Both Liz and Carrie use their oven for storing clothes. Both buy their apartments in season four; both receive significant book advances that mean they never have to learn about money the way they once feared life was going to force them. And of course they've both been burned by Dean Winters.
Re: bumbling in these two shows, and also who Liz is most similar to, I think Miranda and Liz both have a choking-on-dinner-alone-in-apartment scene that prompts deeper reflection. Wild!
Thank you Daniel for your reminder of other female fictional defenestrations. I recall it happening in Prague long ago, for real, with men. I wonder if that was the precedent. Thank you as always for your great writing.
The infamous (and fatal) tumble out the window references the fate of Kay in The Group, Mary McCarthy's masterpiece which, I seem to recall, inspired Candace Bushnell after she read it on the advice of her mother. Re childishness in grown women: it's what my generation of girls were raised to be and many girls still are, the best sort of woman being a breasted idiot. Liz Lemon is at least funny with it, unlike that other sheila. Great piece as always, thank you Daniel
Re: bumbling in these two shows, and also who Liz is most similar to, I think Miranda and Liz both have a choking-on-dinner-alone-in-apartment scene that prompts deeper reflection. Wild!
Thank you Daniel for your reminder of other female fictional defenestrations. I recall it happening in Prague long ago, for real, with men. I wonder if that was the precedent. Thank you as always for your great writing.
Love the brief reference to Skimpole — my mom and I have adopted the habit of saying “I am but a child” in reaction to various things!
Also, with deepest apologies for picking nits — did you mean Mia Farrow’s Rosemary, rather than Carrie Fisher’s?
Whoops, never mind, I think it was me mistaking the Rosemary in question. Sorry!!
The infamous (and fatal) tumble out the window references the fate of Kay in The Group, Mary McCarthy's masterpiece which, I seem to recall, inspired Candace Bushnell after she read it on the advice of her mother. Re childishness in grown women: it's what my generation of girls were raised to be and many girls still are, the best sort of woman being a breasted idiot. Liz Lemon is at least funny with it, unlike that other sheila. Great piece as always, thank you Daniel
Similar falls occur in both Nella Larsen’s “Passing” and Rona Jaffee’s “The Best of Everything”!
Ha! Cheers for a much better take on (one of) the reasons I detest Carrie 😊