Review of Girls

Girls (2012–2017)
This show is a total knock off of sex and the city
23 January 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Before you say "no it's not!" Just hear me out. First of all I'd say this is what SATC would be like when Carrie and Co first moved to NYC before they got good jobs, before they got good clothes and shoes and before they could afford to live in Manhattan. Which by the way - working the jobs they DO work at in this show with supposedly no help from mommy and daddy - no WAYYY the can afford Brooklyn but I digress.

Hannah is Carrie without the love of fashion or shoes but she is a writer but she has Samantha's libido. Adam is her "Mr. Big". Marnie is a hybrid of Miranda and Charlotte - hello works in an art gallery?! Jessa has that blunt personality trait of Samantha. Now I can only imagine that Lena Dunham was watching Mean girls when she created the character of Shoshanna because that girl is the incarnate of Gretchen Weiner - go watch the movie and tell me I'm wrong. The way she talks the cadence of her voice. Seriously - Candace Bushnell and Tina Fey could sue. It's paramount to plagiarism.

Furthermore I don't know how this is classified a comedy - I haven't laughed once. And of course you can't discuss this show without the nudity aspect -I'm sorry but Lena Dunham needs to keep her clothes on and as vapid and shallow as twenty something hipster guys are - they aren't going to want the likes of Hannah Horvath just isn't going to happen and neither is the likes of a 42- yr old doctor. I saw that episode and thought "oh please". So it's not even close to "real life" either. Sorry.
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