Girls Recap: Its About Time

Recaps

By RJ | Monday, January 14, 2013 | 5:11 pm | 9 Comments
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In the season two premiere, Lena Dunham assures us those HBO Diversity Day training courses didn’t go to waste.

The collective diversity of a Klan rally, or a Republican fundraiser

When we left the girls at the end of season one, Jessa had just surprised everyone by marrying the lame Thomas John, and her wedding was the cause of reassessment for the rest of the gang. Hannah realized that she was done chasing Adam, and he didn’t take it well. Unless you count getting hit by a truck as well. He actually took that pretty well and only ended up with a busted leg. Marnie realized that she was lonely, so lonely that she was willing to make out with Drunk Uncle. Shoshanna lost her virginity to Ray.

This season opens up to a hairy leg in Hannah’s bed. Is it hers? Lena Dunham certainly doesn’t shy away from nudity but has she taken to not shaving, too? The leg actually belongs to her ex-boyfriend turned boner sporting, gay roommate, Elijah, who probably had the best scene from season one when he told Hannah that she picked gay guys as lovers because her dad was gay and had the pierced ear to prove it. Her response being “he got that earring on a guy’s trip…that he took with all his male friends”. Usually writers are a little more introspective. Hannah is obviously a work in progress, though.

Hannah’s judgment is way off if she doesn’t trust this guy’s gaydar

Nothing proves her status as a work in progress like Hannah’s backslide into living with her gay ex, Elijah. The two keep exclaiming that they love living with each other, but it’s apparent that this is just a convenient way for neither of them to confront their issues and move forward in life. Ah, to be a twenty-something again.

For all the comparisons this show gets to “Sex and the City”- that it’s the Millennial generation’s voice and a less glamorous ode to self-discovery in the big city, I don’t see it. This show is “Seinfeld”, set in Brooklyn instead of Manhattan, without a laugh track. Its core cast is four assholes stuck in arrested development, who have little regard for growing up, maturing or treating the people around them with dignity or respect.

 

Let’s see if Donald Glover lasts about as long as Blair Underwood

Don’t worry, I can say that. Its how I’ve lived most of my life, too.

Since season one was lambasted for featuring absolutely zero diversity in a show set in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; Lena Dunham assuredly took those HBO Diversity Day training courses to heart, as she is now dating Sandy, played by Donald Glover. Way to disprove stereotypes, Lena Dunham. Black guys never like bigger white girls. Plus, it’s Childish freaking Gambino. He’s the whitest rapper this side of Macklemore. Was Carlton from “the Fresh Prince of Bel Aire” unavailable? Somehow in striving for diversity, you’ve managed to make this show even more stereotypical.

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I learned I was different in the third grade.  They would bring in our parents as tutors to help with difficult subjects like math, which is a testament to just how underfunded the California school system has always been.  Michael Weber's mother was tutoring me and one of my classmates in multiplication.  I did not care for the speed at which the lesson was progressing. 

I threw out a line from the most classic of movies, 'Back to the Future', when I simply stated "Let's see if these bastards can do 90!"  Michael Weber's mom was not impressed.

Its sad when the peak of your comedic career comes in the third grade, but I've never let that hinder me.  I still plug away at my boring day job while I dream of a day that I can tell the Michael Weber's moms of the world to suck it for not appreciating my sense of humor.

 

9 Comments

  1. 1
    Lo
    Posted January 14, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    Christopher Abbott’s character’s name is Charlie.

  2. 2
    RJ RJ
    Posted January 15, 2013 at 9:45 am

    Good catch. That was my mistake.

  3. 3
    Drit-er
    Posted January 15, 2013 at 10:30 am

    Thanks for the recap. This isn’t an easy one to do.
    Agree about the Seinfeld-esqueness of the show. Girls as the Millennial Sex and the City never jived with me, either. The only resemblance is four white chicks in NY looking for love in all the wrong places.
    Yet its appeal is something I can’t explain to myself. I grudgingly tune in, rejoice that I am well past all that 20-something nonsense, and alternately roll my eyes and shout out motherly advice to this little band of lost souls.
    There’s something about it though that keeps bringing me back. Maybe it’s the cringing honesty and awkwardness of it all.
    But what do I know? I loved Lisa Kudrow’s The Comeback.

  4. 4
    DM
    Posted January 15, 2013 at 12:17 pm

    For comparison’s sake, the show I see is an all female cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia set in Brooklyn instead of Philadelphia. The fast talking banter where all the characters just end up yelling over each other but it’s somehow hilarious, some of the hair brained schemes the main characters come up with, and hilarious portrayal of recreational crack use is what does it for me.

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    annie annie
    Posted January 15, 2013 at 6:36 pm

    Thanks for the recap! I do like this show alot…..I hated the first few episodes, but then I re-watched them in a marathon session OnDemand. I am glad I gave it a second chance.

    This show reminds me so much of post college life: house parties in shitty apartments, meeting guys, avoiding guys, getting in petty fights with friends, weird wardrobes, and the awkwardness of becoming a true adult. It’s like what Sex and the City could have been without the $1000 shoes and $25 Cosmos.

    Lena Dunham gets alot of shit thrown her way, I just don’t get it. I feel she’s really ballsy and throws herself completely out there, which I can appreciate.

  6. 6
    badgerfreak
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 6:20 am

    I was happy to see Hannah stand up for herself against Adam’s newly confessed love. I despise so much about him that it was good for her to finally say, “I’m taking care of me now, instead of everyone else first.”
    I hope Chris O’Dowd’s American accent gets better, because oof, it is ROUGH right now.
    As a mid 20′s gal myself, even I look at these girls and roll my eyes. Then again, I’m from Milwaukee, not Manhattan. Maybe that has something to do with it.
    I loved Rita Wilson as Marnie’s Mom. She played it so well. There definitely are parents like that out there.
    I both hate and love the show. Either way, I tune in every Sunday to watch!

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    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 8:37 am

    Great recap. So glad I’m not in my twenties.

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    NotWithoutMyTV NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted January 18, 2013 at 6:01 am

    If you saw Lincoln, did you recognize Adam Driver as the White House telegraph officer? It took me a few minutes to figure out where the heck I knew him from.

    I, too, really wish the Sex and the Fucking City comparisons would end. I don’t find the shows to be at all alike, and it’s just an easy a comparison for lazy TV writers to make. That, and I get sucked into watching Girls (you always know whatever action Dunham’s characters are taking will end badly, but you want to be there to see what flavor of bad it turns out to be), and I couldn’t flee the room fast enough when that insipid Sex and the City theme music started playing. I think part of it is that although Girls isn’t always realistic, there ARE consequences to the character’s actions. The character of Carrie Bradshaw was always a complete asshole, and was generally rewarded with shoes and jobs and sex for BEING an asshole. Example: Carrie never had any discernable talent as a writer, but was a semi-famous columnist is a major-market newspaper; Hannah doesn’t seem to have developed much writing talent yet, and she’s chronically underemployed. One rings much truer than the other.

    Go, Lena Dunham! (And just show us Marnie’s boobs, already. This is getting redonkulous. What, is Brian William’s daughter the only one with an “implied nudity only” clause in her contract?)

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    RJ RJ
    Posted January 18, 2013 at 10:40 am

    Now that there is a second person asking to see Marnie’s boobs, I’m going to start a We the People petition on the White House’s website. I’m sure thats what President Obama had in mind when he started the program. And no side boob either, real boobs for 5 seconds at least, or I’ll march on Washington.

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