Comments on: The female protagonist as writer: HBO’s Girls

By: 51. READ. LOOK. THINK. | JESSICA STANLEY.

51. READ. LOOK. THINK. | JESSICA STANLEY. — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:18:08 +0000

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By: moonkid

moonkid — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:20:33 +0000

Absolutely spot on, Bethanie. It’s a show about first-world problems, the primary problem being how to be interesting when your life is pretty ordinary. And it manages to make that stuff really interesting and entertaining, which is both impressive and rather meta.

By: Bethanie Blanchard

Bethanie Blanchard — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:24:56 +0000

Ha yes there’s so many winks to the audience in that speech, such as the way she collapses on the floor and mumbles ‘I might die, like Flaubert in a garret. Don’t look at me’

By: Mel Campbell

Mel Campbell — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:13:29 +0000

The fact she was high on opium is funny too, since the Romantics saw it as a ‘creative’ drug and yet she came out with that lame speech, rather than ‘Kubla Khan’, for instance.