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A lot of great shows have threads on Teamliquid, but I don't think there's one on HBO's Girls. There are several comparisons - female Entourage, millennial Sex and the City. One of those things has a slim change to appeal to people on this site, the other...I doubt has any pull.
Season 2 is starting on January 13th, 2013 and I'd just like to recommend the show to anyone who has 30 minutes on a Sunday night. Explained in the simplest way, Girls tells the story of four twenty-somethings living in Brooklyn. Like Curb Your Enthusiasm and Larry David, this show has a very clear voice - it's the story of writer (and Hannah actress) Lena Dunham.
This tone is what makes Girls such a stand out show. In the wrong hands, this could have been some pure hipster garbage, with irony wafting through the TV screen. Frankly, when you first turn on the show, there's this impulse to hate it - all these characters are so despicable and they're all so self-obsessed But somehow, it the "plight" of white, urban, educated, privileged women and treats it with an earnest sincerity that you can't help but identify with. I'm not white nor a woman nor do I live in New York but Girls makes sense to me!
The themes that Girls explores are ones a lot of us can identify with - the struggles of an imbalanced friendship, unhealthy love, stunted development and being a teenager even when you're 25. And it treats these things so well, with this wonderfully irreverent humor (let me stress that this show is funny,) but also this intense realness.
Characters:
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Hannah Horvath: Overweight, Writer, Romantic. Main charcter of the show, has no money. Romantically involved with Adam
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Marnie Michaels: Annoyingly attractive, uptight, conflicted. Second billing, Hannah's roommate and best friend.
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Jessa Johansson: British, free spirit, deviant. New arrival to New York, Shoshanna's cousin.
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Shoshanna Shapiro: Plucky, innocent, virgin. Sleeps with stuffed animals, Jessa's cousin.
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Adam Sackler: Sex Fiend, hates shirts, artistic. Lovable rake, enjoys masturbating.
This is not the type of show to sell out its characters for a plot move (Thanks Homeland.) The depth of their personalities is surprising - well, except for Shoshanna....Anyways, if any of you get a chance, you should catch the previous 10 episodes of season 1 and find time for a great cable Dramedy.
  
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just from your description jessa immediately annoys me, everyone else I can see getting behind
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I found myself enjoying it too much after one episode, had to stop
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On December 30 2012 21:05 UniversalSnip wrote:
just from your description jessa immediately annoys me, everyone else I can see getting behind
Jessa is pretty obnoxious. But things took an interesting turn in the season 1 finale. Good show.
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I just want to point out that this show has some of the best scenes I've ever seen. I mean, some of the ways that they treat the interactions are so painfully honest that you can't help but laugh. Ultimately, the charm of the show is the same thing that initially makes you dislike it, it's the utter self-awareness of itself.
These characters are vain and silly. But they never pretend to be anything but that. Vain and silly, self-absorbed and self-important. But aren't we all? I've tried to have stupid adult dinner parties, I've had stupid fights with friends about who's the better friend, I've never danced my feelings to "Dancing On My Own" with my bestie but I'd like to (best scene of the show, end of episode 3.)
HEY WATCH THE SHOW.
EDIT: Subject verb agreement.
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Thanks for bringing this up. Now I got something to watch other than suits, modern family, the new nornal, or animal practixe haha
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Season 2 premier was today!
+ Show Spoiler +I love it! I am not a particularly big Community fan or a Childish Gambino fan, but I do respect Donald Glover's talent; it's good to see him on a show like this. Even better, I think, to see a black person in New York at all. The men in Hannah's life make a really nice texture for the show: Black reads Ayn Rand Sandy, best-character-on-the-show Adam and hilarious supergay Elijah.
I did not like Shoshanna's character in the previous season, though when she was on crack, it was great. But she was really good this episode. The awkwardness reminds me of......female me? Her speech is so enthusiastically modern and manic, she's really the most earnest character on Girls.
Marnie has always been enjoyable but I like where her characters going. I think watching Allison Williams drink a cup of wine in 10 seconds is my new favorite thing to watch on television, and while I'm sure her tits are great, I do like that she won't show them on HBO. The talk she had with her mom was hilarious. So was the awkward sex. Lost soul story arcs can get a bit annoying but the start has been just fine.
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I don't care if no one but me is watching this, but I'm going to plug the shit out of this until I die....or until it gets bad.
Season 2 has been painfully funny. It's unfortunate that two nice recurring characters seem done with the show: Thomas John and Sandy. And the Jessa and Thomas John break up scene was a bit sterotypical sitcom scene, even with her breaking his "humie" award - an award he won for "being a fuckin' humanitarian." Nevertheless, this show continues to deliver more than any other 30 minute show on television - except for Park and Recreation.
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Thanks for the recommendation.
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Wow they look so freaky in that poster, not the aesthetic of the show at all.
Anyway just caught up with the past month of episodes, and what a set of episodes it was starting with that superb dinner party (what an amazing sequence, it was hilarious and so perfectly awful--Lena played that scene soooo well with her total straight-faced irresponsible not-even-a-hint of acknowledging any guilt while still making it clear she knew full well how culpable she was) and Jessa split up episode.
I feel like it's so hitting it's stride with really getting to know the characters as people--the way we get to know them makes them feel real. The way we sort of didn't understand why they were quite making the decisions they were making, the fronts they were putting on, etc.; well we didn't know them well yet. Now as we slowly get more things revealed so we can know them better, what they've done (like in season one) and do now starts to feel more understandable. It's phenomenal storytelling and character development. There are no one note characters here (especially not anymore), and this 2nd season has been especially good at building Shoshanna, Marnie and Jessa into people I feel like I could know.
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So, these last two episodes of Girls have been pushed this show to the next level. "On All Fours" blew my socks off. It was horrible to watch, just a brutal 30 minutes of watching people commit horrible self sabotage. Girls is not the show I thought it would be - kind of a moderno-Brooklyn-young version of the Golden Girls or something. Witty kids, surrounded by a living city, making quips and complaining about culture.
But it's not that show. It's much closer to something like Louie. It's an artistic show. It's funny. Watch this show guys, the season finale was tonight. It's been the best show on TV for weeks now.
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I just watched the first episode. I enjoyed it way more than I should've LOL.
Will probably check out the rest of the season later, after midterms. Thanks for the recommendation! haha
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someone told me about this show a couple of days ago and i'm about 6 ep's in, suprisingly (very suprising) i'm enjoying it quite a bit
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I'm enjoying this show a hell of a lot more, than i'd have expected. Superb writing.
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Bumping the thread that introduced me to this show a year ago, it was hard finding it because it was in the Blogs section.
Season 3 started recently, and wow, this show just feels honest. The characters and things they do feel real, as opposed to almost any other show you watch. They have believable motivations, even the ridiculous stuff seems like, well, not too far fetched.
Also, can this thread be moved to Media & Entertainment Section? I'm not sure that existed when it was posted.
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