Online is the official online companion to the PBS series LIBERTY The American Revolution. It features a wealth of interactive information on the American. On cable TV, we have become used to seeing a lot of sex and nudity on certain networks and in certain TV shows. Game of Thrones is the most famous of the lot, causing. HBO Entourage Homepage. All Your Favorite Entourage Moments are on HBO NOWRemember Ari laying waste to his old office with a paintball gunOr Vinces starring turn in Medell Now you can watch every one of your favorite scenes using the standalone streaming service HBO NOW. The Cunning American Bitch Episode of GirlsLena Dunham with Matthew Rhys, who played a memoirist with a troubled reputation and problems with women, on a recent episode of Girls. Credit. PHOTOGRAPH BY CRAIG BLANKENHORN HBO The key to American Bitch, Sundays scathing and timely episode of Girls, is the compliments. He has a framed Woody Allen poster its Woody with his head ringed by a medieval saints golden halo, holding a gun to his head. Hes got an ex wife with whom he fights over custody their biracial daughter plays the flute. He tells Hannah that he once ate so many chocolate covered cherries that he stuck his finger down his throat. Those walls are also filled with photorealistic paintings of the apartment itself its a sly visual reference to the memoir, particularly the twisty, half denied, half admitted moral gray area of creative nonfictiona tattletale skill that Hannah, Chuck, and Lena Dunham and Philip Roth, for that matter, along with most sitcom writers, comedians, graphic novelists, and pop lyricists specialize in. Theres so much to see and do at the American Museum of Natural History. Squawk Alley Squawk Alley June 2, 2017 Season 2017 Episode 602 622017 The mornings top business stories with a focus on technology and innovation. This American Life Episode 207This American Life Episode 259But online, college girls have been writing their own mini memoirs about Chuck scathing Tumblr posts about non consensual blow jobs. Hannah wrote a post about those girls on a niche feminist site, condemning Palmer for having exploited his fans. He wants to defend himself, it seems. Hannah is nervous when she arrives, fixing her lipstick in the gilded elevator, then holding onto her handbag because she doesnt plan to stay long. But even while the two argueas he complains to her about witch trials, and how shes wasting her talent on gossiphe keeps on steadily complimenting her, a drip of sedative, calling her funny, funny, funny. The praise pays off Hannah relaxes her guard. Something else happens, of course American Bitch is a trick episodeand while it stands alone, it also serves as a bookend to an earlier Girls episode, One Mans Trash, which was also directed by Richard Shepard. That episode, the fifth of Season 2, was about Hannahs interaction with another middle aged man who owns enviable real estate a Brooklyn brownstone. In One Mans Trash, Hannah fell into a dizzy, idyllic, intensely sensual weekend with a lonely, older, divorced man, Joshua, and got three days off from her life, during which she was treasured for her youth, took a luxurious shower, got wrapped in a towel and carried to bed when she fainted, played naked Ping Pong, was given a rare orgasm one of the only scenes of good sex on the show and, also, listened to. Finally, however, Hannah sabotaged this utopia, accidentallyon purpose she chattered confessions that made her seem crazy, or at least too unstable to be cute. Pokemon Season 18 Episode 19. It was a private encounter, the kind that only the two people involved could understand. It ended with Hannah waking up alone in that bourgeois fantasy house, then acting as if she were an adult she ate toast, read the paper, made the bed, and, finally, before leaving, acted responsibly, taking the garbage out. In contrast, American Bitch is that storys poisoned underside its not about healing but humiliation, and the kinds of messes that cant be cleaned up. As Hannah and Chuck keep moving together, from the foyer to the living room to the kitchen to the bedroom, they have a clever debate, one that is not merely about sexual assault but about fame, money, literary ethics, and the benefits and dangers of the Internet. Its a power game thats a little bit Mamets Oleanna, a little bit Chabons Wonder Boys, a little bit Apatows Funny People, with some Clouds of Sils Maria, plus the recent Easy episode starring Marc Maron. In certain ways, its a classic exchange between an older artist rich, decadent, in print and a younger artist poor, moralistic, online. Chuck scores some points its the women who throw themselves at him, he argues, because they are seeking stories to tell. Who really has the power, he asks the zitty older virginhimor a beautiful young model Hannah resists those arguments she scores her points, too. She shares a story about having being groomed by a grade school teacher, another older man who selected her, making her feel chosen and special a story thats one of Lena Dunhams own real life stories, which she wrote about in her memoir. Chuck sympathizes. Eventually, he asks Hannah about herselfas, he suggests, a form of ethical payback for the exploitative relationships with his fans he never really listened to the other young women, but now hell listen to her, see her as a person, in order to make up for it. Its a shady move, one that plays to Hannahs ego, the part of her that once, high on opium, felt like the voice of her generation. Along the way, Chuck makes her pity him, telling her about how he cant sleep without pills, how hes back in therapy, how fearful he is of his daughter finding out about the rumors. He makes Hannah feel like a colleague, an equal. By the time Chucks offering Hannah a gift from the shelf in his bedroom, hes already won. Its a trap laid by a narcissist for another narcissist. Who among us can say we wouldnt ever fall for one of thoseThe last passage of the episode is a nasty joke that Philip Roth himself would surely appreciate. In the bedroom, once hes called Hannah funny again and given her that copy of  When She Was Good Roths novel about a female do gooder who tries to improve men, Chuck asks her to lie on the bed with him. Hannah says shes sorry for writing something uninformed, something that hurt him. Chuck tells her that hes not angry. And then he adjusts himself, and, in a move that has to be practiced, pulls out his cock and puts it on her thigh. On impulse, Hannah reaches down and touches it. Then she leaps out of the bed, horrified. Chuck transforms, like the wolf pulling off Grandmas nightcap he grins, Matthew Rhyss perfect crooked grin. Chuck has shoved Hannah straight into the gray area, the one that generally shuts women up shed gone to his bedroom and accepted a gift, she agreed to lie down with him, she touched him. Theres no way she could ever tell this story about a famous man without the story becoming about her. The compliments were lures. And he knows, after all, that his daughter will arrive at 3 P. M. When the doorbell rings and the daughter arrives, she plays a concert for the two of them. Hannah stares at Chuck, but he only looks at his daughter. He beams, staring forward he got what he wanted. His true kink seemed to be tricking her into it. American Bitch is a cunning episode its a timely one, too. It has one major flaw, although it doesnt harm the episodes effectiveness Hannah doesnt feel much like the character weve watched for six seasons. That person has acted a bit like Chuck at times she macked on one middle aged boss and flashed another she slept with a teen boy she nearly forced her sweet boyfriend to receive a blow job he kept rejecting. Its part of what makes Hannah such an original character her sexual chaos, her willingness to embrace abjection, the fact that she wont take a no, even when it turns her into the butt of someone elses joke. The Hannah in American Bitch feels more like Lena Dunham, in her ideas if not her biography. Its Hannahs creator who has become, over six seasons, a voice for feminism, elevating other womens voices in Lenny Letter its Dunham who talks about rape culture and her experience as a survivor.