Hit HBO series goes to the beach!
Of course you don’t watch the HBO series Girls but no doubt you’ve heard of it. The show might have once been clever but now exists purely as a vehicle for a very unattractive Lena Dunham to get as unattractively nude as possible in order to goad the viewer into wincing at her unattractiveness then degrading the wincing viewer by suggesting he/she is the problem with society because he/she body shames and makes girls feel badly about themselves.
It is very try-hard and silly etc. because Lena Dunham looks like Shrek on purpose but I watched last night’s season six premier because it involved our beloved surfing!
Lena Dunham’s character Hannah was sent to write about a surf camp in Montauk for a magazine. The editor described surfing as “shitty yoga” and that made me smile very much. Hannah shows up, anyhow, and the camp has a very non-Montauk Hawaiiana vibe, many older rich women and a Pakistani surf instructor described by Yahoo! TV as:
…an experienced wave rider played by Riz Ahmed who combines the effortless cool of Jan-Michael Vincent in Big Wednesday with the sheer studliness of Patrick Swayze in Point Break.
And he was so effortlessly cool and the whole surf camp looked so fun! Like, open mic karaoke at night and very many fruity cocktails etc. And do these sorts of things really exist on the mainland of the United States or Australia? Very fun surf camps? Is this a thing? Have you been to one?
If it is not a thing I am still happy that surfing remains culturally relevant enough to be used as a vehicle within a vehicle for a very unattractive Lena Dunham to get as unattractively nude as possible in order to goad the viewer into wincing at her unattractiveness then degrading the wincing viewer by suggesting he/she is the problem with society because he/she body shames and makes girls feel badly about themselves.
Viva surfing!
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Nice work Chas!
Your best piece in a while Chas! You’re never as good as when you fully embrace being a surf journalist and fight for your love of it…
Which one of you Beach Grit’rs wrote this episode based on a personal life experience?
Imagine the pungent stench of gas and semi-formed stool emanating from that toilet!
Chas smith shaming women. what a scumbag.
When is Rory Parker coming back?
Mmmm, cake.
It’s funny, I used to kind of feel the same way about Chas’ writing. You know, the “I’m so fucking cool, cool had to look ME up in the dictionary” – type of naval-gazing self-aggrandizement. But then I realized, that’s just Chas’ way of coping with his self-esteem issues, and we love him even more for it (BTW, we all have our ways – mine just so happen to involve me reinacting the Jame Gumm scenes from “Silence of the Lambs”). And before you even ask, yes, “I’d fuck me.”
But Lena Dunham is a beast of another beast. Having attempted to make it through the first season of GIRLS in hopes that I too, might also become as “‘woke” as Dunham, sadly the incessant flouting of her F.U.P.A., flap-jack titties and side-rolls made that dream impossible. For some strange reason, now even reading her name online conjures horrific visions of her, five years from now, intentionally participating in a “Bang Bus” video to show us all — just how committed she is to her “art”… She might have her own HBO show Chas, but she will never have your caliber of fans (of which I definitely include myself).
…careful, your ribs will hurt if you gag.
Fuck me. This is a bit rough Chas. Say another publication wrote in this manor…you would be all over them claiming some elitist body image shit.
Uhhhhhhh no I wouldn’t.
Well in any case, this may be related to how you lost your best writer.
Check his latest podcast.
Who was our best writer?
Yeah I’m also forgetting his name but he was so good that I recall his articles getting rehashed after his departure.
Imagine that: Lena Dunham says something perfectly reasonable.
I once worked at a San O area sleepover camp that had an ‘adult week’ which was very much like what was described here. Except the the chic montauk fruity cocktails were cold cans of beer and there were hook ups in dirty tents that had been occupied by tweeners with small bladders all summer.
I don’t know if there is one in Australia but by christ I’m thinking of starting one.
Difficult to believe Byron doesn’t have about 7 already. If you need a face for the Noosa campaign, get your people to call my people.
You’ll be there first to know Julian’s Postie! We’ll drag all Australia’s budding Lena Dunhams to the Earthly Paradise of the North!
Mate, they’re already here. It’s just, do you really want to tap that market?
I watch the show! Just watched it, in fact. I also wince at Lena’s on screen nudity. And my wife berates me for it: she doesn’t wince, but I do. I guess that’s the point. If things were the other way around and it was a dude flaunting their ugly nudity every episode it would just be funny.
no!!! at best it would be borat, but even that would get old.
some of the actors on the show are great — jemima kirke, adam driver, david mamet’s daughter — but the lena gross-out jokes kill the whole vibe
yeah, but that’s what I’m saying – gross naked dudes don’t gross out dudes. And gross naked Lena doesn’t gross out females: if anything it empowers them to care less about their own physical shortcomings. So as this is chick-centric tv we just need to accept it and look away when she starts undressing.
Call me what you want but I watch the show for Adam Driver and the dude that plays “Ray”, they actually make the show bearable. The women on the show, Dunham especially, are cringe worthy. Seeing Lena Dunham’s bush yesterday caused me to proclaim, “Aw fuck! I was having a good day!” out loud. Viva Surfing!
Oh when I’ve watched the show it sparkles every time Lena D is off screen…
Whoa! Lena D hater alert! Did she snake you at Pipes or something?
Turtles! But it may have been a seal…
bahahaha. comment of the week.
Maybe the most succinct description of Lena Dunham’s modus operandi I’ve read.