Mentions (38)
"I said it was a show that encouraged pursuing shallow & fleeting millennial desires and how the show's glamorization of the pursuit of fame and success in America is, in reality, largely empty and unfulfilling (this is why Girls is Unironically brilliant)."
"Was about to ring up this blonde girl w a Jersey accent and as she's walking up she goes "have you seen the HBO show girls? Has anyone ever told you that you look like the main character?""
"Girls gets a lot of hate but mostly because people don't realize how self-aware it is as a show- it truly hits on so many realities of young adulthood in a very honest and funny way."
"Adam is just so so strange and absolutely hysterical. Never a dull moment on this show. Been sick as a dog the past few days and I'm rewatching it"
"Take someone like Lena Dunham. The average person now wouldn't consider her attractive now, but when she was in her Girls era and was thinner and wore cute clothes most people would probably consider her cute to pretty (at least by normal people standards- not Hollywood celebrity standards.)"
"Also the characters she writes and how flawed they are probably puts up a mirror to a lot of people and it makes them uncomfortable. I quite like Lena Dunham. I see myself a lot in her characters and it give me clarity, something that i can never hate someone for."
"was out the other night and a college aged younger sister of a girlfriend of mine said she's never going to watch girls because Lena Dunham is a pedo. i mean the pebble story was weird but overblown in my opinion. she was seven years old! her father paints buttholes for a living! this day and age of"
"People bitched about the characters on Girls being entitled yet everyone except Jessa was actively pursuing their dreams and struggling and failing along the way. Hannah especially faced the most criticism, but for what? For having artistic ambitions? She was a creative with something of actual valu"
"HBO had sort of a streaming "on demand" service back in the day, waited for my parents to leave for the supermarket on a brisk Saturday in 2013, fired up the TV shut all the blinds and got to work. Later that week my parents were watching the show and I was kinda hovering around the living room tryi"
"And of course, there's the show I can't stop rewatching, Girls. I guess you can say Hannah succeeds in the end, but still, the whole show is mostly about her constant disappointment in the pursuit of her writing dreams (as well as the spectacular flame-out of Marnie's music dreams). Hannah has many "
"It's such a perfect time capsule of that point in the 2010s. The music, the clothes, the cameo choices. Charlie making a bunch of money from an app."
"I remember being a teen when I first watched it and being obsessed with Brooklyn then I went and it was just like Montreal but like worse"
"But I just rewatched for the first time since it aired and it would absolutely suck if they decided to add in a bunch of minority cast members. Mostly because forcing an artist to change their art to satisfy some outside force is antithetical to expression, but also because it's fucking Girls. A sho"
"I'm watching Girls for the first time and loving it. I think Lena Dunham is brilliant (and I miss problematic celebrities, bring her back). The only issue is that she has so many nude scenes and I struggle to look at her body."
"This shit is funny as fuck. Why did everyone hate Lena Dunam back in the day?"
"Can't believe I'm saying this but young Lena Dunham is a 1. Something about her dumpling body and Quasimodo face has awakened something primordial deep within me. Also Nick Mullen is just aping Adam's whole schtick."
"I recently finished Girls for the first time (great show, honestly one of my new faves) and one misconception I had about the show that I heard from various sources was that the show excuses awful behavior and portrays bad people in a positive light. This is NOT true, it's a show about imperfect but"
"it's not like girls or entourage and I don't mean tonally or something I mean funny at all."
"Curently at one of my personal rock bottoms and watching girls for the first time. I think it is great, but I cant help but wonder like would Hannah get someone like Adam, or like Farn?!?"
"Idk what American examples there are, maybe HBO Girls was the only example of this working, and nothing else can replicate it without being self-absorbed."
"Finished Girls and absolutely hated how Ray ended up with Shoshanna's fat ex-boss"
"idk im not gonna write an essay about this lady but everything she touches as like a professional is good. HBO Girls, her podcast the C word is genuinely good, her writing isnt bad at all."
"It would be like that episode of girls when Ray visits a rival coffee shop and misgenders the barista and is chased away with accusations of being a White Man."
"Back when the biggest controversy was Lena Dunham hiring her friends for *Girls*."
"Hannah (Lena) is obsessed with food in Girls and she never really enjoys sex. Sex with men is portrayed as pitiful and unenjoyable, but food— especially sugar— is depicted every episode as something she gorges herself on with abandon in the darkness of night."
"Lived in Brooklyn (greenpoint and ridgewood) during the peak 'Girls' era."
"I feel as this could have been an episode of Girls."
"Started watching hbo girls and it's fun but my only prior exposure to Lena Dunham was this video Was so confused by people on here praising the show since I remember her as the face of 2016 Democrats or whatever, I'm not American"
"She is a literal caricature of lena dunham but skinny and frankly, it rocks. Keep on doing you, kaitlin and soon youll be a staff writer on the lenny letter, too."
"Started watching Girls for the first time"
"maybe HBO Girls was the only example of this working, and nothing else can replicate it without being self-absorbed"
"HBO Girls, her podcast the C word is genuinely good, her writing isnt bad at all."
"It would be like that episode of girls when Ray visits a rival coffee shop and misgenders the barista and is chased away with accusations of being a White Man."
"Hannah (Lena) is obsessed with food in Girls and she never really enjoys sex. Sex with men is portrayed as pitiful and unenjoyable, but food— especially sugar— is depicted every episode as something she gorges herself on with abandon in the darkness of night."
"Lived in Brooklyn (greenpoint and ridgewood) during the peak 'Girls' era."
"I feel as this could have been an episode of Girls."
"I prefer other HBO shows like Girls and The White Lotus which seem a bit less tryhard and have a bit more fidelity to real life."
"I kind of miss saying Girls was good actually being a contrarian opinion but now everyone thinks it again"