Wait. So you are saying a female AOL-bot is bad?
Well, I loved the finale. The final shot w/ Hannah and the cake was really great. Lots of great scenes throughout. What did the rest of you think?
Here’s an expansive (re: very long) interview Alan Sepinwall did w/ Lena Dunham and producer Jenni Konner. It’s a good post-season wrap-up.
I enjoyed the season as a whole in general and the finale in particular. I think the show suffered a bit because the pilot was probably the weakest episode (although I enjoyed it as well) but the show just got better and better as it went along. Looking forward to next season.
I missed the last two episodes because hubby was watching basketball. Without the Game of Thrones lead-in, he cannot be bothered with HBO. Grrrr.
I’ll catch Girls (and Veep) on demand. Or HBO to Go.
Well, I give up. I gave it a full season, and I guess I just don’t get it. I guess I’m officially an old fogey. I have to Lena Dunham credit for keeping me interested enough to want to see it through a whole season, though, but the finale was just one WTF after another for me.
It definitely seems to be a very divisive show. People either really enjoy it (like myself and my wife) and others completely hate it. They talk about it in the interview I linked to above.
I loved every second of Adam’s takedown of Hannah. It was totally deserved. Her self-pity is so self-indulgent and self-centered.
Well, yeah. I mean, the whole series is very self-aware about the fact that these are all assholes, isn’t it? Or am I giving Lena Dunham too much credit? I don’t think I am. It just doesn’t work for me.
Finally saw them. I was totally surprised by Jessa’s marriage to the rich creep. I’m totally wondering if Shoshana liked what she got and I’m again flabbergasted by Adam’s erratic behavior.
Also, Jessa’s husband-- where have I seen him before?
Actually, this time I was totally on board with him.
Apparently he’s an Irish actor named [URL=“http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1483369/”]Chris O’Dowd. I don’t think I’ve seen him before, but he was in The IT Crowd.
If you’ve seen Bridesmaids, he was the cop/love interest.
Ah ha! I knew I had vestigial feelings of niceness about him, even though his character reminds me of the older men I ran into at clubs when I was young a thousand years ago. Creepy.
Nevermind
Just read that Jemima Kirke, the girl who got married in the last episode, is pregnant in real life. Now I can’t wait to see if they incorporate the pregnancy or hide it.
Anyone watching the second season?
I found the latest episode — “One Man’s Trash” (episode 5) — interesting, particularly at the point at which Hannah started babbling her self-absorbed nonsense and you could see the very moment in Joshua’s face when he realized how immature she was.
I’m watching but I really was confused by that episode. It almost seemed like a dream or fantasy sequence.
I think the ending showed it wasn’t a dream. She screwed things up in her usual Hannah way, not that it was ever going to be a long-term thing. She just caught Joshua at the right point in his life for a brief fling with an available, young woman.
Could be… I just found the tone of the episode very different and maybe the fantasy feel comes from wondering what a Joshua would ever see in a Hannah past a very brief one night stand. I kept expecting it to show it was a dream or have some weird dark secret that Joshua had. I wasn’t a big fan of it actually - maybe cause there’s only so much of Hannah I can take without being supplemented with the other supporting cast LOL.
Well yeah he wouldn’t. But he’s a well meaning and sincere enough person and sufficiently lonely and hurting that he might be able to fool himself for a day or so. That’s what made the story realistic to me.
Agreed. But I have to admire Dunham’s willingness to portray herself so starkly. There is almost nothing redeeming or admirable or endearing about her character. And that is realistic for a certain age.
I hope more people post on this board.
I just started watching Season 2, On Demand, and I’m really liking it. I saw episode 5, “One Man’s Trash” last night, and thought it was totally over the top. It’s the first one that I didn’t care for. There were too many little things that didn’t add up: He was supposedly a doctor, yet he could just call in “sick”. No patients or hospital visits to worry about. No phone calls from his office or for emergencies? If you’ve ever lived with a doctor, you know how ridiculous that is!
Also, and I know this is nit-picking, but when Hannah finally left his house and walked down the street, I noticed right away that she had no purse or cell phone, etc. Unrealistic in today’s world. I doubt even Hannah would spend 48 hours at a man’s house with no handbag, backpack, cell phone or any means of identification?
I liked the episode, “I Get Ideas”, the best so far. Loved the title song that played over the credits at the end.