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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lena Dunham = the millenial's woody Allen. Woody Allen is certainly no looker, and yet he somehow managed to cast himself opposite some beautiful women without being subjected to opprobrium for his looks. Hmmm wonder why ....[/quote]

The difference is that Woody Allen could write well.  His stuff is actually interesting, witty, funny.  He doesn't insert a bunch of nudity into everything just for the sake of having awkward nude scenes.

Lena Dunham is not very clever.  Her work isn't very good.  And basically, she does the same thing over and over.  the awkward nude scene once in the series or even twice could be artistic.  But she does it in every show.  I tried and tried to give her show a chance, because I do think that a show about 4 women that is less "fashion-centric" than Sex in the City would be great.  But her show just fell flat.

And frankly I put her in the category of people who die their hair bright pink "to be different" but then get all indignant if someone notices that their hair is pink.  If you do something to try to be different or get attention or draw attention or put on display something, then don't get all bent out of shape and defensive if people then scrutinize it.

I'm not a fan of lots of unnecessary nude scenes.  I think that it is rarely central to the story line, and it often distracts from the substance of a show.  and the cable networks (HBO, Showtime, Starz) seem to be guilty of this.   It would be a bolder statement to make a show or a series for one of those networks that didn't pander to the brute masses by lots of nudity.  It's one of the reasons I think that AMC should really be commended.  They have some fantastic series with huge numbers of viewers, and they don't resort to nudity.  Now, it could be argued that they make up for it with violence, but I think that for a show about drug dealing, Breaking Bad has a lot less violence than they could've used.

Anyhow, I just don't think in this day and age it takes much courage to show nudity, even awkward nudity.  I'm getting sick and tired of the notion that every show about women or their interpersonal lives has to show a lot of nudity.  But I think it's how the networks draw in viewers who aren't interested in good dialog or interesting plot lines or character development.  It's how they appeal to the base masses.  I think, frankly, it's why Game of Thrones has so much nudity (sometimes nudity that really has little to do with any of the plot lines); they're trying to appeal to people who aren't patient or intelligent enough to follow the complicated plot lines.  [/quote]

Why are you so afraid of a naked body?[/quote]

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