HBO'S :"GIRLS"- Page 3

[MotorTink]

Posted: 5/1/12 at 1:59pm

I watch a lot of television and yet I cannot get into this show. I try not to be too rash and give a show a chance, but after 15 minutes of the pilot I was so turned off to the show. Definitely not up my alley.

[Tom1071]

Posted: 5/7/12 at 4:54pm

I wasn't quite sure what to think about this show at first but I have been thoroughly entertained so far. It makes me laugh out loud. Episode 3 is by far my favorite.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/7/12 at 5:25pm

I've seen the first two episodes and was not really wowed or anything. I'll watch the third tonight, but for some reason, it keeps reminding me of Ghost World (though I don't know why) and I hated that movie with a passion. Perhaps it's just too pessimistic or the characters too pathetic for me to enjoy. I can't really put my finger on it.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/7/12 at 5:31pm

I think I was pretty much done after the miscarriage ex machina, but I watched the next two and have concluded that now I really am done.

Also, I thought it was .... not really intersting, but kind of funny that Lesly "Precious doesn't represent me ha ha ha" Barfin has a small role last night in which she and a brown woman (yay!) told Hannah sugar was good for her skin.

"Brown sugar," said the brown lady.

"No, white sugar," said Lesly. Updated On: 5/7/12 at 05:31 PM

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 5/7/12 at 8:18pm

I'm still watching and actually laughed out loud twice last night, but this comedy of humiliation definitely has its limits and will probably wear thin. There's not a completely sympathetic character to be found.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 5/7/12 at 8:47pm

I think Shoshanna is sympathetic when her only real flaws are her immaturity/naivete/inexperience.

Did Jessa have a miscarriage or was she just really late and concluded she had to have gotten pregnant? I wouldn't put the latter past her and I think there would be a huge difference between a miscarriage and menstrual discharge (and given I am not a Jessa fan at all, I think her reaction indicated that it was that she was late and she got her period). All the other recaps believe it was her period.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/7/12 at 8:51pm

Yeah, I'm not sure. One would think they'd be certain if they were pregnant or not before planning an abortion.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 5/7/12 at 11:16pm

Marnie set up the abortion appointment with no questions asked, an act of throwing Jessa a bone and possibly trying to be friends with her rather than just sharing the same friend (hence Hannah cracking 'you threw a beautiful abortion' line). Since Marnie had just met Jessa during the pregnancy revelation, there was no reason for her to believe at the time that Jessa was as personally irresponsible as she truly showed herself to be in the second episode.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/8/12 at 12:24am

Still, flighty or not, I wouldn't let someone schedule me an abortion if I wasn't even sure I was pregnant.

[blueroses]

Posted: 5/8/12 at 11:39am

Whenever I THINK I'm done--and believe me, the characters make me cringe-- something makes me laugh. Zosia Mamet and Adam Driver are the best actors on the show.

Wouldn't the clinic or facility require that you have a positive pregnancy test and an exam confirming pregnancy prior to an abortion? Eh, whatever. I hate the Jessa storyline. And I'm confused about Marnie's job (maybe I'm not paying enough attention). Does she work at an art gallery or a health center? Works at a gallery and volunteers at the clinic? Works at an art gallery that performs abortions as performance art?

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/8/12 at 2:25pm

"Wouldn't the clinic or facility require that you have a positive pregnancy test and an exam confirming pregnancy prior to an abortion?"

Yes! Unless they can actually see the pregnancy, they won't perform an abortion.

[picturetaker9211]

Posted: 5/9/12 at 2:21am

I was under the impression that Marnie & Jessa knew each other because of the way Marnie talks about her in the pilot.

I adore Shoshanna. I feel like I can relate to her as a 20 year old virgin, & I'm sometimes a girly girl. She's vulnerable & sweet. Hannah is becoming more bearable, even though I've always liked her. She just makes me cringe sometimes Marnie is there, but I'm excited to see how things play out with Charlie.

Also, shout out to Skylar Astin of Spring Awakening fame who played the Jewish camp counselor this past week!

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 5/9/12 at 5:00pm

"Did Jessa have a miscarriage or was she just really late and concluded she had to have gotten pregnant?"

Clinics don't perform exploratory abortions. It was a miscarriage.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 11:22am

I kind of love the show at this point. The dialogue is so sharply written and amusing.

"Someday I'm going to write an essay about this and I'm not going to change your name..and then you can sue me."



Dunham responds to criticism

Updated On: 5/14/12 at 11:22 AM

[strummergirl]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 11:32am

The Oberlin College flashback was perfect especially noting Hannah's terrible gaydar.

