Wednesday, August 28, 2013

how I felt

I recently downloaded Season 2 of Girls. This has been a long time coming. When I moved home before Paris and watched the first season marathon-style on my parents' television, I fell in love with the  "groundbreaking" show. So much so, that in my Global Audiences class, I focused on it as the topic of my final paper. As I concluded: "If Sex and the City 'enables the complicit critique that is considered to be characteristic of postmodernism (Feuer 1995; Klein 2000; Lash 1990),' (Arthurs 92), Girls brazenly displays it; thus creating a space of discussion where men and women of all ages have found a place to critique society and their own lives."
In the clip above (Episode 5, Season 2), my couple-of-weeks-ago feelings were too similar to Hannah's. Of course, in my case, I was sitting at a Parisian brasserie with Lorelei and rosé instead of a lying in a handsome doctor's Brooklyn bed. Personal details to come.

8 comments:

  1. I have yet to watch this show, but I've heard so much about it! I will have to add it to my list of shows to watch.
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  2. I saw this episode! I've only seen two and I find the show strangely captivating... love that the actress challenges society's idea of what it means to be sex and attractive :) Can't wait to here your parallel... hope you found your happy! xxx

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    1. It's definitely captivating. Thanks for the hope :) xo

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  3. Holy shit I love this show, and I love your concluding remarks on it. It is 'uglier' than Sex & the City, and it delves into truths that Sex & the City shied away from, perhaps because of the time it was created and the market it was aimed at. I also found Sex & the City promoted materialism, which I think Girls doesn't do as much, or at least not in an in-your-face way. The whole what I actually want is the house/children/partner thing is a funny realisation in the clip you show, and one I can relate too. Except, I also think, do you want those things because of social conditioning? And then, even if it is social conditioning, should you aim for it anyway because going with the grain is going to make you happier? Anyway, went off on a long rant! Thanks for sharing this clip and reminding me about it!

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    1. Thank you :) I did also mention materialism in my paper. And yes, I'm sure social conditioning plays a role but I also think there's a certain level of contentment that comes with settling into that life. Hope so anyway ;)

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  4. I loved the first season and have really mixed feelings about the second. I've had a lot of discussions about this episode in particular. A lot of girls I know were uncomfortable with it and found it really unrealistic. I have mixed feelings and was really interested in the feelings in brought up in myself and how it's probably the first time any of us have ever seen a girl like Hannah in these kind of scenes on TV.

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    1. So many things on these episodes make people uncomfortable--I think that's the magic of it all. This one in particular does edge closer to unrealistic but through emotional realism I felt myself connecting so much to the storyline. I love how Hannah's character challenges us in that way.

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