I'm a bit torn about next week. I assume the complete lack of set-up means there will be no chain which is kind of disappointing (I'm curious to see if they come up with an equally compelling and visually arresting tactic for Tyrion to use). On the other hand, I'm very excited about Neil Marshall directing the episode…

I'm a bit torn about next week. I assume the complete lack of set-up means there will be no chain which is kind of disappointing (I'm curious to see if they come up with an equally compelling and visually arresting tactic for Tyrion to use). On the other hand, I'm very excited about Neil Marshall directing the episode…

I realized when I wrote about Bridesmaids that not everyone appreciated that film as much as I did, but I still feel like it gets right in a relatively short amount of time what Girls has failed to do in its entire run so far. It allows its characters to make some awful decisions and demonstrate some horrible…

I believe she's honest, which is a very important thing to be as an artist. She's fairly intelligent as well and is capable of creating at least somewhat interesting pieces. She strikes me as someone so focused on her own problems and concerns, however, that she hasn't really taken the time to understand other people.…

Exactly, it feels like most of the cursory characters are just treated like tools to help her get to those moments and the moments are never particularly great to me. It doesn't help that her performance as an actress is basically one note. I personally can’t help but find myself comparing this to Bridesmaids where…

I'm also giving it until the end of the season, but I'm not very hopeful.

Misogynist! No, not a problem at all. I get what you’re saying. To me, however, more than being about the behavior of women, I feel like it's the behavior of roughly 90% of Dunham's generation. Also, somewhere around that same percentage of the generations surrounding hers. Okay, really, it's a whole lot of people in…

I feel like Dunham writes two types of characters. She has a pretty good grasp of the self-absorbed clueless 20-somethings that comprise most of the cast and try as I might, I just can't seem to care about any of them. Sure, I've been in uncomfortable situations and felt lost, but I can’t relate one bit to the way…

When someone disagrees with my opinion, I just want them to have something to back that opinion up with. If they don't give me anything, I'm forced to guess what they mean. If people keep on stating that his visuals aren't cinematic enough without explaining what they mean or giving an example of what they consider to…

Oh, I wouldn't say that his distinct style is visual in nature. It's definitely his writing that is his claim to fame and the easiest way to recognize his work. He's not like Wes Anderson where you know right away who directed the movie simply based on the visuals, but he is consistant in how he likes to shoot…

Well, it's hard to argue with such a well-thought argument. You forgot to to call me gay too.

It may just be that I'm an unabashed fan, but I typically find those types of critiques quite flawed in fact. Critics will commonly complain about parts of his work that are not as mind-blowingly awesome as the other parts (like "How come the less interesting character of Hawkeye isn't made as interesting as the other…

Maybe it's just that I don't see the humor inherent in annoying accents and petty, passive-aggressive gay people, but I really wish this show was just about the Dunphies. It would be exponentially better.

Thanks for examining one of the best half hours of television, ever. I really wish season 2 had been released on DVD. My season 1 set is lonely.

I'm not going to pretend that the show never does anything that really stretches reality, but these reviews seem to treat almost everything in the show like that way and you always seems to assume that it's all done in an effort to make us laugh at the outrageousness of it all. Funny things happen from time to time,…