Hannah saying “I’m feeling just a little bit frail. Haven’t been eating that much, so I don’t know if I look, like, scary thin or anything.” And Laird responding with “Nope. You look like your voluptuous self to me.” HAS ME CRYING

Caroline Calloway talking about Lena directing her biopic and the Margaret Qualley Jack Antonoff divorce drama https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbGXJaRBy_l/?igsh=MWFjczIybXlzaDFkcw==

I know we all collectively agree that the Panic in Central Park is the magnum opus of the series but there is something incredibly beautiful and comforting about this episode. From the realisation that Adam’s moved on, to the numerous people coming in to stage an intervention, to Ray showing up for Hannah to Adam and Hannah finally breaking things off and the episode ending with Hannah in the storage unit. It’s rare that a break up and closure both come about at the same time but Lena was able to get it so right that it’s still so devastating to watch, years later.

I know this has probably been asked a million times, but I just watched the show for the first time recently and am looking for something to fill the void. I’ve also seen and love Sex and the City if that helps. I’ve heard Broad City is a good one so that’s def on my list of possibilities!

I hadn't thought about how old he was and now in my 30s too as I rewatch this recently. I didn't realise what ages he was or it didn't cross my mind but season 5 I think he references how he's 34. I know it probably came up when he dated Shoshanna but I hadn't thought of an exact age. I wonder how he even ended up friends with them? Is there any lore on that? Or just through the cafe?

Adam and Hannah should’ve stayed together…
maybe not stayed together, but I wanted more time with them after he finds out Hannah is pregnant. I know he and Jessa and all that nonsense. I do think he’s an asshole. That being said… I loved him with pregnant Hannah and I loved seeing how he treated her for that one episode.

I made my sister watch the first few episodes of season 1 with me and she didn’t get it at all. She found it quite boring and asked me what I saw in it. Then I realised that it’s really from season 2 where the show becomes AMAZING. Seeing the way Hannah acts even in the pilot is so crazy because she ends up becoming SO funny in the later seasons like the ‘frail’ scene or the ‘it’s almost summer’ scene.

TLDR: Anyone else agree that this show gets better along the seasons and season 1 isn’t the best season?

I preferred any of the other girls at first, but by the end of the show, I loved Hannah. Shosh becomes the people she hangs out with, Jessa is just absolutely chaotic (which I love at times), Marnie is a crybaby who needs to touch grass. But Hannah is so real, maybe it’s because I have OCD and all of the things that she struggles with. Hannah has no idea what she’s doing next, but she just goes with it.

What episode was Jenny Mollen ( possibly known as Jenny Biggs then) on and who did she play?

She had her random hookups here and there and her 2 month marriage but nothing substantial until Adam.

Considering she was very conventionally attractive and outgoing, her dating lacked depth and quality. Why do you think that was?

lol I know this is pointless I’m just curiousssss

Trump going full Elijah.

Hannah’s mum is Mirandas sister in SATC!!

I’m doing a rewatch for the first time since the show aired and I don’t know if I’m having my own personal mandala effect or if this is real:

At the end of “Ask Me My Name” (season 3, episode 7 - the Mimi-Rose art show), we see Hannah walking down the street and “I Get Along Without You Very Well” is playing. I could have *sworn* that when this aired, it was the Diana Krall cover but what I watched last night was unmistakably Chet Baker.

I realize this is such a dumb and specific question, but does anyone have an answer for me? It’s entirely possible I am misremembering but this episode introduced me to the song (and I thought to Diana Krall) and it’s been a favorite of mine ever since. It’s possible that my search on iTunes afterward lead me to the Diana cover and caused me to rewrite the entire memory. It’s significant to me only because it’s a stand alone cinematic needle drop moment in my brain. Also, I heard on a podcast once that the music from The L Word on streaming is different from when it aired because of rights issues. Could that have happened here, or am I truly just crazy?

Any thots appreciated 🤷‍♀️

Ok so not loving Jessa. Maybe I just don’t relate to her character enough but it’s like she doesn’t give a shit about anyone else. Kinda selfish (but I guess all the characters are). She’s more of a loner which is fine but she goes out of her way to be a bitch, particularly to Hannah in this episode

Marnie sleeps with everyone’s boyfriends or exes and she needs to figure her shit out lol.

And I like Hannah and Shoshanna and don’t really have a lot to say about them.

As an English person, I think Adam’s accent in his broadway play is pretty rubbish, do we think it’s on purpose? Like showing that Adam isn’t that good an actor/Hannah telling him about Iowa ruined his performance? Or can Adam Driver just not do an English accent?

'You describe Mr. Kildahl as having, quote, "phantom centaur butt," which, I'm guessing, is your idea of a humorous remark.’

‘I mean, it's jokey, but what it really is is when a guy has an ass that, like, really sticks out to the point where it seems like a whole horse has been cut off him.’

Couldn’t find it with reverse google search and AI

rewatching sex and the city and this part of the show reminds me of mr booth jonathan. anyone else?

I really enjoyed Famesick and Not That Kind of Girl. Obviously because im a Lena fan but I also love her writing style and the way she reflects on the relationships, sex, lovers, friendship etc in her twenties and thirties. I enjoy the essay-like, funny, personal style of writing. Can anyone recommend somewhat similar books?

I am confused about their last scene. Why are they shopping for baby stuffs, talking about their plans about raising the baby, then suddenly they're crying?? Is it because they know deep down that none of it could work?

I'm so frustrated because Adam used to be such a well-written character, then season 5 and 6 happened... they should just leave it at s4 finale, everyone looked so happy after helping Caroline's childbirth..☹️

This season absolutely lost me. I think it started great, I loved Hannah getting published. This pregnancy plot and Adam coming back to Hannah for all of one day and the movie he made with Jessa??? The pregnancy and keeping the baby and moving to that house and Marnie going out there too is what really throws me off. It all seems so out of left field in attempt to wrap up the show and I hate when that happens!!! I was absolutely obsessed until the end :/

I am 19, just finished my first year of university/college whatever you wanna call it (I am from London). So this was an insane watch. Obviously I have known of Lena Dunham due to her polarising existence as a pop culture figure and this show was very realistic and vulnerable and she truly wrote what she knew (apart from the pregnancy stuff obviously).

My favourite part of this show was Elijah and Hannah's friendship. My least favourite dynamic was Adam and Jessa. That was so horrible. Marnie was completely throwing me off throughout the whole show. Shoshanna finally realising she needed to stop being friends with them made me so happy because the energy in those friendships were so horrible. Like they were not good friends with each other at all.

An episode I really despised all of their behaviour in the episode where Marnie hosted them in the Hamptons but not the hamptons, and the way they fought with eachother really hurt me. Like that was really a great portrayal of how they don't deserve to have good friends and why the ending makes so much sense to me because how can you go on a trip with your friend and it's genuinely so shit. I would hate this life.

A really strong episode for me was Hannah and Chuck Palmer. That was such a powerful narrative of an episode and I really really really enjoyed that and the execution of it. That was a real stand out for me. I honestly haven't stopped thinking about that episode.

I will probably add more to this, but Lena Dunham... wow.