Girls - Perseverance and Pithy Tweets

So I haven't written in this for a great many months, clearly defying the first of my many important rules. I would make excuses, but that seems like a great deal of effort that I'd rather spend pretending that I've been doing a bang-up job at this 'blogging' nonsense and carrying on about my business. Seeing as how you're all eager and gleeful followers, I know you won't mind. (You're all super gracious too. And pretty.)

I'm going to spend some time talking about "Girls," because that's what everyone else in TV land has been doing, and I'm nothing if not a slave to trends. (Crocs, snuggies, irony. I have been helpless in the face of their respective siren songs.)

I started hearing a lot about "Girls" around a month ago, and I got very excited for a very silly reason. See, I heard that the show was going to be about four twenty-something ladies living in Brooklyn, being piss-pot poor, and mostly put-upon. Best of all, it was going to be written, directed, and staring Lena Dunham, a real-life 25 year-old with a distinct (hilarious) voice and something to say, dammit.

"At long last!" I cried to my 14 Tumblr followers, "This is will be a show about MY LIFE by someone who GETS IT."

Minor spoilers under the cut for the first three episodes of "Girls."

Shameless - Making Failure Fun

This is a draft I never finished from over a year ago.

I know, I suck. Read me being insightful about the important world of television. You'll forget how terrible I am after a while, honest. Note that this is a year old, so it's only about the first season. Which was awesome.

I haven't watched the second yet. Because, again, I suck.

Look! My excellent words about stuff that makes you forget about how inadequate I am.


"Shameless" is the story of the Gallaghers. The family consists of a mother who walked out eight years ago, a drunk dad who couldn't give two shits, and six children who have had to rally around each other to keep their ramshackle group together. Fiona, the eldest of the kids, is the one charged with keeping the bills paid, food on the table, and everyone alive long enough to get out of the house, and it's only because of her that the family's been able to keep on keeping on.

As a show that tries to make people laugh to keep them from crying, "Shameless" has the difficult task of being hilarious while also being poignant. And while sometimes the tone of the episodes can veer wildly into one direction or the other, more often than not the series is able to find the perfect balance between comedy and drama, the result of which is a damn fun TV show.