Girls - Season 2 - Sundays on HBO

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maharg said:
I can honestly say I don't get why you guys watch the show.
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I like it. I just don't give a shit about Hannah. What's so weird about that. That's the only negative thing I said really.

I just didn't think this episode was great. I clearly said it wasn't bad either. I enjoy watching Marnie/Ray/Adam/everyone. I just don't get the hannah stuff. Not feeling it. I'm not one who hate watches. I'm also not a faux-critic like a lot of people on forums are. If I'm entertained I keep watching. I'm entertained. Thus, I shall keep watching.
 
the acoustic stronger cover was hilarious oh my god.

dark episode. i thought hannah melting down further under any kind of responsibility worked better as a continuation this time than the sudden ocd out of nowhere.
 
What Pyro said. I keep watching for Adam, Ray/Shosh, and Charlie/Marnie; I think the dudes on the show are infinitely more interesting. Hannah's character is seriously lacking, and its especially apparent when she spends entire eps away from everyone else.

And I'm still rolling my eyes over the OCD stuff.
 
And I find the show funny. I might not feel the drama sometimes especially with certain characters like Hannah, though I was fine but the OCD thing kind of took me out of it, it's like they raised the stakes so high out of nowhere.

But it's still pretty damn funny. "Did you just say bassoon?"
 
-Pyromaniac- said:
I like it. I just don't give a shit about Hannah. What's so weird about that. That's the only negative thing I said really.

I just didn't think this episode was great. I clearly said it wasn't bad either. I enjoy watching Marnie/Ray/Adam/everyone. I just don't get the hannah stuff. Not feeling it. I'm not one who hate watches. I'm also not a faux-critic like a lot of people on forums are. If I'm entertained I keep watching. I'm entertained. Thus, I shall keep watching.
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I really don't mean it to come off derogatory, I guess I should have clarified better. To me the only novel thing about this show is Hannah, and her awkward awkward struggle. Everyone else feels more like a plot tool to me. I find people finding other characters in this show interesting, particularly Adam and Ray, actually, really odd.
 
maharg said:
I really don't mean it to come off derogatory, I guess I should have clarified better. To me the only novel thing about this show is Hannah, and her awkward awkward struggle. Everyone else feels more like a plot tool to me. I find people finding other characters in this show interesting, particularly Adam and Ray, actually, really odd.
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I'm just not adjusting to Hannah lately. I wasn't so negative on her earlier when it was "oh hannah being hannah" with her panicking and general struggling but now I feel like things have taken this absolutely SERIOUS turn so fast and it kind of lost me.

I have the same criticism of this show that I do with a show like Louis, which is another one critics go absolutely gaga for. I really like that show too but to me I kind of dislike it when it tries too hard to be "deep" or "serious". Always comes off a tad forced to me. But sometimes both shows pull it off and it's pretty awesome to have that in a show like they both are.

As for the other characters, my appeal is that Adam is just hilarious and weird and it's just interesting to watch. Never know what he'll say or do. Ray is one I can see why not only me but a lot like, he is very relatable (not a word?) and someone you can really feel for with his "normal guy" on the fast track to absolutely nowhere personality. It's sad and endearing but he's also really funny and great so you root for him. He is jaded like a lot of people are!
 
Hannah and Marnie in particular are eyeroll-worthy almost 90% of the time they're on screen. Hannah, just because she irritating; and Marnie, because she's a terrible person.

Marnie, seemingly has no end in her quest to continue to be pathetic. Chris should have pulled an Adam and then reminded her of that time she dumped him before zipping up and rejoining his party. That would have been an acceptable response after the way she treated him while they were together.

I've seen enough. I'm out after this season. I just don't like/care about any of the character's.
 
God this what a great episode. Everyone was making terrible decisions left and right. Adam.....man you went all out.
 
So if HBO has a scene in one of their series that shows semen on tits, if I posted a pic that I found from that scene, would there be repercussions?

People forget that the mind is the most erogenous zone.
 
inm8num2 said:
This show is a fucking disaster, but maybe not entirely in a bad way.

I was liking Adam's growth, then he went psycho at the end.
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But the psycho part is part of who he is. I think he was getting nervous with how well it was going...and how good she is for him. He wanted (or needed I guess) to show her a real dark side to him...his fucked up apartment wasn't enough to show that to her (it didn't bother her at all).
 
gdt said:
But the psycho part is part of who he is. I think he was getting nervous with how well it was going...and how good she is for him. He wanted (or needed I guess) to show her a real dark side to him...his fucked up apartment wasn't enough to show that to her (it didn't bother her at all).
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Seeing Hannah derailed his burgeoning relationship. His darkness might have gradually seeped in with time, but once he saw Hannah he went nuts.

Also, Shoshanna is fucking idiot. "Held the doorman's hand"? That is the worst euphemism ever created, and Ray's blind acceptance at face value was even worse.

Honestly, this show has rare moments of honest portrayals of people under emotional duress, but it's just too random and inconsistent. It feels like a mosaic of various jokes or awkward situations thought up at different times, then combined without much to hold it together.
 
everthustodeadbeats said:
So if HBO has a scene in one of their series that shows semen on tits, if I posted a pic that I found from that scene, would there be repercussions?

