Red Mosquito

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Considering this episode aired on the eve of the 2 hour breastfeeding course I am attending with my wife, it hit a little close to home.

I can dig it. But while I found it to be a bad episode, I'm more disappointed that it was the finale. Would have made more sense to swap this and last week's episode, obviously with some minor narrative tweaks.

Mecca wrote:Maybe the episode was awful because it was about Hannah "growing up" and growing up fucking sucks

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Mecca wrote:Maybe the episode was awful because it was about Hannah "growing up" and growing up fucking sucks

But also it was so obvious. It's about as clever as an episode of Facts of Life: Selfish brat has a baby and learns that motherhood requires selflessness. Gimme a break. At least last week's episode had a closing narrative that made sense for the main characters (plus a couple weeks back, with Ray and Aidy Bryant; and Adam and Hanna realizing the fault of their fantasy). All things considered, last night's episode wasn't terrible in-and-of-itself...But it was super predictable, and I'm not sure what it added to the series that hadn't already been covered?

bodysnatcher wrote:I'm so glad this is over

given2trade wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:I'm so glad this is over

best post in the thread...and i watched every episode of every season mostly cause i'm married.

bodysnatcher wrote:

given2trade wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:I'm so glad this is over

best post in the thread...and i watched every episode of every season mostly cause i'm married.

yeah, same with me. there were definitely some sunday nights that went:

me: "Hey hun, I think I might go to the driving range and hit some balls"
wife: "Ok, do you want me to wait for you to watch Girls"
me: "Um, no, that's ok."

look at each other, pause for a second, laugh simultaneously.

Bi_3 wrote:It wasn't bad. It had no emotional impact, unlike the previous episode where you could feel that transitional moment for them, but I liked that it showed her as most people are... struggling with real things and not the 'white kids in Brooklyn problems' the show often relied on.