![]() “Painfully narcissistic, shockingly tone-deaf and generally just one of the most insufferable people you’ll ever meet”. But she obviously means something to dear sensible Old Man Ray, as does Marnie, and Shosh, and probably even Jessa - all of whom the above description could apply to in slightly varying degrees. Or to quote two of the several meta-comments about the protagonist’s personality: “Hannah’s being Hannah”. While Adam doesn’t know it, Hannah’s inside the house at this moment refusing to do anything to her hair that isn’t “her”. He knows her well enough to know that rollers are not a very Jessa thing at all, and for some reason - not long after seeing Hannah and Fran in the Leather-Bound Man-Creche of Awkward Monosyllables And Transcendence - that makes him want to kiss her. Just before he kisses her, his eyes flicker over her face like he’s figuring something out, looking at the rollers in particular. But for that very reason it makes a sort of messy sense: abandoned by Hannah and determined to stay on the wagon, Jessa and Adam bonded last year, and that (and their shared world-weary, smokes-and-sex-hair, I-found-these-clothes-on-the-street vibe) gives them a connection that has clearly deepened over the past six months.Īdam’s glee at the sight of Jessa in rollers and the relative animation and intimacy of their conversation speaks to a friendship that’s become easy and maybe even liberating in the aftermath of his breakup. I mean, it’s a bit of an about-face to have them suck face (sorry) when their entire arc last season revolved around Jessa seemingly scheming to break up Hannah and Adam so he would keep Gillian Jacobs busy enough that Jessa could bang Zachary Quinto - a storyline that was actually just about Jessa channeling her boredom while she stuck with her sobriety. ![]() Jessa, visibly taken aback at the fact she’s been given a nuanced plotline. That said, I had to pause to actually weep with laughter when she enunciated carefully that their hair and makeup should pay tribute to her “cultural heritage, which is White Christian Woman”. Girl, you and your aggressively tasteful iPad mood-board nuptials could not have nailed “authentic white lady” more if you’d had typographical bunting made from repurposed Anthropologie maxidresses spelling out a quote from Lean In. This opening scene is so perfect it’s a bit of a shame the script had to trowel highlighter onto that idea and then draw a heavy brown outline around it with Marnie’s “I’m so easygoing but run literally everything by me” speech. The apparently perfect effortlessness with which Jessa gives no fucks is a direct affront to Marnie’s constant need to seem chill while actually trying to control everything. ![]() Marnie’s wearing ribcage-to-knee beige shapewear designed to make her look invisibly perfect under her dress, and Jessa doesn’t even need a fucking towel. Marnie is already in her Spanx, Hannah is in PJ pants and an “I WOKE UP LIKE THIS” sweatshirt, and Jessa is floating in looking like the platonic ideal of an effortless hippie bride, having bathed in a stream and then run through a field to dry herself. ![]() There’s loads to unpack just in that very first scene alone. ![]()
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