So Girls came back and I am falling in love all
over again. Had I been born twenty years earlier, I would have been a Miranda.
Right now I like to think of myself as a Hannah whose indoorsy little heart
wishes desperately to be as cool as Jessa, but most people peg me as a
Shoshanna. I think people criticize Girls as a modern rip-off of SATC, but
who says Generation Y can't use it's own culturally relevant set of
twenty-somethings? Because Hannah Horvath is in every way my spirit
animal. I totally understand her when she wants something exciting/tragic
to happen to her because it will finally and truly make her an Artist with a
capital A. And I am all too familiar with her unfortunate encounters with the
cottony sticks of evil marketed as Q-Tips (Pro tip: don’t use them.) And as
ditsy as Shosh’s dialogue sounds compared to the carefully constructed and
in-your-face metaphorically resonant monologues of female television drama
protagonists, THAT IS HOW PEOPLE SPEAK. In response to criticism of Lena
Dunham’s so-called white-washed, privileged background, I guess my response is
this: there are no irrelevant lives. Lena is a creative and smart and funny young woman who writes what she knows, which is what we all should be
doing. To quote Georgia O’Keeffe, “Where I was born and where and how I have
lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should
be of interest."
Anyhow, here is a Very Important Review of the best Hannah lines of Season 3, Episode 2.
"I'm like unrelentingly itchy, is that road trip thing?"
"I'm just realizing this road trip is just not a metaphor. It just isn't."
"This rocking chair is so pointy. it's not giving me any room to express myself."
"But you know what Adam? I don't want to do it. And it's really liberating to say no to shit you hate."
"It made me remember what it was like in college when you'd say, 'Oh, meet me at the Free Palestine party' and then I find out you're over at the Israel house."
TTYL,
Ana
