I don't watch a lot of television. I think I'm pretty hard to please and due to a storm of reality TV airheads, I'm praying that in 2025, human beings will still have a couple of useful brain cells to, you know, work the world. The only real shows I ever got into were Freaks and Geeks ( way before it's time, a young James Franco playing an 1980's high school bad boy) and most recently, HBO's recent success 'Girls'.
Created by Lena Dunham ( who plays Hannah ^ top photo), Girls is based on the lives of four twenty-somethings struggling yet embracing the harsh realities of a New York City,exploring real-life experiences. Unpaid internships that are supposed to 'benefit' you, yet destroy you financially. Falling for assholes, attending 'secret' warehouse parties in the gritty outer suburbs and the lying phone call of telling your parents 'you're okay and money is fine' when really your eating 11p noodles that you can buy in bulk at Chinese wholesale stores and your rent is a month behind. Being a Postgraduate and a Writer (not linking either) I cannot express the true co-incidental production of this show and how easily related it goes with not just my personal life, but probably the majority of it's audience.
Lena Dunham has completely changed the sugarcoated reality of being a young twenty-something amongst the harsh clouds of the current economy, sea of the 'cliche' opposite sex and the honest and brutal storm of adolescence and pushing away that sheltered childhood. This has notably been compared to renown HBO drama-comedy 'Sex and The City' following the memoirs of writer Carrie Bradshaw in the NYC 90's with her 3 best friends approaching their forties and swimming the channel of marriage, families, work and relationships. However, although there are striking similarities, Girls should not be lazily compared to a younger SATC. Each show holds a unique and strong flow and I don't think anything on the level of Girls has been attempted before. Dunham is able to communicate and shock with her special and humorous manner and at only 26 years old ( I'm 23 as I write this, I better hurry up and create something pretty soon), Lena has transformed the face of the current young female generation.
Dunham also wrote and directed a feature film in 2010 'Tiny Furniture' which received positive and influential praise linking to a focus on Girls, which aired this year and a Season 2 is approaching in January.
If you have not watched this yet, I beg you. Girls need to watch this to feel like they are not completely alone and all those 'things' that you think just happen to you, happen to everyone else. Guys need to watch this to understand us. It's not Gossip-girl material it's gritty, sexual, reassuring and one of the most significant productions to ever grace the screen.
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