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TedKoppel posted:I thought David Mamet's daughter was by far the weakest character, since she strikes me as too extreme an exaggeration to register as in any way honest. That criticism aside, I found myself not quite so repulsed by the characters in this episode and I'll stick around for at least a week. People who have seen the three episodes say that you grow into the show, and I could feel myself pushing in that direction. The job interview was pretty drat funny and Lena Dunham's character's propensity to say whatever popped into her head struck me as being more funny and less repulsive this time around. Honestly I think that all the characters, except maybe Hannah, still feel more like caricatures than real characters. Ok it's only been 44 minutes so far, maybe it gets better, but it'll be interesting to see if they manage to open them up some more.
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| # ¿ Apr 23, 2012 11:38 |
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| # ¿ May 22, 2013 04:13 |
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There's a lot in this show being slightly overstated for comedic effect and it will continue to be, tv only has to be realistic to an extent. I mean even The Wire took liberties. Good episode though, characters beginning to grow.
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| # ¿ May 1, 2012 02:51 |
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Rudy Riot posted:Yeah, the dick-pic stuff was great. I didn't like the baby-sitting stuff. That character is so lame, and that scene of her speechifying to the nannies about unions/whatever made me cringe more than laugh. She's gonna gently caress that old dad. Was that Horatio Sanz as the dad's friend!? Dude got skinny. Yeah her character is still kind of the least understood of them all right now, mostly because 'the point' of her character dominates who her character is too much. I'm betting that with time it'll get better though, over the past 4 episodes all the characters have grown so it's not a huge problem.
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| # ¿ May 7, 2012 10:21 |
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Christmas Jones posted:Oh no. It's just that film school is fundamentally absurd. Thoughts I had while attending: "Hetero men are more threatened by gay cowboys than gay interior decorators and I WILL PROVE IT," "If I write a screenplay I will do it with no hero just to spite Joseph Campbell shut up Joseph Campbell," and "FINE, we'll do our final critique on 'Teen Witch' since it means so much to my partner." Joseph Campbell has become the thing that holds so many young writers back from actually being any good, it's fascinating how people can adhere to an idea so closely and not even understand it.
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| # ¿ May 16, 2012 09:35 |
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hope and vaseline posted:This loving show! I kept expecting the almost 3-way scene to end, but it just keeps going, and going, and getting more amazing. OH god his mash-ups of kids singing and the monkeys. Well he probably has a whole slew of emotional problems. I mean he probably became an alcoholic for a reason.
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| # ¿ Jun 4, 2012 21:55 |
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| # ¿ May 22, 2013 04:13 |
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Prof. Moriarty posted:That happened last season as well, with the attempt at anal sex and the outburst over the spilled wine (and the subsequent marriage, suggesting that such actions are totally A-OK from romantic prospects). My friend is presenting on this very topic--the normalization of sexual violence in Girls--on a panel in a few months, and is extremely chagrined/excited about all of the new material showing up this season. I dunno, it's not like the show isn't trying to imply that they're all on a bad path/don't know what the hell they're doing.
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| # ¿ Jan 28, 2013 10:55 |
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