Phillip Maciak
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Regrettably Titled.
I really enjoyed this post, Maria! Mine on Wednesday will speak to many of the same issues, so I look forward to an ongoing conversation. I think you bring up a really good point about Girls in particular being saddled with a disproportionate amount of gr ... -
The hand behind the hand.
Chizoba, I take the diversity criticism of Girls very seriously. I think it's on the money, I think critics have an ethical obligation to make it, and I think if more television shows were subject to the intensity of that critique, television as a wh ... -
Fantasia
Thanks both of you for your thoughtful replies. Ashar, I think a lot of this does indeed have to do with genre. And just as their aesthetics are opposed, so too are their genres. Game of Thrones—realistic as it may be—is a fantasy series, generically. And ... -
Intelligent Design
Ashar, I love your play with the valences of the "accidental" in regard to criticism about Girls. It strikes me that much of the writing about Girls—both immediate, tweet-length cheers and jeers as well as more elaborately considered works of cr ... -
Accidents Will Happen
Melissa, this is a really incisive read of Dunham's race issues, especially because, as you point out, they are not exclusively hers. "Girls exemplifies the accidental failures of neoliberal multiculturalism to account for whiteness as an articu ...