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What ACLU’s ‘Modern Family’ Marriage Campaign Says About Our Politicized, Wedding-Obsessed Culture

By Tyler Coates on

Yesterday, ACLU Action launched an online campaign urging producers of the massively popular sitcom Modern Family to incorporate a gay-wedding narrative in the show’s sixth season. In an era when no major network shows feature an openly gay character (this season saw the cancellations of The New Normal, Partners, Happy Endings, and Smash), Modern Family stands out in that it features two gay characters who are in a monogamous relationship and are raising an adopted daughter. The ACLU’s campaign argues that the couple should be wed, just like the two heterosexual couples on the show. Despite the good intentions on display, the campaign is completely absurd. … Read More

Books

‘Adulting’ Author Kelly Williams Brown’s Open Letters to the Girls of ‘Girls’ on How to Grow Up

By Emily Temple on

This week, the hilarious Kelly Williams Brown of Adulting publishes her first book, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps, a witty and wise instruction manual for getting it together at — let’s not lie — pretty much any age. To put her skills to the test, we asked Brown to give a little advice to the women in our lives that are most in need of it — the characters of Girls, of course. After the jump, find Brown’s open letters (she’s careful to note, “These letters would be unspeakably rude, if these people weren’t, um, fictional”) to Hannah, Marnie, Shoshanna, and Jessa. … Read More

Television

7 Great Songs Written for TV Shows

By Alison Herman on

Last week’s installment of Game of Thrones capped off its cliffhanger ending with a rollicking Hold Steady cover of “The Bear and the Maiden Fair,” the medieval drinking song debuted earlier in the episode. The track, along with its Season 2 predecessor “The Rains of Castamere,” was a reminder that while film traditionally gets the lion’s share of… Read More

Television

Flavorwire Interview: Creator Anthony DiMieri on Why ‘Bros’ Is More Than Just a ‘Girls’ Parody

By Chloe Pantazi on

Back in February, we came across the trailer for Bros, a parody web series of Girls that swaps Hannah and her surrogate sisters for a pack of post-grad bros living in Manhattan. The trailer offered a peek at the many shenanigans of the show’s first episode, “Williamsburg,” released earlier this month. Bad pick-up lines abound in the pilot, in which the four bros practice chatting up girls in Bedford Avenue bars (one interrupts an OKCupid date and another gets his package checked out by a guy in the bathroom line). All the while, there’s plenty of PBR-swigging, video games, sequins, and LCD Soundsystem amid a healthy smattering of dick jokes. … Read More

Pop Culture

12 Actors and Directors on Shooting Sex Scenes

By Alison Nastasi on

This week, we learned that director Harmony Korine cast a woman who could balance “three or four Coke cans on her ass” in his debauched Spring Breakers. It also turns out that star Gucci Mane couldn’t stop smoking weed long enough to successfully perform a sex scene with her in the movie. Vulture interviewed Korine, who revealed that the rapper-actor — who plays a rival drug lord to James Franco’s Alien — fell asleep during his big sex scene. “As he is getting f*cked, I start to hear snores,” said Korine. “He had literally passed out!” It’s an amusing anecdote, but it left us wondering how actors and directors handle those moments on the big screen. Do they really enjoy them? Is it always awkward? Check out the on-screen sex confessions of film and television’s finest past the break. … Read More

Television

The Best Critical Responses to the End of ‘Girls’ Season 2

By Chloe Pantazi on

As with the end of most episodes of Girls, its Season 2 finale, “Together,” leaves us with more answers than questions: Should Hannah and Adam have been reunited after that shameful potential rape scene last week? Is Adam really in a position to help Hannah? Why did Shoshanna and Ray have to break up? What’s the deal with Marnie and Charlie getting back together? Oh, and where did Jessa go (and did she get her vagina pierced)? Now that we’ve had 36 hours or so to let Sunday night’s finale sink in, we’ve dug up the best critical writing on the episode, tempering the surge of critical responses to highlight the most thought-provoking pieces. … Read More

Television

‘Girls’ Season 2 Finale Recap: How Real Was ‘Girls’ This Week?

By Judy Berman on

Accused by some of whitewashing Brooklyn and beloved by others for depicting the harsh truth of post-college New York life for over-educated women in their 20s, Girls may well be TV’s most talked-about comedy. Considering that most of those conversations hinge on how realistic the show is or isn’t, this season we’re recapping Girls by asking three writers who should know — our interns, Chloe Pantazi, Alison Herman, and Julia Pugachevsky — how real each episode felt. Read their responses to last night’s season finale, characterized by a few unexpected romantic reunions and one entirely unsurprising split, and let us know what you think in the comments. … Read More

New York

30 Seconds With… Zosia Mamet

By Leah Taylor on

In this new weekly feature, WCBS culture critic Jim Taylor shares 30 seconds with the theatre stars and upstarts of NYC. From Broadway to Off-off, Jim tracks down the talent and gets them to spill just enough for our collectively shortened attention spans.

Really Really is easily the most significant new play of the year if you want to know what the Millennials are all about. It’s written by a playwright in his 20s (Paul Downs Colaizzo, a “scribe on the rise” according to Flavorpill’s own Mindy Bond) and features someone who should know all about the generation: Zosia Mamet.  … Read More

Television

‘Girls’ Season 2, Episode 9 Recap: How Real Was ‘Girls’ This Week?

By Flavorwire Staff on

Accused by some of whitewashing Brooklyn and beloved by others for depicting the harsh truth of post-college New York life for over-educated women in their 20s, Girls may well be TV’s most talked-about comedy. Considering that most of those conversations hinge on how realistic the show is or isn’t, this season we’re recapping Girls by asking three writers who should know — our interns, Chloe Pantazi, Alison Herman, and Julia Pugachevsky — how real each episode felt. Read their responses to last night’s episode, whose gross sex scenes were entirely eclipsed by gross personal hygiene scenes, and let us know what you think in the comments. … Read More

Television

‘Girls’ Season 2, Episode 8 Recap: How Real Was ‘Girls’ This Week?

By Flavorwire Staff on

Accused by some of whitewashing Brooklyn and beloved by others for depicting the harsh truth of post-college New York life for over-educated women in their 20s, Girls may well be TV’s most talked-about comedy. Considering that most of those conversations hinge on how realistic the show is or isn’t, this season we’re recapping Girls by asking three writers who should know — our interns, Chloe Pantazi, Alison Herman, and Julia Pugachevsky — how real each episode felt. Read their responses to last night’s episode, in which Hannah suddenly had OCD and Charlie was suddenly a tech mogul, and let us know what you think in the comments. … Read More