For the past seven years, the residents of New Jersey, our union’s greatest and most educated state, have been made a national laughingstock by their Republican governor, Chris Christie. Since assuming the office in 2010, […]
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The BPoFD Summer Movie Preview: 2017 Edition
In summer the movie house is everything but quiet, its worlds all chaos, raging. Is the summer night like a perfection of thought? Not for the moviegoer, who shuffles from outside heat to cool theater […]
BPOFD PODCAST EPISODE #23: GTFO GIRLS with Darri Farr
In Episode #23 of the BPoFD podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with Darri Farr, author of “Lena Dunham & the Magical Abortion,” to discuss the legacy of HBO’s GIRLS. Highlights include a deconstruction of GIRLS‘s faux-feminism, hypothetical musings about […]
What’s Worse Than GIRLS?
by David Salinas Full disclosure: I haven’t watched GIRLS since the third season. I think. And I’m not sure it matters. The plot is so insignificant—characters shuffling between love, languor, and leases—that whole seasons meld into […]
Lena Dunham & the Magical Abortion
By Darri Farr From the very first episode, GIRLS promised us an abortion. An early evasion of the topic takes place in “Vagina Panic,” when Jessa skips her own abortion to hook up with a stranger […]
DAS GIRLS
by Alex Weisler While Lena Dunham has always insisted that she is not Hannah Horvath, her fictional alter ego on GIRLS, she has never publicly distanced herself from Aura, the protagonist of her Criterion-approved debut film […]
The Unbearable Whiteness of GIRLS
By Bastian B. Bux Since the moment it premiered, Lena Dunham’s GIRLS has been haunted by thoughtful and exacting criticism surrounding the surreal whiteness of its world, right up until last week’s underwhelming finale. As early as 2012, Dunham […]
