baddmachine I tried. I really did give it a fair chance, but this is one of the most pointless and boring shows ever produced. Disclaimer: I'm a heterosexual male so I'm not her target market but I still recognized the good writing and likable characters on Sex and the City. Lena Dunham is a talent-less hack who has no business having her own show ... or showing off her naked body.

Marketa Janeckova "Girls" is the most non-traditional TV series I've ever seen. And it's good. At the beginning it was kind of hard for me to watch it. All these unstable neurotic characters who I did not like at all. But still there was something very attractive for me in this whole Hannah's miserable world, so I kept watching and it was worth it. This TV Series gave me a new look how to think about myself and about my surroundings because I live Hannah's life situation and it's too real. Thanks to all these imperfect characters I started to see me and my friends in different light and whole "Girls" were a sort of way a therapy for me. So if you are from Y generation I recommend it to you, because you should understand.

koofasa Who doesn't love seeing NYC as the background for TV shows? That is the best thing to say about this show. While Sex and the City was sophisticated and fun, Girls is a lowlife version about four young women who are primarily unemployed and self absorbed. The main character is an obese unattractive actress who has massive tattoos and she wears very little clothing, letting her rolls of fat of flap in the wind as if the are an appealing feature. The other actresses are a bit more attractive but they all whine like the main character. Each episode focuses on emotional turmoil and you get the the feeling life will not improve for any of the characters. The worst part about the show is that the girls are not good to each other. They aren't really friends. Each actress only talks about herself and doesn't even pretend to listen to her friends. At least SATC had attractive actresses who were actually friends and they were all employed contributors to society. This show must appeal to the millennials who are also unemployed and unproductive. So sad that HBO took this turn to the low end of entertainment.

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.