wow what an extremely unpleasant person
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
I love Adam and Ray togetherlong-awaited & awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 04:52 (eleven years ago) link
"coy? is that your first time using this word? " made me laugh out loyd
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
the last two episodes of this have been great.still can't relate with any of the characters,feel it's kind of dumb and obvious in places,and just like a soap opera at times,and not in a good way.but it's really compelling and funny at times (hannah beginning to write that story "room for cream?" killed me.adam saying to ray "maybe cause we're both weird looking = gold).
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 04:57 (eleven years ago) link
And Marnie's plastic dress!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 04:57 (eleven years ago) link
i don't really understand not loving just about everything about it.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
pretty much
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
"Her name was Murjashihaway" made me irl lol so fucking hard, like the idea of coming up with a name that ridiculous, and then crafting a sentence that exists just to draw attention to it, and then having that sentence be the first and only sentence of your book thus far was absolutely incredible.
― ICANN Tina Turner (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
agreed. that was hilarious
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
Also the title 'Room For Cream' made me lol
xxp yup, & plus not overtly spelling out all that as the "joke"
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:52 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^
dialogue was so good between them. adam's shit about older ladies felt like an echo from a million terrible conversations. also he is so beautiful.
― schlump, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I have a huge man crush on adam. wkiw!!!
― 乒乓, Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
it's so funny that I had such a vehement hatred of Adam and Ray the first time I watched and now they're my favorite dudes ever.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
the dog is called dog
he is such a singular & yet feasible archetype. simultaneous defence & demolition of hannah was really excellent; the fairground-tweetie-pie-doll analogy was so viciously poetic, like it is so worthy of a guy who has sat hatefully stewing alone for months.
― schlump, Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
i am still bummed that ray is on the track he is on this season though. like he's always in his upper register. like hitting those seinfeld notes. he needs to be low-energy-sassing more.
― schlump, Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
yeah his acerbity works best at a white-noise, background radiation level
― 乒乓, Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
for real. with jarring, solar-flare spasms, like talking about american hamburgers.
― schlump, Thursday, 21 February 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty great (and typically epic) article by Film Crit Hulk (with a predictably infuriating comments thread):
http://badassdigest.com/2013/02/20/film-crit-hulk-smash-why-girls-is-remarkable/
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 21 February 2013 09:32 (eleven years ago) link
All caps; didn’t read.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 21 February 2013 09:43 (eleven years ago) link
…But converted it to proper case and I heartily agree with the article.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 21 February 2013 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
Derail, but is the all-caps schtick more than just schtick? Is there some larger idea with it? If he bailed on it (which would be so appreciated) are there, like, a ton of Hulk fans who would be outraged?
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 21 February 2013 11:27 (eleven years ago) link
There is a lot of dramatically opportune crying this season.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 21 February 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
the one part that felt really hollow this ep was booth jonathan's 'breakdown'
― 乒乓, Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be a real breakdown or just him throwing Marnie's bullshit back in her face.
― nickn, Thursday, 21 February 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
jessa telling hannah to stop being a baby and eat the rabbit was perfect. really like how the last few episodes feel like a collection of loosely linked short stories.
― Jibe, Monday, 25 February 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
i really liked "probably because we both look weird" in the last ep
― flopson, Monday, 25 February 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that was nice too. this episode added another item to the long list of things that make me dislike hannah - who the fuck calls while pissing? especially when it's to tell your parents you love them.
― Jibe, Monday, 25 February 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
as short stories go, though, i've thought the last few episodes have been utterly conventional. like absolutely first year writers workshop material.
― s.clover, Monday, 25 February 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
Last two writing credits have been to staff and not LD, fwiw.
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Monday, 25 February 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
also, from a week ago, Ray disclosed that he "wasn't even a kike" and I was trying to figure out if the character had actually been pretending to be Jewish; he said his date from s1ep01 had "shiksa eyes".
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
I don't find this video particularly funny, but it's a pretty good Lena Dunham impression:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v71HKkH55ec
― jaymc, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
I really liked this new episode, shading in some of the background of Jessa. Also *Ben Mendelsohn* as her Dad was genius. Hands down my favorite Australian actor (well okay it's neck and neck between him and Noah Taylor) but definitely a great choice for a fuck-up flaky Dad. Loved everything about that ep.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ jaymc's link
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
For a minute or so I thought it WAS Noah Taylor
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
lol whut
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://images.smh.com.au/2010/08/17/1782800/NOAH65726_widenative-420x0.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Ben_Mendelsohn_2012.jpg/220px-Ben_Mendelsohn_2012.jpg
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
you're on your own with that, sry
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
I always get them confused!
― just sayin, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
smdh @ all of u
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2013/03/04/130304sh_shouts_marx
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
oh how we all laughed
― forks is lucky he didn't get stabbed over a marilyn monroe cd (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
I thought it was Gary Oldman for a few seconds, then I just decided it was anyway
― kinder, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
I'm with you DL. Was convinced it was Taylor until about halfway through. Only thing i've seen Mendelsohn in is Animal Kingdom though
― Number None, Thursday, 28 February 2013 11:06 (eleven years ago) link
ld impersonation sort of degenerates into shit girls say by the end.
― s.clover, Thursday, 28 February 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
not sure how i feel about the big reveal. it was done effectively -- the idea that this is real and not just more manufactured drama sort of only gradually becoming clear. but i also always feel that giving characters afflictions or whatever is lazy writing on some level, and it makes the character less interesting in my mind ultimately.
solid writing all around in this episode though, and a few really funny lines.
― s.clover, Monday, 4 March 2013 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
but i also always feel that giving characters afflictions or whatever is lazy writing on some level, and it makes the character less interesting in my mind ultimately.
gotta call you out on this. sensitive and accurate portrayals of mental illness (like this one!) are important and still unusual. Mental illness remains heavily stigmatized, and LD and co. translating and sharing the experience of OCD in this episode was really powerful and affecting for me.
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Monday, 4 March 2013 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
i can see that. my concern is is this a way to capture an actual experience primarily, or like a rabbit out of the hat to make the character more likable and provide depth. it depends where they take it next season i guess. i'm also constantly judging this show not by tv standards, but by short fiction workshop standards, since that's what it feels consistently closest to.
― s.clover, Monday, 4 March 2013 04:38 (eleven years ago) link
ah, just googled it up and apparently its autobiographical (down to the number eight).
― s.clover, Monday, 4 March 2013 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
more and more i can tell when lena is writing"the clay is dry"
― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 March 2013 04:41 (eleven years ago) link