Is “Girls” a good show?

I lived it. It’s a bit raw at time and Dunham’s character can be a bit much but that’s the point. It!s involving.

It’s definitely worth it if you’re a millennial and/or attracted to Adam Driver.

Great show. What streaming channels u have? What have you watched? Try:

- insecure -Enlightened -Olive Kitteridge -Sharp Objects -Boardwalk Empire -Peacemaker

Great first season. The quality drops big time from the beginning of season 2 on.

R3 - I have tried most of those shows, but only really liked Enlightened. I have Netflix, prime, Max, and apple

I'm not being a smart ass but have you read a book lately? When I get bored with tv I get a book from the thrift store and just devour it at the local park. I'm into my Stephen King era rn and I'm so into it.

It became very popular to hate watch it by season 2 - the backlash to it started early and was undeserved. Sure the characters were annoying, self-centered and whiny but wasn't that true of most millenial "creatives" in Brooklyn in that period?

The melancholy series finale was excellent.

Ugly nepo babies pretending to be broke. Lens Dunham nude. Hard pass.

Really loved it. It’s about my specific generation and very similar social groups to the ones I was in, and it rang very accurate. Lena Dunham, whatever her personality, is a fantastic writer and the true modern analog to Woody Allen at his peak. Her movies are underrated

R8 None of the characters ever “pretended to be broke” - the show made it clear all the characters come from some degree of money and mooch off their parents, especially Hannah. Also Lena’s parents were art world types. Not sure how that gets you a TV industry job besides the parents having the resources to allow their kid to pursue art. People just say “nepo baby” when they mean “grew up upper middle class/rich” now.

I’m no fan of Lens but the show is well done and entertaining. It’s definitely self-aware and acts as an indictment of millennial selfishness.

Is it funny or just "that's clever"?

I really loved it. Even the so so episodes and storylines were never boring (I mean Patti LuPone played Patti LuPone). Lens and Adam Driver were great together and I especially liked Zosia Mamet. Definitely worth a look.

It’s quite funny, R11. The men in the cast are just as good as the women. Adam Driver’s character is nutty weird but funny. But a real secret weapon was Alex Karpovsky as Ray. And then Andrew Rannells joins in on the fun. The episode focusing on his character trying out for a Broadway version of “White Men Can’t Jump” is excellent.

Now I want to watch it again.

It's shit.

I enjoyed the SNL parody.

I didn't watch it because there were too many jezebel and buzzfeed think-pieces about it.

It sucked me in but for the most part an unattractive cast.

The Beach House is the best episode of the series. Hilarious throughout and it is not in season 1

I love it. The humour is really original

I loved Jemima Kirk’s but not enough to keep watching beyond season 1.

*Kirke damn autocorrect

Still find it funny that the breakout star of a show called GIRLS was a man.

I loved it.

The Hannah/Adam relationship was far more believable than any of the relationships on SATC.

Marnie was insufferable. So we’re most of the characters, but she was loathe some.

[quote] I didn't watch it because there were too many jezebel and buzzfeed think-pieces about it.

By season 2 of Girls, Lena Dunham had been mentioned in the New York Times more than Kate Winslet. The nepo baby famewhoring was abominable. The whole affair would have been much more bearable with Lena casting actual actresses or comics.

None of the 4 leads were particularly good actresses, nor do they have star power, more importantly. Even the two good looking ones weren’t telegenic.

If you can tolerate an unfit, lunatic black hole at the center of it, go ahead, OP.

Lens "a bit much"?

People who can stand her are just lady-ham masochists.

I was surprised to genuinely liked it. I expected to hate the series but quickly came to enjoy it and recommend it (with some cautions) to some people whose taste I know. I'm not of Dunham's generation or sex or likely audience but above all it felt fresh and different and had the power to startle and make me burst out laughing at the oddest things (something that can't be said for many TV series.) Dunhamś character and all the characters are completely self-absorbed and usually in need of a good smack, but really most of them are simply much exaggerated takes of aspects of of people we know well, or ourselves. I will say that while Dunham comes off as rather humorless and unaware in interviews, the series could not have been written without a lot of humor and self-awareness and the ability to laugh at oneself.

The plots, the characters, the implausibility, the ridiculousness, and the supreme annoyingness are all present -- as they are supposed to be. If Seinfeld was a series about petty, selfish people, then Girls was a series about petty, selfish, awful people with almost no redeeming features that was desperate to make you hate every character and still see something there at have a laugh at their foibles.

The series is horribly uneven, some episodes will leave wondering why you watched it at all, but there are many good surprises such as you won't find elsewhere and change your tune, just for a moment, or make you laugh out loud and be surprised that you did.

[Quote] Marnie was insufferable. So we’re most of the characters, but she was loathe some.

Oh dear oh dear.

Well, you can see this.

Honestly OP…I watched it in real time and I’m not sure. It was funny at times but it was unclear to me if her intent was completely to mock the characters or if she was in some way defending them. If a satire, it was okay, but if we were supposed to genuinely sympathize with the dumbass characters, not so much.

I have watched the entire series twice, and a few random episodes more than twice.

I forgot Rannells was on Girls!

I forgot Rannells was on Corey Stoll!!!!

R31 IMO it is akin to a Woody Allen film or a Phillip Roth novel, but made by a woman of a younger generation. Girls is a funny depiction of a specific (I would say culturally Jewish) kind of self loathing narcissism. It’s not a full on condemnation of the characters, but an uncomfortable warts and all portrayal.

The only series I have ever watched the entirety of but couldn’t watch the final episode. I just could not with Hannah as a mom