Here's the thing about HBOs once huge hit 'Girls'; The central character is an insufferable person the first three seasons. It is actually painful to watch this person behave as she does. Hanna (Lena Dunham) is not a likable person. And the constant display / confrontation of highlighting her own body so vagrantly and to an unnecessary degree. Shoving her point in our face like, almost violently. It's in your face agenda anunviodable in its also rubber-necking story telling and cast.
Hanna is Lena - it's not as fiction as it wants to appear. That's both unique intriguing but also uncomfortably narcissistic. This is tragically - what keeps you watching.
The strange thing is, Lena can write OTHER CHARACTERS, and OTHER PLOT NARRATIVES FOR THEM, that hold this thing together. Jemima Kirke, Adam Driver, Zosia Mamut, Alex Karpovsky - honestly they're all written beautifully (and bizarrely) intriguing. Each one of them couldn't have been played better.
So you have these good people inside of stories, with Hannah (Dunham) shoving herself in your face. If you can bare that, which is an honest feat, then you might find some dark yet laughable moments on your ass watching this show.
Love it or or hate it I'll forever remain undecided - but I did watch it. There strain in trying to reframe Hannah in seasons four+ was palpable. It got a little painful there too but in a slightly different way. Final review is truly + almost tragically undecided. Like; what did I just subject myself to? Lena is practically a sex offender, I'm sorry. It's like a modern age Only Fans. Why???
Just, why?
We get it, does it have to be so purposefully BLATANT? It's mildly assaulting. The show over all is graphic - be she - in every way - is above and beyond over the top.
Then she feigns intellectual superiority in all her *wOkEness" - her "progressive and radical demonstration of all bodies are beautiful" on LD crack. It is over the top and just sooo dreadfully unavoidable, though to a degree you wish it would just simmer. In one scene, Hannah and her mother are on "vacation" at some spa weekend and Jesus Christ let's see we watch her having extremely awkward completely implausible sauna sex with some rando mystical trainer girl who "beautifully breaks the rules" then turns out to be blatantly broken and of course Hannah just happened to bury her face into her vagina in the meantime. Thrusting her naked body onto screen, while overtly giving head to such a degree that was in fact just display. Then a side shot of her and her mom crawling into bed for the evening. Instead it's this capture of Hannah taking off her her underwear, flashing her vagina to the screen before getting under the covers. Like: playing off a Sharon Stone moment with her boss? Again, opening her legs while HBO zooms in.
Why?
It's over the top.
We do see other characters in awkward life positions but they're often relatable to a degree. There is something that far off of that when it comes to how Lena writes herself into Hannah. To me, it seems slightly psychotic.
Hence, Car Crash.
Idk.
Lena Dunham is just so tragically narcissistic. How she managed to keep such amazing people around her is actually mind blowing to me.
Hanna is Lena - it's not as fiction as it wants to appear. That's both unique intriguing but also uncomfortably narcissistic. This is tragically - what keeps you watching.
The strange thing is, Lena can write OTHER CHARACTERS, and OTHER PLOT NARRATIVES FOR THEM, that hold this thing together. Jemima Kirke, Adam Driver, Zosia Mamut, Alex Karpovsky - honestly they're all written beautifully (and bizarrely) intriguing. Each one of them couldn't have been played better.
So you have these good people inside of stories, with Hannah (Dunham) shoving herself in your face. If you can bare that, which is an honest feat, then you might find some dark yet laughable moments on your ass watching this show.
Love it or or hate it I'll forever remain undecided - but I did watch it. There strain in trying to reframe Hannah in seasons four+ was palpable. It got a little painful there too but in a slightly different way. Final review is truly + almost tragically undecided. Like; what did I just subject myself to? Lena is practically a sex offender, I'm sorry. It's like a modern age Only Fans. Why???
Just, why?
We get it, does it have to be so purposefully BLATANT? It's mildly assaulting. The show over all is graphic - be she - in every way - is above and beyond over the top.
Then she feigns intellectual superiority in all her *wOkEness" - her "progressive and radical demonstration of all bodies are beautiful" on LD crack. It is over the top and just sooo dreadfully unavoidable, though to a degree you wish it would just simmer. In one scene, Hannah and her mother are on "vacation" at some spa weekend and Jesus Christ let's see we watch her having extremely awkward completely implausible sauna sex with some rando mystical trainer girl who "beautifully breaks the rules" then turns out to be blatantly broken and of course Hannah just happened to bury her face into her vagina in the meantime. Thrusting her naked body onto screen, while overtly giving head to such a degree that was in fact just display. Then a side shot of her and her mom crawling into bed for the evening. Instead it's this capture of Hannah taking off her her underwear, flashing her vagina to the screen before getting under the covers. Like: playing off a Sharon Stone moment with her boss? Again, opening her legs while HBO zooms in.
Why?
It's over the top.
We do see other characters in awkward life positions but they're often relatable to a degree. There is something that far off of that when it comes to how Lena writes herself into Hannah. To me, it seems slightly psychotic.
Hence, Car Crash.
Idk.
Lena Dunham is just so tragically narcissistic. How she managed to keep such amazing people around her is actually mind blowing to me.