Lena Dunham explains "Girls" romance with Patrick Wilson

Lena Dunham is getting a lot of backlash after Sunday night's episode of "Girls," titled "Another Man's Trash," featured her character Hannah Horvath in the throes of passion with big-screen heartthrob Patrick Wilson, a.k.a. Dr. Joshua. Many critics are calling the episode a "fantastical, implausible story," but these writers may be surprised that Dunham sort of agrees with them.

The episode begins with Hannah dressed in a skimpy jumper showing up at the handsome, 40-something Joshua's (not Josh) brownstone in Brooklyn where the two begin a whirlwind, highly sexual romance that ends after two nights and involves a nude Ping-Pong scene.

"I kind of wrote episode five in a fever dream," Dunham, 26, says of the now-controversial scenario in a HBO "Inside the Episode" piece. "Hannah got lost in a version of what could be her life."

The Golden Globe winner continues, "I like the idea that in her fantasy life she might be loved by sort of a stable, attractive older man with a great Brooklyn house."

Ep. 15: Inside The Episode

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Critics from Esquire, Slate and Entertainment Weekly tore this episode apart, with even the feminist blog Jezebel writing: "Basically, nobody thought that it was remotely plausible that a successful doctor who looked like Patrick Wilson would be into a girl who looked like Lena Dunham."

Meanwhile, Slate's Daniel Engber said of the episode: "Narcissistic, childish men sleep with beautiful women all the time in movies and on TV, so why should this coupling be so difficult to fathom? I think it's because Hannah is especially and assertively ugly in this episode."

What do you think? Is this "Girls" romance between Dunham and Wilson so "implausible"?

[MelanieKell]

The writer of this article completely took the Jezebel quote out of context. That quote in the Jezebel article was just summarizing the reaction to the episode. All you have to do is read one line up:

"So let's take some of that "feedback" today from some recappers for whom the topless ping-pong went totally over their heads.

Basically, nobody thought that it was remotely plausible that a successful doctor who looked like Patrick Wilson would be into a girl who looked like Lena Dunham."

Here is the original source of the quote, which isn't even linked in this CBS new article!: http://jezebel.com/5983437/what-kind-of-guy-does-a-girl-who-looks-like-lena-dunham-deserve

This is pretty appalling journalism for such a mainstream news media outlet.

[lilizinhasa]

Is very possible.Loves in the air.

[TAJ_1]

I don't watch the show, but I don't think Patrick Wilson is even remotely handsome, either (they seem pretty even, in looks, to me), so I don't get why this story is all over the entertainment news.

[Mabel99]

It is not unbelievable that a good looking person would be attracted to someone less attractive. It happens all the time. But what is unbelievable is the amount of time Hannah is topless. If Hannah is as obessed with her body as she acts, she would not whip off her top so easily or so often.