So I'm finally about to watch Girls

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I've seen Tiny Furniture before but not this, mostly due to the fact watching TV shows through Netflix that aren't streaming is annoying and any streaming show kind of pushed it aside. But Season 1 Disc 1 is home now. So does it start off good or does it take awhile to get started? I already know what type of show it is but I know some shows can be frustrating because they take so long to get into.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

That Pilot was pretty good and made me want to watch more. My only complaint is the characters are so unrealistic even by TV standards it's distracting and in that vein the dialogue often reaches Diablo Cody levels of absurdity and thinking "No one talks that way!" But hey it worked.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Why are you about to watch/watching Girls, BRTD?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Why are you about to watch/watching Girls, BRTD?

Because it's a show that's essentially custom made for people like me basically. And Lena Dunham is funny, Simfan's protests to the contrary.

[Хahar 🤔]

I was interested in the show as a concept, but I found that the sex scenes turned me off and nothing else was sufficiently compelling to outweigh that.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Why are you about to watch/watching Girls, BRTD?

Because it's a show that's essentially custom made for people like me basically.

Fair enough. The issue is that as far as I can tell almost all of the characters are people like you in some way or another. I imagine that might get a little boring eventually. I wouldn't appreciate Anne of Green Gables nearly as much if every character thought and acted along similar lines to Marilla, or Genji monogatari if Utsusemi and Lady Rokujo took over the whole plot.

(Actually, that's a lie; I'd LOVE Genji monogatari if Utsusemi and Lady Rokujo took over the whole plot, but that has more to do with the other characters than it does with them.)

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I consider that Lena Dunham is neither as unfunny and awful as Simfan thinks nor all that much funnier than the average person.

I was interested in the show as a concept, but I found that the sex scenes turned me off and nothing else was sufficiently compelling to outweigh that.

Watching sex scenes in general is basically an endurance test for me and this show--the first season, at least, which is the only one I've seen--has some pretty difficult ones, yeah.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Why are you about to watch/watching Girls, BRTD?

Because it's a show that's essentially custom made for people like me basically.

Fair enough. The issue is that as far as I can tell almost all of the characters are people like you in some way or another. I imagine that might get a little boring eventually. I wouldn't appreciate Anne of Green Gables nearly as much if every character thought and acted along similar lines to Marilla, or Genji monogatari if Utsusemi and Lady Rokujo took over the whole plot.

(Actually, that's a lie; I'd LOVE Genji monogatari if Utsusemi and Lady Rokujo took over the whole plot, but that has more to do with the other characters than it does with them.)

I now understand the incomprehensibility other posters feel when I post in depth stuff about Ingress.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I consider that Lena Dunham is neither as unfunny and awful as Simfan thinks

Is that his opinion? Then consider me absolutely and entirely converted: he should be allowed to post again.

[courts]

I consider that Lena Dunham is neither as unfunny and awful as Simfan thinks

Is that his opinion? Then consider me absolutely and entirely converted: he should be allowed to post again.

atlas is enough of a liberal echo chamber as it is

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Quite so.

[courts]

Quite so.

if it was enforceable i'd say we should ban anyone that actually watches that show. you know, for diversity's sake

[bedstuy]

I've thought about watching, but if the characters have the Diablo Cody quip disease, I really couldn't watch it.  Plus, living in Brooklyn, I see enough annoying spoiled white hipsters already.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I consider that Lena Dunham is neither as unfunny and awful as Simfan thinks

Is that his opinion? Then consider me absolutely and entirely converted: he should be allowed to post again.

He used her as a representative of everything that's wrong with contemporary America, more or less. (Mind that I disagree with him only in terms of extent; she's really not that funny and she's vaguely gross on a whole host of levels, but treating her as an avatar of cultural downfall is, I think, giving her too much credit.)

I've thought about watching, but if the characters have the Diablo Cody quip disease, I really couldn't watch it.  Plus, living in Brooklyn, I see enough annoying spoiled white hipsters already.

I live in the Pioneer Valley. Similar problem, different framing.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Free Simfan!

[© tweed]

I usually have short attention spans for watching shows but I did plow through the three seasons in less than a week ca. February.  mostly because a) I am in the target demographic and susceptible to that and b) I like looking at Allison Williams.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I was interested in the show as a concept, but I found that the sex scenes turned me off and nothing else was sufficiently compelling to outweigh that.

Yeah found that to be the case with the second episode's opening. Small part of it though and I can overlook stuff like that.

[badgate]

I have always loved the show, because my interpretation is that Lena Dunham is simultaneously slaying the common critique of Millennials and slaying Millennials themselves. Other people seem to hate it because they see it as a wholesale confirmation of the Millennial critique.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I hate it because I'm a Millennial and hate myself for it.

Joking. Sort of.

[LastVoter]

Lena Dunham is a female equivalent of Bushie in NYC (working class/middle class tragedy). So not very funny, but still fascinating to watch.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Lena Dunham is a female equivalent of Bushie in NYC (working class/middle class tragedy). So not very funny, but still fascinating to watch.

I'm assuming by Lena Dunham you mean her character because Lena Dunham the actual person is certainly not 'working-' or 'middle-class'.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I usually have short attention spans for watching shows but I did plow through the three seasons in less than a week ca. February.  mostly because a) I am in the target demographic and susceptible to that and b) I like looking at Allison Williams.

You seen her Ke$ha cover? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al9FOtZcadQ

[traininthedistance]

I've never watched Girls, and I don't really have any desire to.

However, I guess I count myself as a Lena Dunham defender, simply on the grounds that so much of the criticism of her is quite obviously horribly sexist and (sorry to use such a horribly tumbr-ish term but it's the only thing that really fits) body-shaming.  How dare someone who isn't an airbrushed supermodel film a nude scene!  (FWIW, if you think she's actually fat and ugly, you are an idiot, full stop.)  Enemy of my enemy is my friend, I guess.

[courts]

I have always loved the show, because my interpretation is that Lena Dunham is simultaneously slaying the common critique of Millennials and slaying Millennials themselves. Other people seem to hate it because they see it as a wholesale confirmation of the Millennial critique.

if by 'millennials' you really mean 'upper middle class white/jewish people with liberal arts degrees' (i.e. stuff white people like). although in fairness that's basically what 90% of the media has already decided we all are facts be damned.

[© tweed]

I have always loved the show, because my interpretation is that Lena Dunham is simultaneously slaying the common critique of Millennials and slaying Millennials themselves. Other people seem to hate it because they see it as a wholesale confirmation of the Millennial critique.

if by 'millennials' you really mean 'upper middle class white/jewish people with liberal arts degrees' (i.e. stuff white people like). although in fairness that's basically what 90% of the media has already decided we all are facts be damned.

the media is going to cater to people with discretionary income.

[LastVoter]

Lena Dunham is a female equivalent of Bushie in NYC (working class/middle class tragedy). So not very funny, but still fascinating to watch.

I'm assuming by Lena Dunham you mean her character because Lena Dunham the actual person is certainly not 'working-' or 'middle-class'.

Yes, the character. Obviously the actual person holds Californian ideology.