Andrew Andrew were a "big deal" when Electroclash happened!
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
are her mustards not receiving enough accolades
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Saturday, February 2, 2013 5:15 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Loved this line. The show is so good at creating laugh-out-loud moments in the middle of really fraught, combative scenes. And not even to defuse the tension, necessarily. People just say ridiculous things when they're arguing.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
that line might have been most i've "identified" w this show so far (i am 25)
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
Also the noodles are so hard to cook line was nicely tossed off
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder how many times i've said (i am 25) in this thread
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
Hannah grabbing the cake and eating it by herself during the dinner party argument was great
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
I thought it was a great episode. Great in that it didn't center around Hannah and allowed the other characters to continue being fleshed out, not only did it show it was worth following them as well, but it gave you a little break from Hannah, while letting her be great comic relief.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
anything that reps for mary mccarthy is good as far as i'm concerned. woefully underappreciated writer. but sort of on a different level entirely than everyone else mentioned, i thought.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Read The Group a couple of years ago and loved it.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar also has views
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
lol
will always be my favorite athlete
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
wow
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
we should all be intently listening to voices of the next generation, hearing what they have to say and, when they are struggling to say it, help them to articulate better
this is an incredibly generous thing for someone to say
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
He'll never make it as a critic
― Moodles, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
lmao @ 'set of gay entourage'
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
I was just saying the other night that the thing that strikes (and annoys) me most about this show is how damn dramatic every single person and thing is. I mean I remember being 25 and I don't ever remember it being like that. It's tiring just to watch! I'm not really fighter though. I don't know.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Monday, February 4, 2013 3:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
yeah I feel like, half the scenes feel like they were written for a high school drama class
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, February 5, 2013 12:35 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark
seems to be a running gag whenever she's gonna be in a emotionally tense situation, cf a few episodes ago where she's just eating cool whip from a tub
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
anyway I'm glad that they made jessa likeable, also ray gives me strong david schwimmer vibes idk
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
yeah exactly, I felt like :/ for laughing at first but now that it's a thing it's kinda funny the moments when she does it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
she should make a funny face and say "ack!" too when she does it.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like ray has been kinda defanged in this season, i am psyched that next week he is back at work & so can perhaps be portrayed as his unimpressable snarky self.
this episode was so good, anyway. like i am still sorta bugged that it's made the shift to chronicling relationship drama over just engagement with the world & jobs & being outside near other humans &c but the last three scenes, jessa & the guy arguing, shoshanna & ray being all syrupy & having the you don't have any interests conversation & then jessa convincingly crying, they were all so affecting. i feel like it's made a slight detour into ~brooklyn humour~, like the website editor who tells hannah to go do coke, or the pretentious conceptual artist or the artisinal mustard thing, like all of these feel like slightly generic inside baseball tangents to take, to me, but this ep managed to be really affecting anyway.
― schlump, Saturday, 9 February 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
Artisinal Mustard could be a Portlandia skit.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 9 February 2013 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
validated by the accolades line but yeah i feel like that kinda thing is sorta voguish stereotypical generica
― schlump, Saturday, 9 February 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
this ep is p classic
― johnny crunch, Monday, 11 February 2013 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
heavy 'louie' vibes
― johnny crunch, Monday, 11 February 2013 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
ok, that was fantastic
― emilys., Monday, 11 February 2013 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, wow
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Monday, 11 February 2013 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
that was great.so happy to see she was the writer at the end.definitely the one to show to people who think Girls is all hype and no heart.
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 February 2013 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
yeah how I felt. Also definitely the one to show anyone who thinks Lena Dunham isn't being reflective or lacks insight into her weird characters and their up-fuckedness.
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Monday, 11 February 2013 06:19 (eleven years ago) link
not so be super crepey but up until now i've kinda found her unattractive but this somehow clicked through.also a good reminder to never ever ever have sex with women under the age of thirty ever again. that bird has flown.
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 February 2013 06:22 (eleven years ago) link
We've just watched all of the first season and caught up with what's been shown of season 2 thus far (except last night's episode) in about the last week. Can't quite decide if everyone in it is a douchebag or just misunderstood and conflicted. Suspect the latter. Thoroughly enjoying it, but we've not really got anywhere since Generation X, have we?
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 11 February 2013 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
this season has actually been exceptional
the show is turning into something else entirely lately and i am digging the fuck out of it
― monotony, Monday, 11 February 2013 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
That was like a perfect dream/fantasy sequence including walking out of her job.
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Monday, 11 February 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
glad to see Adam back next week.
― ω (carne asada), Monday, 11 February 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
i love her, and i love this ep
i just quietly wish she would stop wearing those terrible ugly romper shorts/matching tops
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
^
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
It's amazingly effective costuming, though. Funny how she looked a zillion times better in his sweater, huh?
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, that was really the highlight of the whole ep -- just the shot of her lounging with the newspaper and dressed in grown-up clothes.
found her freakout too excruciating to watch.
dude clearly was more interested in humoring her than engaging with her from the start though.
― s.clover, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
also a good reminder to never ever ever have sex with women under the age of thirty ever again.
that's a pretty gross take-away imo.
Anyway, this episode got to me. She blasts him for not revealing about himself, when, in the beginning of the episode, for a dude of his type, he actually gave her quite a lot of data, especially considering the way she showed up. I love how she didn't get the details quite right, and the way he quietly counters "san diego." Also, the Josh/Joshua thing. The way she flicks her tongue when he first says it, and she uses it against him later.
Her emotions in the episode and her batshit way of expressing them are so otm to me. She looks gorgeous, too. I have always liked her small-titted mermaid body, and here I think the nudity actually serves a purpose of showing the character in this kind of simply happy, unarmed state.
The way she comments on the "fixtures" and how everything is nice in the house, even the lemonade glass, seemed gross at first, but I realized I have had the same inner monologues...And yeah, the romper was wack, but I can see being a certain age and not really grasping how to dress for it--it suited the character. I don't know, I kind of love Hannah.
― emilys., Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
it def showed a lot more of inner hannah than I realized, in a really good way
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
the Josh/Joshua thing was straight out of Friends
― Number None, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
every generation gets the Friends it deserves
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
was definitely feeling that monologue about happiness & loneliness p heavily
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
s/o to myself, btw
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
I've read that Dunham tries on the show's outfits with shapewear but eschews it on set so that it won't fit quite right, which is a nice touch.
― blatherskite, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
i know this is slightly off-topic but I can't get over how big that shower was
also hannah looked so lovely all tattooed and naked on the big white bed that next morning
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://jezebel.com/5983437/what-kind-of-guy-does-a-girl-who-looks-like-lena-dunham-deserve
but yeah i couldn't understand or relate to the 'i want to be happy' monologue at all, or even sort of process it as a thing someone would say. like even for someone without filters, you need to be without filters to just spill all that out.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
I have a friend from college who is a writerly type and all the stuff lena/hannah says about wanting to experience it all just to be able to write about them ... is that some platitude they teach in creative writing classes
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
dedicate this to the ep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nXoiG12-8g
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 03:52 (eleven years ago) link