Girls (HBO)

[Artemis]

Season 3 starts tonight.

Even though I said I was done with Girls, I am still going to check out the new season.

[creep]

i'm done with the show too but i will also watch tonight,

[creep]

shit! i actually liked the first episode and we almost made it through the whole thing without hannah getting naked.

oh i guess there is one more episode on. hopefully i will hate it.

[perkana]

I just can't believe it's just on my HBO a couple of hours later. I don't hate spoilers but I'm glad that I will know what you're talking about

[perkana]

Season 3 starts tonight.

Even though I said I was done with Girls, I am still going to check out the new season.

I'm watching it for the guys (Elijah and Adam)

[perkana]

I really really hate Hannah

[Hokahey]

I like all the characters quite a bit, and I really liked the first 2 episodes from last night. Adam makes the show for me though.

[farrellgirl99]

those two episodes were a lot less annoying then the end of last season. i laughed a few times at some of shosana's lines

[zdilla]

i have hipster envy! i wish i was hipster!

[chaos]

I think Lena's Dunham's writing is overrated and wonder how/why she has been given movie and television opportunities. I realize that she is young, but there are plenty of young, much more talented writers.

I think Girls would be much better if Dunham did not star in it. I do not think she directs herself well.

those two episodes were a lot less annoying then the end of last season. i laughed a few times at some of shosana's lines

I agree. Despite my criticism, the last two episodes were entertaining.

[chaos]

http://jezebel.com/here-are-the-unretou ... 1503336657

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/20 ... s_are.html

JAN. 17 2014 4:06 PM
Lena Dunham Responds to the Vogue Haters
By Katy Waldman

Lena Dunham has responded to the outcry about her digitally altered Vogue cover and photo shoot, though she doesn’t explicitly mention Jezebel’s $10,000 call for unretouched images from the spread (answered this morning, with more of a whimper than a bang). On tour in Paris on Friday, the actress/director/writer/voice of her generation told Slate France:

I understand that for people there is a contradiction between what I do and being on the cover of Vogue; but frankly I really don’t know what the photoshopping situation is, I can’t look at myself really objectively in that way. I know that I felt really like Vogue supported me and wanted to put a depiction of me on the cover. I never felt bullied into anything; I felt really happy because they dressed me and styled me in a way that really reflects who I am. And I felt that was very lucky and that all the editors understood my persona, my creativity and who I am. I haven’t been keeping track of all the reactions, but I know some people have been very angry about the cover and that confuses me a little. I don’t understand why, photoshop or no, having a woman who is different than the typical Vogue cover girl, could be a bad thing.

When reporter Charlotte Pudlowski pressed her on the apparent paradox between the spirit of Girls and the spirit of Vogue, Dunham replied:

A fashion magazine is like a beautiful fantasy. Vogue isn’t the place that we go to look at realistic women, Vogue is the place that we go to look at beautiful clothes and fancy places and escapism and so I feel like if the story reflects me and I happen to be wearing a beautiful Prada dress and surrounded by beautiful men and dogs, what’s the problem? If they want to see what I really look like go watch the show that I make every single week.

I’m going to file this under “not terribly persuasive.” “Having a women who is different from the typical Vogue cover girl” means daring to embrace the qualities that make that woman different, not wishfully minimizing them. And while Vogue’s modifications were admittedly light, understanding Dunham’s “persona,” her “creativity,” and who she is (among other things, a spokeswoman for more realistic forms of loveliness) would seem to preclude altering her body at all. Also, while lady mags do purvey luxuriant escape, there’s no reason why their dreams of “beautiful clothes and fancy places” must also feature punishing, unnatural body norms. Why is that the fantasy?

[perkana]

I think Lena's Dunham's writing is overrated and wonder how/why she has been given movie and television opportunities. I realize that she is young, but there are plenty of young, much more talented writers.

I think Girls would be much better if Dunham did not star in it. I do not think she directs herself well.

those two episodes were a lot less annoying then the end of last season. i laughed a few times at some of shosana's lines

I agree. Despite my criticism, the last two episodes were entertaining.

I agree she musn't act herself. The rest of the cast makes the show bearable. I listened again to her interview with Alec Baldwin and of the amazing actress who played his mother on 30 Rock, the latter was way more interesting and endearing. Lena sounded like a snob

[chaos]

I watched Episode 5 of Girls last night. (It is already posted On Demand.) Although Adam Driver and Gaby Hoffmann (the actress who plays Adam's sister) were able to bring life to Dunham's mediocre writing, it was one of the worst episodes. Dunham cannot act, and this was glaringly apparent in her scenes with Driver and Hoffmann.

[perkana]

Her real self is a little less annoying.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01q4lwl
And I fucking hate her, she sat next to Idris Elba

[farrellgirl99]

I watched Episode 5 of Girls last night. (It is already posted On Demand.) Although Adam Driver and Gaby Hoffmann (the actress who plays Adam's sister) were able to bring life to Dunham's mediocre writing, it was one of the worst episodes. Dunham cannot act, and this was glaringly apparent in her scenes with Driver and Hoffmann.

Agreed.

The best part was when Gaby Hoffmann said "You will never write a thing that matters because you will never understand the true struggles of humanity because you just slipped right out of your mother's pussy like a nice little golden egg, you spoiled little fucking prick."

Cause it summed up everything I feel about Hannah

[chaos]

I hope it doesn't go down the twisted path that was raised during the argument (and not so subtly on the couch).

I don't know why I keep watching. It's not like Dunham will write herself out of the show and have one of the characters murder her.

[farrellgirl99]

I've been asking why I watch this show for three seasons

And yeah that would be the worst incest storyline since Dexter

[creep]

uggggggghhh i felt like i was at the worst party that i have ever been to in my life x 100000000.

[Artemis]

i liked last night's episode. it was a classic chick weekend with drunken blowout.


Shoshannah was the best!

On Hannah: “You’re a fucking narcissist. Seriously, I’ve never met anyone else who thinks their own life is so fucking fascinating. I wanted to fall asleep in my own vomit all day listening to you talk about how you bruise more easily than other people.”

[perkana]

yeah, she's my favorite

[chaos]

Shoshannah needs to drink more.

[wally]

fuck girls. if you aren't watching Broad City you're missing out. That show is fucking comedy gold.

[Artemis]

I've never heard of Broad City. Is it new?

[wally]

Yeah. I think there's only 3 or 4 episodes. It's on Comedy Central.

[creep]

i actually liked last nights episode and hannah wasn't naked in it.

i also noticed she didn't write it.