I wanted to slap the shit out of Marnie during that part. Actually, during most parts.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 24 April 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vScKQ4gexwk
― dan selzer, Monday, 24 April 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkl_Vq1SWKg
― dan selzer, Monday, 24 April 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
Fast Car became ubiquitous when it was released and was a huge hit on MTV and radio and was a top ten hit on the Billboard charts
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 August 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
I know. I was asking how it became so ubiquitous with avant garde artists doing totally out there versions of it. Tho tbh I can only think of.... 3 off the top of my head. Sorry this is a weird thread to post this in. I hope Lena runs in 2020.
― flappy bird, Friday, 11 August 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
So...Lenny Dykstra
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 10 September 2017 03:48 (six years ago) link
he's been on fire ever since his interviews on Howard last year
― flappy bird, Sunday, 10 September 2017 04:46 (six years ago) link
"American Bitch" (with the novelist creep) is a great episode. I can only remember two other episodes that I thought were that good (granted, I've skipped around a lot) - the early one where Hannah sleeps with an older guy in a nice townhome and imagines a bourgeois life, the one from season 4 or 5 where Marnie hooks up with her ex. Makes me wonder about an alternate show without the standard wacky comic touches and the rest of the cast.
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 29 September 2017 04:55 (six years ago) link
Yep, feel the same between "American Bitch" and "One Man's Trash." No subplots or minor characters, just a single extended story.
― Eazy, Friday, 29 September 2017 04:57 (six years ago) link
all three of those episodes were unique in the Girls universe as one off stories instead of part of the larger narrative. Where there others?
― dan selzer, Friday, 29 September 2017 12:40 (six years ago) link
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner defend 'Girls' writer amid sexual assault claim: "We stand by Murray" https://t.co/46J9Aa7SOA pic.twitter.com/cLNMpPzIwV— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) November 18, 2017
― flappy bird, Saturday, 18 November 2017 07:15 (six years ago) link
I finally watched the last 2 seasons of this, away from any hype/expectations. I really enjoy this show, kind of in the way I like Peep Show - the characters say depressingly funny things that touch a nerve and neatly encapsulate the type of annoying person they are, and it handles 'friendship with people you kind of hate' really well, but I don't care about the storylines particularly or how DRAMATIC Jessa/Adam's relationship is. The final dialogue with Jessa and Hannah calling it even was very reminiscent of the end of Peep Show. I guess I don't mind that the characters are flawed (awful) except when they continue to do things that are so stupid it's stretching any credibility (Hannah on that road trip, Mark with the vanity publishing etc)
The pregnancy ending throughout the final season had me rolling my eyes so hard because it's the equivalent of ending with a big wedding or w/ever but actually the final episode being about pressures and difficulties of breastfeeding and anxiety about everything making you act like a nightmare and wondering what on earth you've done (totally normal ime), rather than the actual birth, was refreshing. Maybe less so if you haven't been there.
'American Bitch' was a real highlight. In general Desi/Marnie had me laughing quite a lot but Marnie on her own was toooooo much.
― kinder, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
I guess I don't mind that the characters are flawed (awful) except when they continue to do things that are so stupid it's stretching any credibility
this embodies so much of why I lost interest in this show. It's not nearly as plausible when they keep making the same mistakes for the 9th, 10th, 11th times
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 29 June 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
Like Nurse Jackie, it felt realistic that they kept making the same mistakes, but I was still less and less compelled to watch them making them.
