I took up "Girls" after having - lately - watched Lena Dunham's first feature "Tiny Furniture". What I mostly appreciated in the film is how endearingly and for the most in an unaffected manner she downplays questions of privilege, without not-acknowledging them.
I thought that this lacked from the pilot, and consequently accounted for a certain numbness. The numbness unfortunately spilled into the second episode, despite two greatly written one-liners, if not scenes, that wrapped it up succinctly.
Many reviewers and even more critics complained about the narcissism that despite self-mockery is not presented with any human moments that would truly undermine it.
Nothing to worry about, episode three is sturdy, direct, rich in its feature time and most of all ends in a life-affirming manner showing why it is called girls. The anxiety of sexual relationships in our time and the sense of breached hope is counter-attacked with an open sense of hope and - most important - a ringing early womanhood bonding. The two girls in the final scene are terrific, and, hopefully, we are dancing with them!
I thought that this lacked from the pilot, and consequently accounted for a certain numbness. The numbness unfortunately spilled into the second episode, despite two greatly written one-liners, if not scenes, that wrapped it up succinctly.
Many reviewers and even more critics complained about the narcissism that despite self-mockery is not presented with any human moments that would truly undermine it.
Nothing to worry about, episode three is sturdy, direct, rich in its feature time and most of all ends in a life-affirming manner showing why it is called girls. The anxiety of sexual relationships in our time and the sense of breached hope is counter-attacked with an open sense of hope and - most important - a ringing early womanhood bonding. The two girls in the final scene are terrific, and, hopefully, we are dancing with them!
