Comments on: HBO’s Girls: A Sharply Written Show for Any Gender

By: Diego

Diego — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:59:04 +0000

Really? this is like a 20 something girl looks like in New York? I live in Argentina so I don’t have any idea but….hell… they are just too dramatic on the very insignificant things they have to deal with. Yes, your boyfriend is a dick, GET OVER IT! You don’t have money, get a job! You don’t like the job that you got? Deal with it! That’s what you are being paid for!
I just don’t know. Doesn’t feel real to me. Is it really that easy to get laid in the U.S?
I agree with Paul that Shoshanna and the Brit girl are one-dimensional characters where you can’t believe they are real life people.
Hannah is like a 12 year old girl, complaining all the time, mistreating her parents (which, by the way, are the only characters I really care about in the show) on a 24 year old “woman” body.
Hanna’s roommate is the only one that makes sense to me.
After saying all that, I somehow feel compelled to finish the first season (3 more to go). It’s a strange feeling.

Regards!
ps: I have a rule of thumb, if the protagonists (in this case, every girl in the show except Hannah) are good-looking people, the show usually sucks in the end (Terra Nova, V, etc). If not, we get The Wire, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, etc…

By: kayla

kayla — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:02:53 +0000

I can get on board with this article. I can relate to the feeling of getting shocked into growing up and only having yourself and the support of your friends to hold you up. I can also agree that they should’ve done away with Adam. Any self respecting girl would have ditched him ages ago. At the same time, what show doesn’t have those characters that get under your skin? I still have a few more episodes I need to watch in the season. Between school and my job at Dish, I never have time to keep up with a series each week and I’m about to lose my free trial of HBO too! Luckily, I just upgraded my whole home DVR to the Hopper so I just recorded the episodes. Since there is so much recording space, I won’t have to worry about deleting them. I hope the episodes I have yet to see don’t let me down!

By: keo

keo — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:56:37 +0000

Misfits sucks balls. The first season was very solid, -the very anti christian christmas episode. I coudn’t stand that Irish kid.

Girls on the other hand is pure garbage, the only reason i watch it is because those 2 girls are hella hot. I can’t stand Hannah, she has got to be the most despicable character I have ever seen on TV. Fucking fat jobless leeching bum. I’m the type of person that feels dirty after watching porn and unloading my future kids. Happens everytime, and I feel fucking gross after watching one episode of this show. It’s so gross.

I do recommend guys my age (I’m 27) watching this show, so that you can recognize the behaivioral patterns of the women you need to stay the fuck away from. The girls on this show, are the shit of the world. Despicable in every way.

By: Sean Fast

Sean Fast — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:45:40 +0000

Glad you promoted the show. I loved it since the first episode, and have a lot of trouble convincing my guy friends to give it a chance.

By: Billiam

Billiam — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:25:47 +0000

I find watching this show is more effort than enjoyment. I have to struggle to empathize with the characters, and I feel that if I were a girl I’d get it, but I’m not so I don’t.

By: Laura Frances

Laura Frances — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:11:21 +0000

Misfits is mind-blowing. I love that show. I’m glad you discovered Girls Paul Tassi! If you have time, check out this little web series by Dunham, starring Dunham. I found it really funny. It’s called Tight Shots:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_7wDVPsuIY

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:25:57 +0000

Paul Tassi – Modern girl making it in the big city… set to the backdrop of the cut-throat world of journalism.

I’m just messing around. Sounds like an interesting show. HBO always knows how to do it. Looking for something new as I’m finishing up with Misfits (which is simply mind-blowing). Have a great weekend!

By: the_dude_abides

the_dude_abides — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:49:45 +0000

I did the same thing paul. Discovered HBOGO and checked this out. its a very good and well written show. I have my issues with somethings IE adam was a little too much of dick. I mean i rewatched the first few episodes after watching the whole season and there are parts where it was a little hard to swallow the whole thing that he was really just a nice guy all a long. Even still i enjoy the show a lot and it does have a louie like quality to it. I read somewhere that the show is following a trend in that rather the characters evolve the viewer is exposed to different parts of them. I think the second season will be of Louie quality.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:46:13 +0000

Really? I can barely stand this show.. Listening to them all arguing …and even talking most of the time is like nails on chalkboards.. I don’t like the emotional roller coaster that girls like this seem to force upon themselves; the cat fighting, complaining, analyzing and over analyzing.. these are the types of girls I just try to stay away from. This show is real, very very real. But it’s about girls and girl dramas.

Sure, they’re cool girls, but they seem so immature. It just drives me crazy because all their big drama fights and things are mostly so trivial and stupid. Get over it, and get to work…

Passive, southern girl myself, perhaps that’s why I find it hard to relate?

I have watched most of this series and my favorite character by far is Adam, which everyone seems to hate.. so.

By: Michael O.

Michael O. — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:35:31 +0000

Dunham made Tiny Furniture at the same as Louie came out, and it’s basically Girls in miniature. Good movie and good shows both, but I think Dunham can stand alone on this one.

Adam became my favorite character by the end of the serious, though I didn’t like him much at first. I think that’s a brilliant trick if you can pull it off, gradually making a detestable character sympathetic as more of him is revealed.