.
― s.clover, Monday, 21 January 2013 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
youd be like really good @ bathing a pig
― johnny crunch, Monday, 21 January 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
why dont you lay this thing down flip it and reverse it
― johnny crunch, Monday, 21 January 2013 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
im glad this show is finally funny again
Why is self-awareness and a sense of irony about her selfishness this saving grace to her? It's as though she's not ashamed at all to have been selfish, even towards her parents, but it's being perceived as the unaware megalomaniac, who had lost perspective or was naive, that's horrifying. But perhaps she's aware that this attitude is also nagl, and there's self-awareness, and we're another layer in...
― Cunga, Monday, 21 January 2013 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
"Welcome to the LayerCupCake..."
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 21 January 2013 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm. But then again, she has parents who decide it 'wouldn't be honest' to stay all the way through school plays that suck etc, who seem to have taught her this creative selfishness by example. I did enjoy that interview.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Monday, 21 January 2013 07:56 (eleven years ago) link
parents who decide it 'wouldn't be honest' to stay all the way through school plays that suck
this sounds awesome!!
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Monday, 21 January 2013 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
haha of course marnie is from montclair
― 乒乓, Monday, 21 January 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
this was a great ep
is it just me or is this season really dark? Like in a lighting sense. Every indoor scene seems murky as hell
― Number None, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
this seemed k soap opera-y & broadbrush, to me :/
like i feel like it can be really incisive & thoughtful about which moments of relationships & friendships are representative, are punctums, but so far this season it's just been like generic tv show shit, like don't tell hannah *people bristle under the weight of a shared secret*. also not to sound like donald glover reading the essay but nothing is really happening to the characters, apart from marnie losing her job i guess. i always want homer to be at work on the simpsons & i would be sorta into just dry & droll shit being chronicled on girls. all of this said the scene where hannah chased adam out of the apartment was really moving & tonally just really interesting to me, like probably operating on a louie-ish level of flexible emotional terrain.
because it's really valuable to recognise the messy layers of human experiences; that she can fuck up at the same time as knowing she is fucking up. that there's a conflict between action, impulse & judgement is really key in her work, i think, like she is pretty content framing her character, & characters in their twenties & elsewhere, as really misguided, either by being really trapped in her head or feeling confused by whatever outside stimulus battles with her predefined sense of self. it's a saving grace because people are iirc pretty regularly pretty selfish, but are also often well intentioned & torn between things & would do things differently & feel regularly like they act uncertainly. it is very satisfying to see this represented on screen the same way that it was nice for things like the sopranos to at least fracture GOOD GUY/BAD GUY narratives by being a lil more holistic. the weirdest criticism of s1 of this was when people talked about whether or not the characters were sympathetic, or suggested they wouldn't necessarily feel drawn to watching things in which nobody felt compelling; i can understand that as an aesthetic preference, like why do i want this extra depression in my life, but at a certain point it can almost be like insisting on happy endings or softer edges in your viewing material.
― rockism against racism (schlump), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
haha this ep
― (panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby), Monday, 28 January 2013 07:54 (eleven years ago) link
wonder what Booth Jonathan did to Laird
― (panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby), Monday, 28 January 2013 07:55 (eleven years ago) link
eli's license says he's from colorado which I assume is a ref to tiny furniture?? or has eli always been from colorado
― 乒乓, Monday, 28 January 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
The mesh shirt was killing me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 January 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link