I’m going on I think my 3rd re-watch of Girls and I’ve arrived at season 2, episode 1: It’s About Time. Wherein Sackler has gotten hit by the truck, because he was standing in the middle of the road, engrossed in telling Hannah off about everything he thinks is wrong with her. I really love Girls more than part of me thinks I should, and stuff like this is why. Because it puts me through stuff that’s good for me as a woman to think about. I normally wouldn’t even watch this kind of show, but of course I was drawn there, red-blooded American human that I am, by Adam Driver. Who I am pretty sure (if I’m right) and would like to believe (if I’m wrong) is NOTHING like Adam Sackler. I normally hate shows like this with a passion, actually, because all they represent to me is women of immense privilege, acting really really dumb, which is something that causes me to cringe a lot. Here in this episode, for instance, Hannah is hooking up with a token black Republican. I’m kind of politically conservative myself, but if I were a left-leaner, why on EARTH would I be fucking a Republican? It makes no sense. Republicans being usually more socially conservative, casual sex outside of marriage doesn’t make any sense either, so one of the things we are dealing with here is Hollywood’s campaign to program young adults into not caring enough about meaning and sense to stop rutting like animals. At the same time, even as a Christian, I wanna say I get the whole thing about the sex. Adam Sackler is hawt, even though he’s irritating, and no one should put up with a guy treating them like that. I’ve arrived at the place in the episode where Sackler is laid up, and Hannah is helping him to pee, bringing his pills and whatnot. He’s telling her, he’s ok with there being no labels, and still has the nerve to talk about LOVE. She’s coming here to her ex’s place even though she’s with someone else right now, and taking care of him out of guilt, even though he himself told her not to do anything from guilt, even though he wouldn’t let her in the ambulance and told the guy she was a monster… And I’m glad she told him, “Well, it’s not your choice, it’s MY choice!” Here’s some other stuff I wish she would have said: “So you go hard on commitment, and you TOLD me that? But yet you tell me you FINALLY LOVE ME, or whatever, but then decided to TAKE THAT AWAY because I’m DOING IT WRONG for some reason? On what planet is that love, Adam? Why can’t you think about everything I’VE done, and changed over in myself, and set aside my dreams and plans about who I am and what I wanna do, in order to be your slut? Is that not worth anything? And I’ve been happy to be the “woman without a label” in your life because it was what YOU wanted, even when I DIDN’T want it anymore.” Also, season 2, episode 3, Bad Friend: “When did you eat jerky?” Best fucking question ever. #AdamSackler #Girls
