For guys and tiny-jeans preteens who might not know this, there is a modern kind of “foundation garment” that American women now keep on hand to wear with clingy dresses. The brand that made it famous is called Spanx, and it’s spandex, but no number of sporty x’s and cheerful rebranding can hide the truth: it’s a girdle.
Anyway, Lena Dunham recently appeared wearing Spanx for a hipster sex scene in the deadpan web series “Tight Shots,” in what might be the least flattering erotica ever to appear on the Web. (A few moments are not safe for work.)
The guy she has sex with, Rel (Ariel), later describes the experience as “the worst sex I ever had in my life, worse than the first time I had sex, worse than not having sex.” It doesn’t stop there: “She makes the strangest sounds,” Rel says. “Like an early modem, from 1992, the first time you ever logged onto the Internet.”
But don’t feel too bad for Lena. Ms. Dunham, a college filmmaker, conceived and blocked this self-savaging scene herself and wrote the dialogue about how bad her character is in bed. “Tight Shots,” which premiered on the sexy cool Nerve Video on July 10, is her production — a daffy serial about kids trying to make a movie and be artsy and have tons of sex. (An element of reality TV may have crept in: Ariel, the actor who seems to use only his first name, says he “was completely unaware of the camera and was actually trying to sleep with everyone in the cast.”) Everyone in “Tight Shots” is annoying, hilarious, familiar and also totally touching, if you’ve ever had a soft spot for Oberlin/Bennington/Vassar/Brown people.
There are five short episodes, and about “Tight Shots” all I really can say is: JUST WATCH.
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