Girls: Queen for Two Days
March 21, 2016 11:39 AM - Season 5, Episode 5 - Subscribe
Hannah and her mom embark on a female-empowerment retreat, where Loreen hopes for clarity on her situation with Tad, and Hannah relishes some time away from Fran. In Tokyo, Shoshanna enjoys her budding romance with Yoshi, and gets a surprise visitor from the U.S. Jessa meets up with her
sister Minerva and asks for a favor.
I have no issues with Lena Dunham's body or the nudity on the show, but sometimes they seem to make her look deliberately terrible, like this entire episode with the monokini and the granny panties in the lesbian sauna scene. I mean whatever, she's still beautiful and amazing, but it's kind of
Funny to me- she looks a million times more conventionally attractive anywhere but her own show.
posted by zutalors! at 8:57 PM on March 21, 2016
Funny to me- she looks a million times more conventionally attractive anywhere but her own show.
posted by zutalors! at 8:57 PM on March 21, 2016
I'm loving this season. Zosie Mamet's portrayal of Shoshanna was incredible in this episode. Just when you think she has her shit together ...
The Adam/Jessa romance is so good too, they have a natural chemistry. Adam seems to fall in love with every woman he sleeps with, though, and once Hannah finds out it won't be pretty.
And the Kathies (and Cathy)! "A good book and a bottle of wine ... the perfect morning".
This was a great episode. They're definitely pulling out all the stops this final season.
posted by essexjan at 10:29 AM on March 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
The Adam/Jessa romance is so good too, they have a natural chemistry. Adam seems to fall in love with every woman he sleeps with, though, and once Hannah finds out it won't be pretty.
And the Kathies (and Cathy)! "A good book and a bottle of wine ... the perfect morning".
This was a great episode. They're definitely pulling out all the stops this final season.
posted by essexjan at 10:29 AM on March 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
I liked this episode a lot, it had all the characters I care about (Adam, Jessa, Hannah, Hannah's mom, Shosh) and none of the characters I don't care about. I'm really liking this season so far even though I don't really understand how Hannah became a teacher so fast. Like she just kind of showed up at a school one day wearing a minidress and that was that. I get that it's fiction and all but I feel like they pushed that too fast just so they could hurry up and get to the part where she's being super inappropes with students.
posted by bleep at 6:50 PM on March 22, 2016
posted by bleep at 6:50 PM on March 22, 2016
The opening scene, credits, and cat cafe scene all use the amazing Katachi by Shugo Tokumaru for background music. That same song is my alarm in the mornings, so when it started playing quietly I thought my phone was messing up.
(Also, definitely watch the music video if you haven't seen it before. It's icredible.)
posted by Itaxpica at 7:44 PM on March 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
(Also, definitely watch the music video if you haven't seen it before. It's icredible.)
posted by Itaxpica at 7:44 PM on March 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
Like she just kind of showed up at a school one day wearing a minidress and that was that.
She's a substitute teacher at a private school. I don't remember why she's subbing long-term, and I don't know why she's developing her own curriculum without oversight. But she probably met the qualifications for a substitute teacher at a private school.
posted by aabbbiee at 10:49 AM on March 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
She's a substitute teacher at a private school. I don't remember why she's subbing long-term, and I don't know why she's developing her own curriculum without oversight. But she probably met the qualifications for a substitute teacher at a private school.
posted by aabbbiee at 10:49 AM on March 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
Well I mean that's exactly what I don't understand. I guess it's a long term subbing job? They're taking a narrative shortcut it seems like.
posted by bleep at 1:41 PM on March 23, 2016
posted by bleep at 1:41 PM on March 23, 2016
The background story that I've made up is that they hired her after the sub job, and that they have a lower bar for teachers because it's a private school. I love 90% of the show and the characters so much, but that last 10% of obnoxiousness/disbelief/confusion is pretty hard to get over.
posted by armacy at 3:43 PM on March 23, 2016
posted by armacy at 3:43 PM on March 23, 2016
Soshanna made my heart break. She's the best.
I mean whatever, she's still beautiful and amazing, but it's kind of Funny to me- she looks a million times more conventionally attractive anywhere but her own show.
Yeah, Lena Dunham is a much more stylish person than Hannah Horvath is.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 1:03 AM on March 25, 2016
I mean whatever, she's still beautiful and amazing, but it's kind of Funny to me- she looks a million times more conventionally attractive anywhere but her own show.
Yeah, Lena Dunham is a much more stylish person than Hannah Horvath is.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 1:03 AM on March 25, 2016
Yeah, I just mean that I feel like she's trolling critics with some shots and outfits that would make Taylor Swift look schlumpy. It works as physical comedy as well.
posted by zutalors! at 9:26 AM on March 25, 2016
posted by zutalors! at 9:26 AM on March 25, 2016
I'm pretty sure Lena is also trolling IRL with her red carpet looks.
posted by bleep at 9:44 AM on March 25, 2016
posted by bleep at 9:44 AM on March 25, 2016
On the Hanah Horvath style front:
In the past, I would purposely tailor her clothes to be ill-fitting. I would move waistlines so that everything sat on the wrong place on Lena’s body. I adjusted hemlines to look intentionally awkward. I’m not doing that this season.
From season 4 interview with Girls costume designer, Jen Rogian. Not clear if that stance extended to season 5.
posted by freya_lamb at 1:55 PM on March 29, 2016 [1 favorite]
In the past, I would purposely tailor her clothes to be ill-fitting. I would move waistlines so that everything sat on the wrong place on Lena’s body. I adjusted hemlines to look intentionally awkward. I’m not doing that this season.
From season 4 interview with Girls costume designer, Jen Rogian. Not clear if that stance extended to season 5.
posted by freya_lamb at 1:55 PM on March 29, 2016 [1 favorite]
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Also Hannah's monokini. I love Hannah's terrible fashion choices, but first watching her wander through the woods in what looks like a bikini (a callback to that Hamptons episode where bikini-clad Hannah rode a bicycle into town to go to the store) and then she turns around and it's a hideous monokini... just absolutely wonderful. And then, what was it? "a group of divorced Kathies"? Awesome.
posted by aabbbiee at 2:20 PM on March 21, 2016 [2 favorites]