― Arthur Funzonerelli (stevie), Friday, 29 June 2018 09:18 (five years ago) link
more like lena dudham
― raspberry swirl (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 09:33 (five years ago) link
xp i don't think girls got quite nurse jackie bad but i take your point
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 29 June 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
no you're right, i watched all of girls but peaced out on nurse jackie a coupla seasons before the end
― Arthur Funzonerelli (stevie), Sunday, 1 July 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
If I knew anybody in the screen trade I think they'd be laughing as they throw things at the wall. https://t.co/CCUuLaaczz— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) October 29, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
well that should end well
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
so I've been idly re-watching some of these and this really jumped out at me:https://youtu.be/3kniMAzPRAk?t=179
Natalia's prediction = the end of the show
Hannah's dad being gay is also foreshadowed in Ezra's very first scene, where he directly states that Hannah should have known that Ezra was gay in college *because of her dad*
― Οὖτις, Monday, 19 November 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
some of this show's whiplash plot contrivances made me predisposed to not think they were capable of that kind of foreshadowing/foresight but idk now
― Οὖτις, Monday, 19 November 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
I feel like I remember it being pretty strongly implied that he was gay early on in the show? Isn't there also something about going on "trips" with men?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 19 November 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
sorry when I said Ezra I meant Elijah, so that reference is all the way back in the third episode, before her parents have had v much revealed about them (besides the fact that they've threatened to cut off economic support of Hannah)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 19 November 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
yeah, I think I also remember catching that reference though
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 19 November 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
p sure I missed it the first time around
just made me think of how that particular reveal didn't come out of the blue unlike, say, Hannah's OCD in season 3
― Οὖτις, Monday, 19 November 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
anyway, the Natalia thing was more striking, because that breastfeeding comment is so specific
― Οὖτις, Monday, 19 November 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
*sees Lena Dunham trending on twitter*
:)
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 November 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
man the laughs really do start to evaporate in season 3
altho Desi's "confused Clapton" face is a welcome insufferably ridiculous addition
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 November 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/lena-dunham-comes-to-terms-with-herself.html
flappy's looking for this one, I think
meanwhile
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, June 28, 2018 9:12 PM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
apparently, per the article (among other evidence), this is exactly how lena dunham has lived her life and her family deals with it through begrudging acceptance
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
negative reviews of Camping, the HBO show she co-wrote with her Girls partner, Jenni Konner,
I had no idea this was her show. also it was terrible, couldn't make it through the first episode
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
There's a lot going on in that profile.
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
it's one of the few profiles I've read where it's clear that the writer/interviewer found the entire endeavor tiring
not to mention: Race is a chronic blind spot for her because she didn’t grow up with a lot of diversity in her New York City private school, she explains.
those last two words doing so much work
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
i can't get through this
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
what's the opposite of a thoughtful person
In general she's terrible, Tiny Furniture was fine, the start of Girls was good (got bored of it and her after 3 -4 seasons? and it had a hand in making greenpoint and williamsburg unliveable) but I appreciate her narcissism and prolificness that doesn't care whether people like or hate it. I am trying to think of another woman that produced so much work that young that is this terrible.
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
I support lena dunham. Being rich and eccentric isn’t the worst thing on earth.
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
She’s definitely said regrettable things but she’s apologized, I think. I don’t get the hatred except for the fact that she’s an easy target.
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
I do give her some credit for trying to get the Clinton campaign to distance itself from Weinstein. Not reading that profile though lol
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 26 November 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
She's an easy target because she's insufferable and successful like how usually only men are that insufferable and successful. That's the part I admire. The annoying thing is when people use her as the face of: feminism, millennials, new yorkers, hipsters, brooklyn, etc.
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
She’s definitely a little insufferable but also somewhat talented and charming. Obviously unsuited to be the “face of feminism” but she didn’t ask for that and it mostly seems like conservatives who want to tag her as that. As a face of millennial brooklynites.... idk it kind of fits.
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
idk y'all every other quote in this profile feels like an embarrassing gaffe in itself
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
like i deeply agree she's too easy of a target but she... keeps... doing... it
personally i also have no interest in women who are finally as shitty as men
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
equity!
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
Also it seems weird to be super harsh on her when part of her deal is being very upfront about her flaws and limitations. So much of how people exist today has to do with seeming irreproachable and perfect—she is kind of refreshing because she’s so much the opposite of that.
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
I don't think she can ever apologize away her public statement defending her friend that was accused of sexually assaulting an actress that was a minor at the time.
― Yerac, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
she's upfront about what she thinks are her flaws and limitations. the apologies are a result of her constantly running up against new (to her, i guess, old to the rest of us) limitations
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
― Trϵϵship, Monday, November 26, 2018 2:49 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is pretty much her tagline! it's her version of "people hate me because I'm beautiful"
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
the other line from the profile that really stood out:
She sent a screenshot of a motivational text conversation she’d had with her friend Lady Gaga, who is saved in her contacts as Lady Gaga, not as Stefani.
every time the word "friend" pops up after that, the whole concept is just kind of hanging there
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link