I don't like this show, and Dunham's public persona strikes me as someone who's not very self-aware (and possibly has some fucked-up ideas of acceptable behavior), but Gawker pretty much exists to generate clicks by shitting on and trying to drag down anyone attempting anything creative.

Most of those shows are recognized as terrible, and those tropes recognized as trite, stale, and insulting. Critics call this show brilliant and brave.

But what if it's a joke that's not funny?

It's a show I wanted to like and understand, but I never did, and I could never get fans to tell me why they really liked the show, just why my reasons for not liking it were wrong. Eventually, I gave up and reconciled myself to the fact that some things I was just never meant to know.

And I'd rather get kicked in the shin than in the crotch.

Way to make a mashup movie trailer that's plausible, but not actually funny, Internet!

It's tough to walk that line. I want a game that leaves some room for my imagination, without the hand-holding, but is also easy enough to understand that I feel like I can pick it up and get into it without needing a huge tutorial and screwing myself over if I don't have a guidebook from minute one. Long enough to be…

Would make sense— Party Down was one of the tightest, funniest comedies of the past 10 years or so.

The Cocksucker Monologues

Richard III: His hump really affects the perkiness of his breasts. Two stars.

As tragic as Reverend Smith is, the circumcision homily to the mules always makes me laugh.

I read somewhere an HBO exec expected it to air this summer.

Huh, John Enbom of Party Down? I had no idea.

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All I'm saying is that the gradual change in how he's written has made him less enjoyable; it's particularly obnoxious because it feels like the writers are trying to push Ron as the world's coolest guy (which Nick Offerman might well be, but Ron Swanson definitely isn't).

Your argument is "You can't complain that a character has gradually become a caricature, if you don't also have a problem if the factual details of setting in a show set in a fictional city don't line up?"

This is about the guy who moves to L.A. and becomes the crazy "Put me in your movie!" guy, isn't it?

K nothing sexist about "shrieking bitch," got it

Well, my argument isn't even that he's "always" right, it's that the direction has shifted so increasingly to him being right all the time that he's no longer a three-dimensional character but some kind of libertarian superman (which is a phrase that keeps getting repeated because it's so accurate).