GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

no way the penultimate episode is the best episode of the series.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--0FL495H8E8/TstDRY0fTAI/AAAAAAAAAOs/2aJQioSoTFg/s640/deskset.jpg

penultimate episode sucked but the one preceding it was one of the best of the series

i liked the judy collins song playing in the end credits on that one.

I still don't like the OCD thing, it just reminds me of one 20-something friend who constantly talks about how she is bipolar. Number one it comes across as a way to indulge her ego, number two it's a gratuitous act of self-mythologizing (which i guess is what your 20s is all about), number 3 it's sort of a hipster flag of authenticity. All truly great artists are tortured souls. Hannah isn't just a spoiled woman too lazy to actually do any work, she is SUFFERING for her ART, she is TORTURED and trying to OVERCOME great odds. Puh-leeze.

eh, but the suffering isn't romanticized at all... it's presented in a pretty cringeworthy way... so i think it might actually undercut that old cliche of the suffering artist, and i think that might be the point of it all

omfg adam gtfo

omfg adam gtfo

― 乒乓, Friday, April 12, 2013 9:18 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Having shirtless ex-boyfriend racing through the streets to save her, break down her door, and cradle her in his arms is not romanticizing, ok.

i think that scene was kind of ironic, like adam and hannah are going through the motions of a cliched, borderline sexist romance narrative, even though it is clear that "coming together" is not enough to save them; they're indulging a fantasy, and i think that is indicated by the over-the-top music playing during that scene. i explained this position upthread. i don't think anyone agreed with me

ban adam bruneau

I agree w/ you, Pat Finn.

:-)

I still don't like the OCD thing, it just reminds me of one 20-something friend who constantly talks about how she is bipolar. Number one it comes across as a way to indulge her ego, number two it's a gratuitous act of self-mythologizing (which i guess is what your 20s is all about), number 3 it's sort of a hipster flag of authenticity. All truly great artists are tortured souls. Hannah isn't just a spoiled woman too lazy to actually do any work, she is SUFFERING for her ART, she is TORTURED and trying to OVERCOME great odds. Puh-leeze.

I think you're projecting way too much here and/or don't understand mental illness. It's hardly 'constantly talking' about it, considering how much it probably would have actually affected her young life, to just drop it into a couple episodes like that. And if she was romanticizing it she probably wouldn't have written her character to be a spoiled woman too lazy to work.

kinder put it about as nicely as you're gonna get AB.

yeah true fact: mental illness is not an affectation.

i was all 'uh oh' when the OCD thing started being foregrounded but, in fact, she nailed it and like many on this thread I speak from too much personal experience to be at risk of romanticizing. And if anything the grand finale you-have-saved-me is INCREDIBLY foreboding, like if she is having a full blown long lasting mega spike the last thing she needs is for him to babysit her in that way

yeah i couldn't agree more with that. from the show's sensitive, and knowing portrayal of OCD, it's clear that they can't be so naive as to believe adam could just swoop in and "save" her. the show, i think, and lena dunham, know what they are doing.

same goes for him (adam), he is dialing for destruction

totally

omfg adam gtfo

― 乒乓, Friday, April 12, 2013 9:18 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― HIGH-FIVES TO ALL MY COWORKERS AT THE QBERT SEX SWING (silby), Friday, April 12, 2013 12:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah cosigning that

omfg adam gtfo

― 乒乓, Friday, April 12, 2013 9:18 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― HIGH-FIVES TO ALL MY COWORKERS AT THE QBERT SEX SWING (silby), Friday, April 12, 2013 12:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― purp (roxymuzak), Friday, April 12, 2013 10:33 AM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(mad lols at silby's username btw)

I'll cosign it too since y'all are ganging up on me.

ur an idiot

so you guys actually think the final scene of the final episode was some sort of ironic commentary and not yr garden variety Apatow cornball shit? wow

yeah. u wanna fite?

i thought the objections to that scene were in spite of the irony cos it was bleedingly obvious?

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can we still fite tho

well...she did say that in the commentary after the episode, right

where is the commentary?

last 3 eps of Louie >>>>> last 3 eps of Girls

any ep of louie >>>>

i love Girls but yeah

more like pooie.

puppy

Final scene recalled the scene with Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts in The Player.

Traffic was a bitch.

nothing about charlie was real or sad especially thats all i ever wanted to hear youre all i want sorry johnny i love you but that was some hipster clutch bullshit

― surm, Thursday, April 4, 2013 11:47 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm so relieved he left

I'm v surprised no one here has yet praised LD's performance on Nurse Jackie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PPVUcrok_g

hah! Merritt Wever had a role in tiny furniture too. Way better actress than LD.

As an avid fan of both Girls and Nurse Jackie, I'm v disappointed I never made the connection how similar they were until like 3 days ago.

I love Merritt Wever. I need to catch up on Jackie.

god the 2nd season kind of sucks

what a bunch of whiners

Solitary posts etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNCnu66tybY&feature=player_embedded#

lol at hannah casually munching on a lobster while walking down the street.

fun fact: laraine newman's irl daughters are named lena and hannah.