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Lena Dunham Takes Questions from Miranda July
1
Look, I can enthusiastically watch Girls and have a hearty laugh, especially at the caricatures of men on the show (disclosure, I'm a dude), but I will BURN IT ALL DOWN if Miranda July makes any further attempt to put herself near it.
2
I do not get the praise for Lena Dunham and Girls. Unformed, uninteresting people (and she seems fixated on everyone knowing every part of of her body whether we want to or not). I hope her 10 minutes are over soon.
3
This should be a killer comments section, two controversial women!
My two cents:
Miranda July: No... No, No no no no
Lena Dunham: Yup! She's funny!
My two cents:
Miranda July: No... No, No no no no
Lena Dunham: Yup! She's funny!
4
That interview is essentially watching two women in park slope take up an entire sidewalk with their double-wide stroller, talking about eastern medicine, and smelling their own farts. Voice of a new generation of vapid, rich, entitled women. Who cares.
7
I agree with @3. I just watched the first five episodes of "Girls" and just about died laughing. Seriously, I don't think people understand how comedy works. Have none of you ever seen "Seinfeld" or "The Office" (especially the UK one) or "The Larry Sanders Show"? You're SUPPOSED to be uncomfortable. "Unformed"? Yeah, because that's what makes it real, fer chrissakes; that's what makes it not like "Friends".
Is Lena Dunham a fantastic person or not? Who cares? The show is good.
Miranda July leaves me real cold, though.
Is Lena Dunham a fantastic person or not? Who cares? The show is good.
Miranda July leaves me real cold, though.
9
The interesting aspect about Girls is that it is very honest about the reality of being a 20 something, even if the actresses/characters come from money and educational pedigrees -- The sense that you know everything you need to know about the world and that you're a superstar in your own mind who's going to conquer it---after which the real world hands you your ass on a platter.
10
The shocking thing about Girls to some people is that it's not all Sex and the City, but more like real life.
12
That's a great interview with a fantastic introduction, but I do not understand how Lena Dunham finds the new Uber app confusing. It's SO much nicer than the old version.
13
@7 -- Girls was one of my favorite television shows from 2012, but I honestly don't know that I laughed out loud more than once or twice during the whole season. Like, many episodes of Downton Abbey have more LOLs/hour. This is not a dig on the show, (aside from the "comedy routine" parts of the show) that's approximately my experience with the also-exeptional so-called comedy, Louie, too.
14
@13,
That only increases the appeal to me. I'm really tired of comedies that are structured to deal out one laugh-out-loud joke per minute. Even if all the jokes were funny, which they invariably are not, I just get sick of it. Can a modern day comedy writer give me five fucking minutes of plot development before the next crappy joke?
That only increases the appeal to me. I'm really tired of comedies that are structured to deal out one laugh-out-loud joke per minute. Even if all the jokes were funny, which they invariably are not, I just get sick of it. Can a modern day comedy writer give me five fucking minutes of plot development before the next crappy joke?
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not really trying to be the curmudgeon on this topic, but do find it astounding that dunham or july inspire anything positive in anyone. but to each her own.
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@7: From the criticism I have seen, it is not so much about the writing or humor, but more because the show is actually "Privileged, Entitled White Girls."
Never seen the show, but this is the most common criticism I hear.
@13, 14: Totally agree: a well written show can inspire many emotions, not just the one that is closley tied to the genre. Shows like Louie and Moral Orel for instance transcended genre and the medium itself to make fairly deep, artistic statements. This is when both shows were at their best, not just gunning for yuks.
Even though they were still funny.
Never seen the show, but this is the most common criticism I hear.
@13, 14: Totally agree: a well written show can inspire many emotions, not just the one that is closley tied to the genre. Shows like Louie and Moral Orel for instance transcended genre and the medium itself to make fairly deep, artistic statements. This is when both shows were at their best, not just gunning for yuks.
Even though they were still funny.
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