What a relief it is to see Lena Dunham having the time of her life at the TIME gala! This lady gets so much grief for her work, her tweets, her body and, as a 26 year old show runner, she must be under the kind of pressure I hope I never come to understand. But you wouldn’t know any of that as she kisses Claire Danes on the red carpet, parties with Padma, Amy, and Mia and genuinely looks like she’s just up for a good f*cking time. Full Story

Girls Season 2 Episode 10 recap Years ago, still in school and just out of it, I fell in love for the first time. We spent almost every waking hour together, making the fact that he did not love me even more poignant - or more pointless, depending on your perspective. We were both romantics, though, and we both professed to really want to meet someone, and spent a lot of time talking about "someone you’d get up out of bed for, if they called at 3 AM". Full Story

Girls Season 2 Episode 9 recap I should point out, before I get distracted with all the other things in this episode, that I am really enjoying some of the songs this season. Twitter linked to an interview with Michael Penn about some of the work he’s done for the show, and I have to say that from “One Man’s Trash” up to now, it’s been a steady stream of musical enjoyment. Full Story

Girls Season 2 Episode 8 recap I am a terrible person. I know this, because when Hannah, early in the episode, started exhibiting OCD symptoms, I thought “Oh, right, she’s pretending to have OCD for an essay in her book”. It made perfect sense to me. It seemed like exactly the type of wistful, if-only-I-had-this-writerly-thing sort of hope that book-character Hannah would want to have, and then would try to acquire. Full Story

Girls Season 2 Episode 7 I am so tired of the commentary on vaginas these days. I have had enough.  Please do not talk about how women are being shamed into hating their labia, or criticizing or worshipping the giant bush, or talking about ambassadors of vagina, or something. I am not trying to sound like Chuck Lorre but is this really the only thing we can talk about that makes us seem daring and with it and rebellious? Really?   The only thing? I guess the next gasp will be about anal fissures, or something, but it just seems so…second-year university. Full Story

Girls Season 2 Episode 6 recap You know, it occurs to me that Hannah is kind of a jerk.   This isn’t, or shouldn’t be, news. But it really struck me as an immutable fact when she was so flippant to Ray about getting his book back from Adam, no matter how implausible and flimsy the excuse about the book (and really, show, make it something even a little more plausible – Clockwork Orange? - and we could feel sad that Ray is 33 going on 20). Full Story

Girls Season 2 Episode 5 recap I have never gambled. I’ve never been to a casino – I didn’t even try to learn at a charity casino thing I was at a couple of weeks ago. I have literally never purchased a lottery ticket, nor even a scratch card. But I would bet literally thousands of dollars that the premise for this episode of Girls came up because someone in the writer’s room couldn’t stop watching a repeat of Pretty Woman or quoting it in the room or was late for an appointment because it was running on TBS Superstation. Full Story

Girls Season 2 Episode 4 recap I would’ve thought the nickname for Shoshanna would be more “Shawsh”.   What do I know? Fine. Show-sh. I want to point out what should be obvious. I think Jessa is a horrible human being.   It’s one thing to be honest about yourself, but that’s not what was going on – not even a little. Full Story

Girls Season 2 Episode 3 recap What does it say about me that this was the Girls episode I enjoyed the most? I originally wrote “annoyed me the least”, but first of all, that’s kind of a dick thing to say, and second of all, it’s not necessarily true. Which is fine. This is the first episode in a long while where the annoying choices the characters made – and they did make them – seemed absolutely in line with the characters they’ve shown us and who they’ve been trying to be instead of just random hilarity so that we’d think the show was cool and trendy. Full Story

Girls Season 2 Episode 2 recap It is understating the case by a lot to say I’ve never been a gusher about Girls, but I find it’s easiest for me to stomach if I think of it from a nostalgia point of view.   Honestly. I’ve decided it’s The Wonder Years without the narration. Full Story

Girls Season 2 Episode 1 Welcome back, y’all. Season 2 of this little show nobody’s heard about that hasn’t been talked about at all. But I think it’s important, as much as possible, to discuss the show separately from the entire cottage industry of media that has sprung up around it. Full Story

Oh my Lord with the Dunham and the backlash and the whiplash. Why is it that everyone else can have opinions about everything else but the Lena Dunham situation makes it impossible to have a dissenting opinion? After watching last night I have to suspect people feel protective of her. She’s so gosh-golly and I forget that part of it. Full Story

I liked Lena Dunham’s new haircut a lot more than I thought I did, didn’t you? I did think, though, that it looked a lot better in the nominee packs than it did on the carpet. The dress, on the other hand, not so much. The best word I can think of to describe it is “sedate”, which just doesn’t seem to fit for the woman who opened the show naked with a birthday cake. Full Story

The day I learned how to look at my internet history is one of the saddest of my life.  Not because of what I looked at, per se, (although some days...) but because there's that tab for “Today”.  You can see all the stuff you looked at JUST TODAY, and how this links to that, and which thread you followed - you can actually see the time being wasted. Full Story