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Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Stick the Landing

On one hand, I'm thrilled about The Ringer's Andy Greenwald doing a new podcast, Stick the Landing, all about tv series finales. On the other hand he's already done Mad Men, Friday Night Lights, The Office and now Girls so now I'm like wait, how soon into the show's run are we gonna run out of shows I love and would be looking forward to hearing about on the podcast? 🤔 🤷‍♂️

On this morning's episode about Girls they talked about about how upset everybody was about the lack of diversity there was in the show's first season, with everybody being white.

"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), “didn't you - rather controversially at the time, I might add - land on Lena Dunham's side of things on this subject back in 2013?"

Sigh. Yes I did, faithful readers, YES I did:
The HBO Show du Moment Girls is getting some shit for being so "white." On one hand I'd love to pounce on this as another reason the show sucks; on the other, I have several pockets of girl friends here in NYC, and I'm not sure any of them include a black woman in their circle. So then the question becomes well, is it MORE offensive for Lena Dunham to do the ol' "look I'm so diverse, I have a black friend!" than simply ask us to live with what may be natural for a quartet of 24 year-old white girls in NYC?

All my years growing up in Virginia and even during a brief stay in Mississippi, I had plenty of black friends. Yet here I am in New York City, the melting pot of melting pots, and I don't have a single black friend. Isn't that something.Living in NYC doesn't automatically turn your hipster loft into a post-racial mix of diversity any more than living in Bumfuck, Iowa automatically makes you a white supremest.
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