Ashar Foley
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Grief or 'getting down'?
The mirror Girls holds up is, perhaps, a speculum. There is something blithely confessional about the show that borders on shocking--hence the wave of critique that met it in 2012. I remember watching it the first time and being absolutely put off by Hann ... -
There's sex and there's sex.
I haven't watched much of GOT, but what I did watch was full of sex, sure enough. Sex in the GOT world, like life, takes place in close proximity to death. The characters can and do go at any time, and their actions are suffused with the hope of immo ... -
Briefly
From the A.V. Club article, it sounds like Glover's character aims to press Hannah on her as-yet-untested college-bred liberalism as it pertains to race. I'm not given to (or good at) making predictions, but I'm floored that Glover's c ... -
Intent v. Accident
Thanks for your comments, everyone! I'm still thinking through Girls, and I think the issue of intention versus accident is a key one to explore as we get to the bottom of the show's arguably evasive racial politics. Along with Chizoba, and in t ... -
Intent v. Accident II
It's interesting to me that, when we talk about auteurs, we traditionally talk about the intentional rather than "accidental" choices--the latter being no less organic to and distinctive of the auteur. Are there entirely accidental auteurs? ...