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shadowkatJust watched the new HBO comedy Girls - has anyone else seen this? It's hilarious.
Reminds me a little of films like The Squid and the Whale, Rushmore, and Freaks and Geeks.
Possibly the best written ensemble situation comedy that I've seen in ages. A 20 something female version of Louis. With similar situational humor.
It focuses on Hannah, portrayed by Lens Denham, who did the critically acclaimed independent flick Tiny Furniture. And is executive produced by Judd Apatow (who I normally I am not a fan of, but I will give him credit for consistently fighting for films that do diversified casting as opposed to pretty casting.) Hannah looks like most women, she's not model pretty like the women on The New Girl, Don't Trust the B in Apt 23, or most shows. Nor are the guys or other actors model pretty.
The dialogue is crisp and informative. Great one liners. "I think I may be the voice of my generation," says desperate Hannah to her parents, in an attempt to sell them on her book, "or at least a voice of a generation...could be any generation."
Hannah's is 24, she graduated with a BA in English, had an unpaid internship at a publishing company until her parents cut her off financially, because as her mother states, "I want a house by a lake, I work too frigging hard not to be able to retire to a house by a lake - any lake!" So she's forced to ask her boss for a job, he fires her from her internship instead. And she's left to her own devices.
On her body are tattoos of children's book illustrations. Her boyfriend asks why she got them.
Hannah: "I got grossly fat in high school and lost control of my body. The tattoos were a way to re-establish control."
The other cast members - are her best buds, or girlfriends. It reminds me a lot of Sex in the City, except with a female writer, with a razor sharp wit.
Reminds me a little of films like The Squid and the Whale, Rushmore, and Freaks and Geeks.
Possibly the best written ensemble situation comedy that I've seen in ages. A 20 something female version of Louis. With similar situational humor.
It focuses on Hannah, portrayed by Lens Denham, who did the critically acclaimed independent flick Tiny Furniture. And is executive produced by Judd Apatow (who I normally I am not a fan of, but I will give him credit for consistently fighting for films that do diversified casting as opposed to pretty casting.) Hannah looks like most women, she's not model pretty like the women on The New Girl, Don't Trust the B in Apt 23, or most shows. Nor are the guys or other actors model pretty.
The dialogue is crisp and informative. Great one liners. "I think I may be the voice of my generation," says desperate Hannah to her parents, in an attempt to sell them on her book, "or at least a voice of a generation...could be any generation."
Hannah's is 24, she graduated with a BA in English, had an unpaid internship at a publishing company until her parents cut her off financially, because as her mother states, "I want a house by a lake, I work too frigging hard not to be able to retire to a house by a lake - any lake!" So she's forced to ask her boss for a job, he fires her from her internship instead. And she's left to her own devices.
On her body are tattoos of children's book illustrations. Her boyfriend asks why she got them.
Hannah: "I got grossly fat in high school and lost control of my body. The tattoos were a way to re-establish control."
The other cast members - are her best buds, or girlfriends. It reminds me a lot of Sex in the City, except with a female writer, with a razor sharp wit.