Next Episode Of 'Girls' To Feature Lena Dunham Shi*tng Herself During Gyno Exam While Eating A Burrito — Page 2

I don't have HBO, so I've never seen it. But it doesn't sound like something I would want to watch.

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PRS, that actually was my relationship with Homeland until I soured on it greatly in their final episodes of Season 2. With Girls, the characters can be maddening and like I said before the focus on what the show wants to be in either Hannah as a sort of Carrie Bradshaw (not to go into reductive Sex and The City comparisons but that is the best way I can describe how Hannah is the focus of some episodes) or an ensemble show can get frustrating.

It fits the awkwardness at a certain age themes that Judd Apatow's TV Shows like Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared (though that was always much broader than the other shows). Oddly the high school, college, and post-college stages seems like a natural progression for those three shows that it seems so obvious why Apatow called Dunham to make this show. Dunham and Apatow work better on 30-60 minutes spurts and I think they have much more confidence in their direction for their characters than other comedies do, certainly more than network comedies just because of episode allotment. Though I will say if this season is any indication, this was more Dunham's call because the lighter, sweeter side of season 1 was mostly coming from Apatow's suggestions according to Dunham.

I watched the entire first season and the first episode of season 2 and decided that Girls was some sort of secret military endurance test designed to weed out the weak in order to get more suitable soldiers in the event the draft was restored.

In this case I'm proud to state that I'll not need to move Canada, but would happily do so if it ensured that I can avoid ever seeing another second of this self-indulgent, try too hard, overrated crap fest.

Oh, and The Mindy Project too. Can we ban that in my Canada as well?

Interesting. I absolutely love THE MINDY PROJECT.

I think they got rid of the wrong receptionist.

I like Beth Grant, but I was surprised they brought her on after all the talk about paring down the cast. I hope Anna Camp is making bank for this show because her role has been thankless.

And I'm already tired of the "will they/won't they?" stuff with Danny.

You and I are the same page about Dr. Reed, though. That dude is fine.

Updated On: 3/17/13 at 11:52 AM

Girls and Enlightened (not sure this is everyone's cup of tea either but the most recent season was amazing) have similar ratings and equal critical acclaim (but Enlightened easily beats it in Season 2 performance on that front) but it seems with one show the derisiveness and need for somebody to write a think piece on why they hate the show each week carries it further in conversations. The fact it is a divisive water cooler show is arguably one of the reasons why one got renewed instantly while the other is hanging by a thread for a third season.

And I feel like with The Mindy Project there is always something good within an episode I check in on. The problem is every episode feels like a different show. Watching a show undergoing that much re-tooling feels a little weird and its renewal is still pretty surprising. I agree, I don't get why they let go of the other receptionist and along with under-utilizing Anna Camp it's also a crime to also hire Stephen Tobolowsky, not use him, and pretty much mutually agreeing to let him leave too. I feel like maybe they should have had Mindy and Danny had just been friends from the beginning which would somehow make their borderline 'In real like that's a trip to HR' insults at each other at work much more understandable. The guest-star one episode runs of late have been good but again, episode to episode feels like a different show.

|And I feel like with The Mindy Project there is always something good within an episode I check in on. The problem is every episode feels like a different show. Watching a show undergoing that much re-tooling feels a little weird and its renewal is still pretty surprising. |

This is how I feel about The Mindy Project. It also seems lik when they get a good thing going, suddenly it's dropped.

Speaking of spoof, has everyone seen this video?
Lena Dunham Auditions for Zero Dark Thirty

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Dammit, I actually really liked the damn finale. "You're here." "I've always been here." Somehow that was super sweet.

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With The Mindy Project, it seems like just as I start really liking something or someone--they are dropped. I actually grew to like Mindy's sport agent asshole boyfriend and to suddenly have it revealed he had a secret girlfriend seemed a bit much (I get that the concept of the show is her remaining single, but...). I was a big fan of Amanda Setton (sp?) from One Life to Live so liked her as the receptionist, but she was fired (I've seen countless frankly misogynistic comments saying that both her firing, and the contract downgrade of Mindy's blonde friend from True Blood were due to Mindy herself not liking to work with "prettier" women.) Returning to the IMHO not remotely funny older receptionist seems a ste backwards.

I loved the Girls finale--but I get that it's a show that simply won't appeal to many.

It bothers me that in the print ads for the Mindy Project, Mindy's skin tone is lightened considerably and she slimmed down and the Girls ads Lena is trimmed down as well.

GO GIRL POWER! WTF?

I guess Lena had a squirting vagina scene that was nixed by HBO-I guess there are some standards.

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