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 […]
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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 […]
Lena Dunham’s Gentrification of the Mind
If gentrification is nothing more than white supremacy for liberals, then Lena Dunham’s HBO series, GIRLS, may be the phenomenon’s urtext. Set primarily in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the show follows four twenty-something female protagonists–Hannah, Jessa, Marnie, and Shoshanna–as they […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Leftovers Pilot
In The Leftovers, HBO’s new prestige drama, two percent of the world’s population spontaneously disappears into thin air. The pope vanishes. Gary Busey dematerializes. Car seats are left barren all over the world. No explanation is […]
On Hate: Recapping The Newsroom Season 2 Episode 1
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. Either that […]
BPoFD Podcast Episode 7: Guys on Guys on Girls with David Salinas
In Episode #7 of the BPoFD Podcast, Guys on Guys on Girls, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with David Salinas to discuss Slate’s internet infamous column, Guys on Girls. Highlights include ruminations on racism on Girls, rape-ism on Girls, […]
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