Black People Review Girls (2.2): Dear Joe, Nothing Happened

January 21st, 2013 by Racialicious Team

Anyway the episode ends with Hannah accidentally getting Adam arrested after he breaks into her apartment using the key she gave him “for emergencies”, but by this time I’d tuned out again. I was busy wondering if Hannah’s subsequent breakup with Sandy means that his arc on the show is over. If he really was just a two-episode plot device to say something pseudo-insightful about race before leaving, and thus ensuring that neither Hannah, nor the audience, ever has to think about it again.

It’s kind of sad, really. There is a lot of television out there that I find problematic. There are a lot of showrunners out there who I find problematic. Yet, when it comes to shows like The Vampire Diaries, The Big Bang Theory, or Teen Wolf, there’s the redeeming factor of an at least slightly engaging entertainment value.

You read that right: I’m more engaged watching The Big Bang Theory than I am watching Girls.

The point is, while I’ll still critique them, I’m perfectly capable of enjoying things written by people I find distasteful so long as they’re somewhat entertaining. Girls is not that, and that makes Lena Dunham’s various shenanigans even more frustrating. She gets away with a lot for producing some extremely average work.

But, hey. That’s being white in Hollywood, isn’t it?

Cheers,

Kendra

PS. I hope you had a fantastic weekend. I didn’t talk about mine, because the Girls season premiere summed it up pretty accurately. So just watch that, but envision more minorities.

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  • http://twitter.com/XXI BCJ.

    You’re right, it was incredibly boring. And all of Lena’s bold ignorance just makes it that much more distasteful.

  • justlikeoldtimes

    The phrase “You can like problematic things” often comes up in every race/gender in pop culture discussion.

    But it’s also okay to dislike them too!

  • SuperHyugaYoshichan

    Lena Dunham makes me yawn.
    But there is good news that has nothing to do with this: The Unwritten Rules, a YouTube series, is WAY better than this! :)

  • justlikeoldtimes

    Let’s not make this an issue of Dunham’s appearance. Lena Dunham would love to be considered the champion of the Average-Looking Woman’s Liberation Movement… as long as the average women we’re talking about are exclusively white.

  • SuperHyugaYoshichan

    True, thank you for checking me on that. Iprolly shoulda said her facial expression….