I don't know what specifically happened on the show about this but I know know too many smart women still caught up in it ( an I Won thing) and I get really sad that it's even a thing.
― Yerac, Sunday, 28 April 2019 04:42 (four years ago) link
Well, I read the wiki synopses and jumped ahead to the last episode and I thought it was great
I don't really know how to type this properly but it is kind of amazing how Lena/Hannah has normalized quotidian onscreen nudebody in a way that is really uplifting. The dovetail of Mom berating Hannah into Hannah berating runaway was perfect. I liked how all the other characters who I essentially don't care about (please save me from ever having to think about an Adam/Desi/Ray/Gay Dad/Mormon Dude ever again) were just not present, that was nice
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 28 April 2019 05:38 (four years ago) link
Marnie was always a total monster and it's only because Desi is an even bigger monster that we entertain the thought that she's not a monster.
― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Sunday, 28 April 2019 10:03 (four years ago) link
I really enjoy Girls but 'child as redemption' is such bullshit
what happened with jessa/adam at the end, again?
― kinder, Sunday, 28 April 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
Oh I didn't think there was a "child as redemption" thing. Hannah storms out of the house screaming "thanks mom for choosing to raise me with a homosexual father and deny me any semblance of a nuclear family", then she shows compassion for a teenage girl in trouble only to find out she's just trying to get out of her homework, and she gets mad and asks for her pants back and the girl calls her a psycho. So she goes home and Grover and crying. A running theme in this show seems to be that there is a complicated relationship between children and parents. There's a lot of "Jessa is a monster" "Marnie is a monster" about this show but I think the show very aggressively wants you to understand there are no good or bad people in the show, the characters are too complicated for that reduction.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 28 April 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
I was pretty drunk last night and was wondering what thread I had posted on. Ha!
― Yerac, Sunday, 28 April 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
earlier post was about how Hannah figured it out and grew up after deciding to have a baby
― kinder, Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
holy shit this lunatic narcissism
As I planned my summer in Wales, my head filled with visions of romance, I supposed I’d do what the heroines of novels did when they crossed the pond for a new life: go to the shore to take the healing air. Meet a man and move into his stunning manor, possibly watched over by a sinister housemaid. Scurry through cobblestoned streets and into dusty bookshops, furtively pulling up the hood of my cloak. Go to a banquet and dance to piano music in a great hall. Taste gamey meats on a date with a count, then become a countess. Shoot a bow and arrow. Develop a slight accent. Images of everything from Brighton Rock to Emma, The Woman In White to Notting Hill, filled my head. There was even a little 24 Hour Party People in there. But as it would happen, my days were long, and much more Wernham Hogg than Wuthering Heights.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
Spoiler: It's about Love Island
― kinder, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
we must protect lena dunham at all costs
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
why would anyone print this inane article
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
^ probably to quietly point out how she has spent five months in the country without ever noticing that it is a different country to the one she thought she was going to
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
Emma is set in Surrey, EnglandWuthering Heights is set in Yorkshire, EnglandWernham Hogg is situated in Slough, England24 Hour Party People is set in and very specifically about Manchester, EnglandBrighton Rock is set, and there may have been some clue to this, in Brighton, EnglandNotting Hill also drops some subtle titular hints as to its setting in Notting Hill, a district in London, EnglandThe Woman In White is set in Cumberland, England and Hampshire, England, and London, England
also Wales has neither counts nor countesses. you can become a countess by marriage in England, but not by marrying a count, because England also does not have counts.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
Has she done this before (getting things terribly wrong about the U.K)? Otherwise I'm just experiencing deja-vu and nevermind.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
she's just in "britain" and is eliding - just due to ignorance, i would assume - the particularity of the member nations
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
just due to ignorance, i would assume
yes
this is the point
she literally can't be bothered to look out of her own head for 0.5 seconds to realise that she is thinking about a different country, even when she is writing 9,000 words about how ignorant she is due to making unthinking assumptions
the particularity of the member nations
she's eliding a bunch of European nations too
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
sounds like you find her annoying sic
― badg, Thursday, 1 August 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
It’s dumb spacefiller but would be hard-pushed to find it annoying or lunatic or... anything, really
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 1 August 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
common or garden yank ignorance wrt these islands is hardly in the top 1000 of lena dunham's crimes of discourse
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 1 August 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
I watched and mostly liked the first four or so seasons of Girls
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 1 August 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
I love Lena and everything she's ever done and said
― flappy bird, Thursday, 1 August 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
:D
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 1 August 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
She is a flawless human being and an inspiration to everyone
― flappy bird, Thursday, 1 August 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
idk im tired at work it's slow as shit this is pure unfiltered sleep deprived flappy bird hours
― flappy bird, Thursday, 1 August 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
New feature film (Sharp Stick) debuts at Sundance (online) this weekend.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Thursday, 20 January 2022 14:46 (two years ago) link
Enjoyed this more in retrospect than while watching it. If the strengths of Girls made that show worth watching for you (great casting, honest moments, good dialogue, complicated sex), this one has those as well – as well as (as with Solondz et al) the feeling of an individual rather than a studio deciding how to provoke in ways that match her personal truths.
What’s different is that this protagonist feels much, much younger than the Girls women. Not just sheltered. And only a throwaway line of dialogue establishing her as 26 keeps this from feeling like it’s about someone mid-teens.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Sunday, 23 January 2022 04:42 (two years ago) link
I love Girls. An amazing show all the way through.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 23 January 2022 07:10 (two years ago) link
Great post:
Emma is set in Surrey, EnglandWuthering Heights is set in Yorkshire, EnglandWernham Hogg is situated in Slough, England24 Hour Party People is set in and very specifically about Manchester, EnglandBrighton Rock is set, and there may have been some clue to this, in Brighton, EnglandNotting Hill also drops some subtle titular hints as to its setting in Notting Hill, a district in London, EnglandThe Woman In White is set in Cumberland, England and Hampshire, England, and London, Englandalso Wales has neither counts nor countesses. you can become a countess by marriage in England, but not by marrying a count, because England also does not have counts.― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, July 31, 2019
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, July 31, 2019
― the pinefox, Sunday, 23 January 2022 09:37 (two years ago) link
finally watching season 5 and finding it frequently funny tbh
― nashwan, Thursday, 10 February 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link
rewatching this series for the first time since it originally ran and shocked at how good it is, but also how it seems to be from another century entirely, despite only being 12 years old.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 17 March 2024 02:03 (one month ago) link
funny to look back at the reactions people had toward these characters, who are simply human.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 17 March 2024 02:08 (one month ago) link
I loved this show from start to finish.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 17 March 2024 02:20 (one month ago) link
Even with the passage of time and eating ass becoming a meme, the kitchen butt motorboat still seems pretty out there for a non-Cinemax show.
Empire had the blowjob bib but American TV is regressing when it comes to lol wtf sex scenes.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 17 March 2024 07:37 (one month ago) link