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‘Girls’ Season 3 Episode 3 Recap: “She Said OK”

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Just when Girls has you convinced it’s gone full sitcom, it gives you the nightmare image of a pantsless Gabby Hoffmann shattering a glass with her bare hand. Hoffmann’s great at playing unhinged, but where her character in Crystal Fairy and the Magic Cactus was ultimately benign, Adam’s sister Caroline is a whole new order of instability. She’s the kind of whirlwind that shows up out of nowhere just to suck all the oxygen out of the room, leaving broken dishware and possibly damaged romantic relationships in her wake. And even though the show wrings some comedic value out of her craziness, no one’s laughing by the end of “She Said OK.” Least of all Adam.

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The Conversation I Wish We Were Having About Lena Dunham, ‘Vogue,’ and Jezebel

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The whole conflagration between Lena Dunham, Vogue, and Jezebel over the ethics of photoshopping makes me very tired. It makes me very tired because I hate talking about fashion.

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‘Girls’ Season 3 Premiere Recap: “Females Only/Truth Or Dare”

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Welcome back to Girls, where you get an edible coffee mug from your editor if you’re lucky and chuck dirty dishes into the trash can of your rehab’s kitchen facility if you’re not. Or at least that’s what the opening scenes of the season premiere tell us as they reintroduce us to the women we love to rag on for their terrible life choices even as said life choices make us feel better about our own. We’re in for a whole new season’s worth of idiosyncratic dialogue and chronic underemployment, so let’s dive right into it, shall we? … Read More

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Questioning Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ Nudity Is Stupid, But Judd Apatow’s Response Wasn’t So Smart, Either

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Did your parents ever let you open one present on Christmas Eve because you couldn’t WAIT for Christmas morning? That’s how I feel today, because even though Girls doesn’t premiere until Sunday, we’re already fighting about it! Welcome to Think-Piece Season, everyone. We begin this year with more discussion of Lena Dunham’s nude body, thanks to Tim Molloy of The Wrap, who got into a fight last night with Judd Apatow after asking Lena Dunham, “Hey, why are you naked all the time?” … Read More

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‘Girls’ Whiplash Report: Why, Despite Everything, Lena Dunham’s Nudity Is Radical

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We’re going to have another post on what exactly was wrong with a reporter from the entertainment gossip outlet The Wrap asking Lena Dunham why she’s naked all the time on Girls. In my humble opinion, it was a disgusting, risible question, and I say this as someone who just yesterday expressed a truckload of reservations about the show’s upcoming season. It does, however, give me occasion to make an elementary point that I thought was clear to everyone, but my bad, apparently it isn’t. So unclear is it that I’m giving it its own paragraph, italics, everything I’ve got:

Lena Dunham’s nakedness on Girls is revolutionary and needs to be applauded, without reservation. … Read More

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‘Girls’ Is More Implausible Than Ever in Season 3 — So Why Are We Still Pretending It’s Realistic?

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As I have said many a time on this here internet, Girls is a bit overrated. It’s not the normal kind of overrated, in which everyone simply insists that something is excellent when it’s not. It is, instead, the kind of overrated that happens when everyone senses that an item in the culture constitutes a watershed moment, and the herd runs after it, and then finds they have to justify their wind-sprinting. … Read More

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Flavorwire’s Guide to 2014 Midseason TV

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Community returned last night after a long hiatus, and with a new helping of original creator Dan Harmon. It was the inaugural punch of a really strong midseason slate of new and returning shows. At this point we’re starting to prefer the January-March run of new stuff to the fall, actually. Here’s all the most interesting shows that will either premiere or start new seasons in the next three months. … Read More

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All the Things We Learned From the ‘Girls’ Season 3 Trailer

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Surprise! HBO released the trailer for Girls a few days earlier than expected, after Lena Dunham already teased it on Instagram. The video follows the familiar hallmarks of Girls: bold interstitials, muted colors, snappy editing, poppy music, and eventually uplifting vibes. There’s a lot of information to cull from this trailer (and obsessively, irrationally read into), so let’s get started! … Read More

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