Girls Episode 6

As usual, Peter has written an excellent synopsis of the episode.

This episode takes place in Michigan where Hannah is visiting her parents, who hare having a 30th wedding anniversary. This means we don’t get to see any of the Brooklyn gang. Except for Adam, but more on that later.

Hannah finds hanging out with her parents extremely boring. Her mother gets annoyed at her for texting during the DVD they are watching in their living room. Then Hannah goes to the kitchen and stuffs her face with food. As if she’s not fat enough already.

The next morning, her mom sends her off to buy menopause medicine, but first she stops at a coffee place where the girl behind the counter is Heather, a smoking-hot ditzy airhead blonde who apparently went to high school with Hannah. The gorgeous blonde former classmate tells Hannah about this girl Carrie who disappeared while on a trip.

Then Hannah goes to the pharmacy, where the pharmacist is also a former classmate of Hannah’s. He says he owns the place with his father, and then he flirts with her by giving her free lubricant for her mom’s menopause, and they arrange a date, which means that Hannah has to skip going out to dinner with her parents for their wedding anniversary.

On her date with the pharmacist, they go to the benefit for Carrie in which they watch a poorly choreographed dance routine starring the beautiful Heather. I was too busy observing how beautiful she was to notice the bad dancing, but Hannah noticed it for me.

Then Hannah and the pharmacist have awkward vanilla sex at his place. He’s not interested in having Hannah satisfy any weird sexual fetishes.

Then Hannah returns home, and her father is flat out on the floor of the bathroom where he slipped having sex with Hannah's mother. Luckily, the father is OK. Then we see his naked penis. Yuck! I so regret stating last week that the show needs a naked penis. That was disgusting. Luckily, the dad was OK.

Then Adam returns Hannah’s phone call, and they have the first real conversation like a boyfriend would have with a girlfriend since they’ve been seeing each other.

The end.

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The best part of the phone conversation is Hannah’s description of the pharmacist’s apartment:

I was just so amazed by his apartment, it’s huge, it’s like twice the size of yours and he paid like nothing for it, and it just made me think, like why doesn’t everyone struggling in New York move here and start the revolution? It’s like we’re all slaves to this place that doesn’t even really want us.

That’s a good question, why doesn’t everyone just move to a white place with a low cost of living, especially if they don’t even have real job that requires them to live in New York?

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And here is Otis’ lost review:

Boring ep because it all took place in Michigan with Hannah's parents. Hannah hooked up with some really boring beta guy. They had sex but it seemed kindof bleh. During, Hannah seemed frustrated that this boring nice guy wouldn't tell her what to do and it may be that one reason she puts up with Adam's bizarre fantasies is because going along with it is so easy for her.

Adam calls Hannah up and has a conversation with Hannah where you really see the contrast between him and the "nice guy", who presumbly functioned as some sort of stand in for every bland nice guy in America. Yeah, Adam is gross and weird and a jerk and not very good looking but at least he is somewhat interesting and he is a good fit for Hannah's offbeat personality. He is still using PUA tactics: calling her "kid", as a pet name to establish dominance or something I guess.

Worst episode of the series so far.

Up next week: Charlie is with a girl that is even hotter than Marnie, and Marnie isn't happy about it. Hannah runs into Adam at a party dancing with some other girl. Jessa appears to finally make a move on unemployed dad. Shoshana smokes crack.

Comments

[Peter]

"Luckily, the father is OK. Then we see his naked penis. Yuck! I so regret stating last week that the show needs a naked penis."

The episode made up for that, however, by giving us a nice look at Hannah's mom's luscious hooters.

One thing I didn't like about the episode is the way it portrayed Mom and Dad as a couple of totally unsophisticated rubes. They're both college professors at Michigan State University, it's safe to say that in real life people with such jobs would be anything but unsophisticated.

[Peter]

"yhe girl behind the counter is Heather, a smoking-hot ditzy airhead blonde who apparently went to high school with Hannah"

I wouldn't go quite that far. Heather is a slim pale blonde who certainly is pretty, but not smoking hot by any means. You'll see plenty of girls looking a lot like her on any college campus. Marnie and Shoshanna are hotter.

[ice hole]

Doesn't sound like I'm missing much.

[DaveinHackensack]

Siggie is drawn to Heather's blonde Shiksappeal ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shiksappeal ) like you are drawn to Hannah's mom's boobs.

[DaveinHackensack]

You buried the lede in your review, eliding the part where Hannah tells Adam she just boned some other guy (which seems to pique his interest/attraction in Hannah, rather than piss him off).

Unlike Otis, I think this might have been the funniest episode yet. The scene where the pharmacist hands Hannah the lube was hilarious, as was the scene where she helps her mom pick Hannah's naked dad off the bathroom floor.

[Otis the Sweaty]

Shoshana is exactly my type: cute, not hot. I love "cute" girls. That's why I like Indian and Pakistani girls, they are usually cute but not too hot.

The hottest really probably is Jessa. I don't like her, she's a bitch but she is hot. And she gets hotter the more you see her. Marnie is weird cause she is one of those rare girls that actually gets less hot after you've seen her a few times. She also is a bit two faced: sometimes she is smoking and sometimes she is just pretty.

If I could bang one I'd probably bang Marnie.

I agree with Peter that blondie was nothing special. Typical all American pretty blonde girl.

[Anonymous]

That’s a good question, why doesn’t everyone just move to a white place with a low cost of living, especially if they don’t even have real job that requires them to live in New York?

