Girls

HBO has also launched another sitcom recently called Girls. Created and written by the young actress Lena Dunham the show introduces us to four young twenty something women living in New York City.

The show sometimes seems preposterous. These young women spend and inordinate amount of time talking about sex and drugs. I do not know if this should be taken as realistic or not. The main character is Hannah Horvath played by Dunham herself. An aspiring writer she, in the first episode, is told by her parents that they are going to stop financially supporting her. She interviews for a job and is doing well, but gets too chatty, says something inappropriate and the interview is blown.

She has a relationship with a young man that amounts to just sex. We also have Shoshanna a Jewish girl who is horrified that she has to admit that she is a virgin, Jessa her Russian cousin who finds she is pregnant and has to deal with that, and Marnie played by Brian Williams daughter Allison.

The characters are pretty clearly drawn. Shoshanna is sweet and timid, Jessa is Cosmopolitan, and Marnie may be the most interesting character on the show. She mothers Hanna and has a boyfriend who worships the ground she walks on. She on the other hand is tired or being put a pedestal and finds herself thinking of him in a non sexual way.

Hannah is the main character but one could not call her deep. She is actually pretty unlikable.

This show like VEEP seems to in an attempt to be modern and gain attention has lots of vulgarity. Sex scenes abound. It at least makes a little more sense in this show.

I am not of the target audience for this show. It might be that if too many middle aged men liked it that it was doing something wrong. We are watching it and will continue to but if this is any kind of a reflection on what young twenty something girls are doing I am afraid watching it is like slowing down for a car wreck. We want to see it but we feel bad after we do.