People forget that the mind is the most erogenous zone.
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It's not real cum so I say go for it.

It's like that exploding head newscaster gif. If it was real it might be questionable, but it's not so you can go nuts.
 
Random girl gets pounded from behind and then jizzed on, while Marnie has sex completely clothed. Dammit.

Adam is still my favorite character on the show. He's like a honey badger that someone set loose upon New York. Who or what will he dominate next?
 
gdt said:
But the psycho part is part of who he is. I think he was getting nervous with how well it was going...and how good she is for him. He wanted (or needed I guess) to show her a real dark side to him...his fucked up apartment wasn't enough to show that to her (it didn't bother her at all).
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It seemed like he was getting nervous, but then seeing Hannah really set him off.
 
I liked/cringed at the scene where Marnie sang the Kanye song. At first I thought it was a parody or done in an ironic manner or something, but nope. Totally serious. Wow.

I didn't really like the rest of the episode though. The stuff with Hannah was very weak - I know they hinted at it back in season 1 and she's under a lot of stress, but the onset and the severity of her disease feels way too sudden and forced. I liked the OCD stuff last week, though, probably because it felt like a one off type thing. A self contained OCD adventure. It worked for me. It feels wrong for them to stretch it out across multiple episodes, though.

I didn't really like any of the stuff with Shoshana and Ray or Adam and his new gf, either. It all just fell flat.
 
So, I don't have OCD and I don't know anyone who does, but I know people with severe mental illness (depression and schizophrenia in particular) and the suddenness of its onset did not strike me as very unusual. If anything it struck me as more real than most television portrayals of severe mental illness, which I suppose could be jarring in and of itself.

I've seen a few comments from people who have it who seem to appreciate the portrayal as well. Not to say that there probably aren't people who have it and found it insulting in some way, just that what I've observed has been mostly positive except for here and in a couple of reviews.

Some googles produced this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alison-dotson/girls-hannah-ocd-symptoms_b_2831733.html
https://www.facebook.com/EverythingOCD (search for girls, couldn't find a way to link to the specific post)
 
Tell Me You Love Me had Sonya Walger or whatever her name showed her give her husband a handjob and the actual cum shot. Of course it was a prosthetic but it was still more graphic than the Girls scene.
 
Van Owen said:
Tell Me You Love Me had Sonya Walger or whatever her name showed her give her husband a handjob and the actual cum shot. Of course it was a prosthetic but it was still more graphic than the Girls scene.
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Yep. Tell Me You Love Me easily had the most graphic sex I've ever seen on a TV show. If you didn't know any better you would think it was unsimulated.
 
It's not even that big a deal. Nice breasts though. Fucking Adam.

On a general note now, I have never seen so much wrongheaded watching of a show, ever.
 
maharg said:
So, I don't have OCD and I don't know anyone who does, but I know people with severe mental illness (depression and schizophrenia in particular) and the suddenness of its onset did not strike me as very unusual. If anything it struck me as more real than most television portrayals of severe mental illness, which I suppose could be jarring in and of itself.

I've seen a few comments from people who have it who seem to appreciate the portrayal as well. Not to say that there probably aren't people who have it and found it insulting in some way, just that what I've observed has been mostly positive except for here and in a couple of reviews.

Some googles produced this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alison-dotson/girls-hannah-ocd-symptoms_b_2831733.html
https://www.facebook.com/EverythingOCD (search for girls, couldn't find a way to link to the specific post)
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I have OCD and often experience the same type of symptoms that Hannah experiences on the show. It also comes suddenly without warning. I'm not saying that Hannah's OCD is unrealistic, just that it feels very sudden and forced, as a plot point. It just didn't sit well with me this week, for whatever reason.
 
Van Owen said:
Tell Me You Love Me had Sonya Walger or whatever her name showed her give her husband a handjob and the actual cum shot. Of course it was a prosthetic but it was still more graphic than the Girls scene.
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Wasn't that Adam Scott? Which reminds me, in the first or second episode of Deadwood Ron Swanson is butt naked, holding his half-erect dick.
 
RatskyWatsky said:
I have OCD and often experience the same type of symptoms that Hannah experiences on the show. It also comes suddenly without warning. I'm not saying that Hannah's OCD is unrealistic, just that it feels very sudden and forced, as a plot point. It just didn't sit well with me this week, for whatever reason.
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Her support system is gone. Professionaly she's under the most pressure imaginable. "You want to be a writer? You have one month." When are her undelying issues supposed to come up if not now?
 
Everything about that episode was uncomfortable. This pleases me.

The scene with Nat at the end was especially brutal though. I felt bad for her. Hannah definitely sped up the inevitable running in to Adam.
 
xenist said:
Her support system is gone. Professionaly she's under the most pressure imaginable. "You want to be a writer? You have one month." When are her undelying issues supposed to come up if not now?
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Again, I'm not saying it's unrealistic. It's very realistic and makes total sense given what Hannah's been through recently. That plot point just feels like it's coming from out of nowhere, but I can't really articulate why I feel that way.
 
I fucking love for whatever reason that Adam is doing well... That whole situation pleases me.
 
I didn't actually find the Kanye song cringeworthy at all. The show is so implausible at this point that nothing jars with the reality of the show anymore.
 
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