alliehildreth Okay, I get that it addresses real issues of life for people this age, and I respect that. But, it gets kind of hard to watch after a bit. Not because of subject matter or quality of the acting, but because of the characters, especially Hannah. She is the most self absorbed, annoying and attention seeking character that i've ever watched. She can't do anything unless she is the center of attention, and has to make people feel bad for her all the time. She always talks about herself, and I never see her ask any of her partners anything about themselves, and always has to turn every problem that her friends have into something about her. It's also pretty obvious that Lena Dunham writes and produces the show, because she always gives herself the most lines and the most drama (I get that she's the main character but still), and doesn't characterize the supporting characters at all and never elaborates on their drama. Overall, pretty eh show.

SnoopyStyle Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) is an aspiring writer in New York living off of her parents (Becky Ann Baker, Peter Scolari) until they threaten to cut her off. Her roommate is her college friend Marnie Michaels (Allison Williams). Her flighty lifelong friend Jessa Johansson (Jemima Kirke) returns from roaming the world to stay with her college student cousin Shoshanna Shapiro (Zosia Mamet). The four girls struggle to make their way through the world and female friendships. Adam Sackler (Adam Driver) is Hannah's unstable boyfriend who later dates Jessa. Ray Ploshansky (Alex Karpovsky) is their irritable friend who later manages the coffee shop. Hannah's ex Elijah Krantz (Andrew Rannells) comes out of the closet.This is Lena Dunham's voice. Judd Apatow was drawn to her indie movie and helps produce the show with co-showrunner Jennifer Konner. The starting point is Dunham's peculiar NYC sensibilities. Her chubby nudity got the headlines but it's her defiant, troubled, self-obsessed, striving personality that is the heart of this show. It can be quite jarring with its humorous, depressing, and poignant jaunts. It's billed as a new revised Sex and the City but it's almost the polar opposite in many respects. It is far from glamorous but it's not complete reality either. Minorities have minor roles. It's highly questionable why some of the girls stay friends. Some are best described as frienemies. In fact, there is a big bathroom scene in the last season that deals with that issue. It's a rocky road but it stayed on it for the duration.

Carly wise The characters in this show are the most self-absorbed egotistical people I have ever seen. Everyone acts like Lena Dunham has mastered the craft of writing, but when I watch these episodes I think to myself.." I could have written this on my coffee break" I mean seriously ,1 entire episode was Hanna bickering back and forth with a male writer about his misogynistic views and then having the camera cut to a shot of his penis before rolling the credits. Uhhhh .. where is the writing?? This show is just a dizzying portrayal of a bunch of lazy and confused millennials eking their way through life. I tried to warm up to this show, but in the end, it is what it is.

Leftbanker First of all, this show is the dictionary definition of nepotism as most of the people involved are the offspring of the rich and connected. Go look it up. I guess the story pulls all the right strings about women and lesbians or whatever the hell else is fashionable because, man, has this project ever been pampered by the press who just can't get enough of it. I had enough after about ten minutes of the first episode when the protagonist is shell-shocked because her wealthy parents are cutting her off a few years after graduation…from college! What horrible people! But I'm just an intern! Interns are all kids rich enough to not get paid, something I could never swing.Fast forward to the last episode.Just a bit of the glow from the press, this from the NYT:"For starters, it was straight-up funny, an aspect of "Girls" that tends to get lost in all the big-picture conversation around it."What do you call the opposite of funny? That's what it was. She walks around without pants and a cop stops her, like that is supposed to be funny. They need to put "funny" in quotation marks like I did because their definition is definitely non-standard. The sort of hot chick gets caught jerking off and throws her phone. Was that supposed to be "funny?" The episode is full of moronic pop culture references, stuff like Full House. Here's the deal, it's OK if you watched total crap like that growing up but using them as references in adult life is just creepy. Here is another "joke" that shows just what a shallow idiot she is: "A live jazz trio? That's the most disgusting thing I've ever heard."Unfunny and incredibly anti-intellectual at the same time."I'm in emotional pain." Would anyone other than a self-centered half-wit actually say that out loud?Jia Tolentino writes in The New Yorker the opposite of a hatchet job:"The main characters are never more ridiculous than when they are explaining the way they see themselves—in one of Marnie's funniest moments, at her infelicitous wedding, she described her aesthetic as "Ralph Lauren meets Joni Mitchell," with a "nod to my cultural heritage, which is white Christian woman." The fruitlessness of endlessly fine-tuning your self-image—of frantically trying to echolocate* your personhood* against someone else's story, real or fictional—is baked into every episode of the show."If you are using this series to "echolocate" your "personhood" I would suggest finding a source a bit more substantive. Why would this nitwit want to bring a child into the world when she obviously is completely inadequate of managing her own pathetic life?I will be the first to admit that I am too old and too male to get this show. It's made for young women. I get that, but why can't we just ask a little more out of this demographic instead of celebrating the completely mediocre, stupid, and—much, much worse—the anti-intellectual? As if spewing crappy TV show references is what passes for wit and sophistication among this crowd. The same dumpy and lazy kids from Reality Bites who think they are cool but they are mostly just poorly-educated sheep feeding on celebrity gossip, lousy pop music, and whatever food/diet fad is du jour.*Ironically, the spell-check at IMDb flagged these as non-words. I would agree.