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As a "Girl" I just don't like it...
I'm 20, slightly younger than the "Girls" on this show, but close enough in age that plenty of their problems are relate-able for me. I was really excited for this show - it was like Sex and the City but with younger characters; characters who didn't have great jobs and were NOT yet in a place where they would be really looking for husbands or ready to have children. Sadly, the first episode left kind of a bad taste in my mouth and so did the following ones until I let the series go about 3/4 the way into the season. I think my main problem is the central character, Hannah. I really just couldn't bring myself to like her, which is odd because I think the actress who plays her (also the creator of the show!) Lena Dunham is lovely, and I'm taking a leap by assuming she based a lot of Hannah's personality off of herself. You see, in the first episode she tries to convince her parents to keep financially supporting her by claiming she "feels that she is to voice of her generation...or something (yes, that was heavily paraphrased). I have nothing against aiming big, that's not it. It's just I feel that you can change the world and hold down a paying job at the same time. Also, with the job market still so rocky, wouldn't a better argument be "I just really don't know when I'm going to be able to find a paying job?" Then later on she blows a huge job interview by making, and I am not kidding, a rape joke. Okay, I must admit that I am absolutely not the master of small talk or impressive job interviews but I feel that you would have to be ABSOLUTELY INCOMPETENT to make a rape joke (!) during a freaking JOB INTERVIEW, even with a friendly, like-minded interviewer. I doubt somebody in middle school would ever make that joke - much less a 25 year old woman. I realize it's just a TV show and it was put in there to make for a "fun" (and really, when are rape jokes ever appropriate?) awkward moment, but seriously? There are other things that bothered me, for example the (LE GASP!) 22 year old virgin who the others are shocked to discover has not done the deed. Oh, by the way, this is while they are with Hannah who is getting an STD test (guess how it comes out you guyzzz!). Maybe it's just the bitter teen mother in me talking but is it really that odd to find a 22 year old virgin? Not that I believe there is ANYTHING wrong with premarital sex, but why be unflattering shocked when someone hasn't partaken in it yet? Especially when she is only a college student? I do get that this is just a satire of young womanhood, and this fact has to be taken into thought. Being a girl myself I just don't believe this is how "girls" really are. Maybe it's a New York thing? EDIT: Haha! Okay judging by the fact that somebody went through my profile and disliked everything I've ever reviewed within a half hour I'm going to assume that somebody REALLY likes this show. I really didn't mean to offend, I'm just being honest about not really liking the show!
July 2012 · Movies and TV
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Girls: Season 1 (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)
4.1★ · 4,996 ratings, as of 2023
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