And Shoshanna being in the episode for all but 90 seconds was still used for great comedic effect and I think that is because Mamet is the best actress on the show (the difference between Shoshanna and Joyce from Mad Men is a pretty stark contrast).

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/30/12 at 9:20am

This interview with Andrew Rannells was posted yesterday and I think he has the best response to all the backlash: http://www.vulture.com/2012/05/andrew-rannells-girls-the-new-normal-interview.html

Plus, he addresses the slap, which I thought was ridiculous (but still funny).

[HorseTears]

Posted: 2/20/14 at 9:55pm

You guys. Patti LuPone's guesting on next week's ep of GIRLS in a role she was born to play: Patti LuPone. I can only pray there is a scene involving Hannah, Patti and a camera flash.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 2/20/14 at 10:19pm

And Patti is dressed the NINES!! Oh lord, that crazy guy from rehab is back?

(I thought you avoided previews, Mr Horsey?)

[HorseTears]

Posted: 2/20/14 at 10:27pm

Was she? Her appearance in the preview flashed by so quickly I wouldn't have even known it was her had Hannah not said "Patti LuPone?"

And, yeah, looks like rehab Daddy's back, but I never thought Jessa's sobriety was going to last.


(Ha. No, I only tend to avoid them if it's a serialized edge-of-your seat thriller like Breaking Bad or The Killing. I think I was just avoiding the preview for Looking because this week's ep was like a dream. I didn't want to break the spell. Yet.)

[strummergirl]

Posted: 2/20/14 at 10:32pm

Dunham was delightful on Bill Simmons' podcast though she is scant on spoiling the remainder of the season except she notes Patti as herself is as far as she is going in Entourage-level 'stunt casting'.

Really loving this season but I do want closure with Adam's sister Caroline and want **** to hit the fan when Shosh finds out about Ray and Marnie (who I somehow like together).

There's some theories about Richard E. Grant as Jessa's rehab friend. We have never seen him interact with anyone but her and some think it is suggesting he is a mere figment of her imagination. It's whatever, I just enjoy the hell out of Richard E. Grant.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 2/20/14 at 10:34pm

The rehab version of Drop Dead Fred? I don't know if I like the sound of that...

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 2/20/14 at 11:15pm

I was just teasing based on your Looking discussion (and nobody has discussed the "spoiler" since you left btw--it was one line and something you could probably predict. I mean every show has a "gay dies of a terrible drug overdose" episode, right?)

Ha I was joking--Patti had a horrible hammock thing on from the second I could see. :)

I was shocked Jessa wasn't even secretly drinking at the Hamptons actually. I mean would they have even noticed? I guess she was briefly actually making an effort...

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 2/20/14 at 11:26pm

That would be a bit much for me... He did give her a pill she took, didn't he? But working at a children's store sounds perfect...

I think/hope we will get SOME followup with Caroline. This season has grown on me, and despite myself I loved the Hamptons episode. Some fans thought Shosh's "cruel drunk" thing was too much, but every viewer had to have wanted her to say it.
Others have theorized that they're making Charlie look worse and worse as "payback" for the actor leaving so suddenly... Meh.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 2/21/14 at 12:24am

Personally, I don't buy it but I have seen multiple people bring it up. Crazy TV theories never cease to amaze me and I never took this show leaving any subliminal messages before. But the show is one to not mine going **off** like the OCD episode yet I also think the darkness of Season 2 is left behind. Those character moments are acknowledged but I think there is a much looser feeling happening this season, especially when until recently nothing good was happening to any of the characters. It can't all be pitch black.

I am not 100% sure Marnie was actually telling the whole truth on the matter. She expanded on the pizza story but we are still hearing just her side and we also know she was far from the perfect girlfriend. It's just one part of the Rashomon story but the show can only do so much when a series regular asks out of a show after they re-paired him with an even more important character.

Shosh wasn't just being a viewer stand-in. I really do understand why she can go from thinking when she was younger that this group was amazing to finding each of them annoying and disappointing now. She also cheated on Ray last season for neediness and loneliness finding herself stuck between these groups of people, so I feel like it was in-character. Over-dramatic? Yeah, but it was cruel drunk Shosh.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 2/21/14 at 12:50am

Yeah, I loved cruel drunk Shosh. It makes a character I already loved infinitely more interesting. The next time she's babbling endlessly about hair accessories or Sex and the City, you'll know there's some anger lingering just below the surface.

BTW, Jessa's comment to Elijah's friend (the cute brunette) is now my new favorite pick-up line: "You look like someone Robert Mapplethorpe would have photographed."