Hopefully this gets explored more. The theme of the ep seemed to be that Hannah would have a pretty good life back in that town (rich and cute if beta suitor, hot if ditzy friend, probably a pretty good job at the college) but prefers ny anyway

[Turambar]

If you are looking for "Half Sigma was Right" fodder, check out this statement from Rev. Wright. As you suspected the Obamas' Christianity is just for the electorate:

"“Church is not their thing. It was never their thing,” Wright says of Barack and Michelle Obama. “She was not the kind of black woman whose momma made her go to church, made her go to Sunday school…so the church was not an integral part of their lives before they got married — after they got married.”"

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/church-was-not-their-thing-new-audio-from-rev-wrights-shocking-interview-with-obama-book-author-ed-klein/

[Matt in RTP]

A revolution? Sounds great!

There are many struggling graphic design, communications, English, and theater majors, so I am sure we could produce some great agitprop at bargain prices.

Of course, we could also go retro; it's hard to top a classic like: Sous les pavés, la plage!

But railing against the stultifying conformity of comfortable "middle classedness" probably won't play well, with so many of my generation afraid of falling out of the middle class. Most would gladly shut their mouths and minds to take a pay check, if it was offered!

Maybe we should emphasize the immiserating effects of uncontrolled immigration, the relentless wage cuts for the working class, and the spiraling cost of reproduction for the middle class (safe real estate, good schools, etc)?

Multiculturalism is counter-revolutionary!

It is forbidden to forbid discussion of HBD!

No war but status war!

[Peter]

"Marnie is weird cause she is one of those rare girls that actually gets less hot after you've seen her a few times. She also is a bit two faced: sometimes she is smoking and sometimes she is just pretty."

Marnie looked better when we first met her because we didn't know at that point what an Ice Princess she could be. Now that we know that her personality is so unpleasant, we don't see her in quite the same light and this leads to a perception of her being less hott.

With Shoshanna, there's the opposite effect.

[Scipio Africanus]

The unseen "Carrie" character is supposed to represent Carrie Bradshaw from Sex And The City (and also Natalie Holloway, who is/was the same age as Lena Dunham.)

And as for why everyone doesn't move to Outer Whitelandia and start the revolution, it's because the "cool" stuff (music, literature, film, hipsterism, etc.) tends to happen in only a few centralized locations: Brooklyn, LA, SF, Austin, London, Paris, Tokyo, etc. There aren't enough creative/cool kids throughout the world for those scenes to be so vibrant all over the place all at the same time.

[Otis the Sweaty]

I never mix personality with beauty. I am great at seperating the two.

When we first saw Marnie I think I overestimated her face but underestimated her body.

As for Marnie's personality, I think she is the prototype of the young American girl: pretty but not beautiful, boring, superficial and icy.

[Mercy Vetsel]

"why doesn’t everyone just move to a white place
with a low cost of living"

Actually, a surprising number of white people in the U.S. don't live in Manhattan. A lot of people need to live in the NY area for their work, but for the rest my theory is that it's the women. The UES has the highest female/male ratio in the country.

Immigrants move to NY because if you're English is poor you want to live around your Uzbekistani -speaking neighbors more than you want a big house.

Manhattan's like that annoying club where the drinks are $15 and it's so packed that you can barely move, but the young attractive women have decided that's where they want to be, so all of the schlubs follow.

-Mercy

[Nicolai Yezhov]

" Otis' "

I hope that's a typo or you're a prole.

But you're in good company. Most Americans are proles.

The MLA is a prole organization.

[Doug1]

Marie is lots hotter when she wears some makeup.

Jessa about always has at least some makeup on. In the first episode Marnie had makeup, and at the gallery.

[Turambar]

First off Lena Dunham is a real talent, both as a writer and the way she plays her scenes. Hopefully she isnt smothered in the cradle by the intense criticism she is receiving from the leftists. Lots of good quiet jokes in this one- she says her parents dont know her and stomps off. Her mother calls after her "there is chicken in the fridge". They resist the comedic urge to do a smash cut to her at the fridge eating leftovers but left it breathe a bit and, viola, there she is eating. I think that this is what the leftist critics dislike the most- you OWS types arent as revolutionary as you think you are, and you parents do in fact know the real you.

This is also an interesting episode because it shows Hannah cant go back. Actual sex with someone who is interested in her is no longer enough. Better to reign in hell than serve in Heaven- she coulnt work as as a florist in Michigan, she would require a professional job. However that kind of stupid job that she and her friends have is fine in NY.

I wonder how much of the existing story they are treating as non-canonical? The father no longer had the earring mentioned in the gay ex-bf ep. And the mother's motivation no longer seem to be "a fucking lake house". Unfortunately in the choppy piratey streaming version I watched I missed who Hannah was supposed to be taking after. The mother seemed to have some insight in to what was going on with her.

[b-nasty]

Hanna's self-realization of the foolish hopes & dreams of her friend is a great theme. There may be many jobs (BIGLAW, finance) that one must relocate to NYC to stand a shot, but a writer is not one. With the Internet, self-publishing, and Amazon/ebooks, you can kick off a writing career anywhere.

Much like a computer software startup, the key is to self-finance and do it cheaply. Spend a few years at your parents' (stuffing your fat face from the perma-filled fridge) and try it out. If you fail, and you probably will, it's time to give up the pipe dream.

[BlogRaju]

Talking about "Girls" again? You guys are so cute!

"why doesn’t everyone just move to a white place
with a low cost of living"
Because there is nothing to do in Montana.

[Doug1]

There's plenty of outdoorsie stuff to do in western Montana, where one of my brothers lives. Great skiing, mountain climbing, mountain biking, fly fishing, paragliding, horses if you're into them, etc.

There's not much city stuff to do in Montana.

[JP]

"there is nothing to do in Montana"

There is more to do in suburban white nowheresville than there has ever been before; thanks to the internet, cable TV/movies, and Amazon, you can get quality entertainment pretty much anywhere.