VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

cesiraurzi In the 2012 male dominated world of TV shows, Girls has been a welcomed addition. The fact that its main character is also the show's creator, writer and often director, makes it even more welcome. But, as an avid consumer of films and TV, I cannot rate Girls more than 6 (and I am being generous for the previous reasons). The most obvious comparisons to Lena Dunham's "Girls" is Sex & the City, both because of its 4 female leads living in NYC , and because of the emphasis on friendship and relashionsips. However, to me, Girls is more similar to any mumblecore movie (think Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha) or to a certain extent TV shows like Freak and Geeks or Love (unsurprisingly, Judd Apatow is an exec producer). Ordinary stories about ordinary people with ordinary feelings and ordinary ideas who somehow believe to be extraordinary. The show is well crafted, the acting is good, and the characters are believable, but like the whole mumblecore genre, it is too focused on the inner life of middle class, self obsessed, ordinary people and so it risks to be just as boring as the people it tries to portray. I do applaud Lena Dunham's courage in exposing her imperfect naked body and inner psychological issues, especially given the abuse she had to go through (even on this website with some of the reviews gratuitously cruel). However, I doubt that is enough to make good TV for a sustained period of time. Interestingly for a show written by a girl for other girls, the male characters (Adam, Ray) are a lot more interesting and have a lot more life in them than any of the female characters, except for Hannah. While the boys in the show have interests and thoughts,the girls are defined by their relationships with men (or lack thereof). We learn more about the internal life and motivations of a marginal character like Thomas John in his two minute monologue than about Marnie or Jessa during the entire first season. It's true that except for Carrie, the characters in sex & the city were also fairly thin, but that show was a hell of a lot more fun. Finally, since Lena Dunham is now heralded as the bulwark of modern feminism, does it really matter if the writer/director/producer of a show is a woman when the female characters she creates are so thin?

papania First season of this show was amazing, I really liked it. It was interesting, it was funny, it was unusual. The characters were good, the plot was intriguing. But then it ended and I started watching the second season. I wish I wasn't. Let me start with the fact the all main characters in this show (all of those "girls") are assholes. They are just bad people, most of them at least. They don't seem to care about other people. They are a-holes to each other as well half of the time.Hannah is the worst. She is the most self-centered character ever. She doesn't care about anyone but herself. Sometimes she tries to seem like a human being, but usually she just fucks everything up and the show expects us to be compassionate to her. I just don't understand this, does this show want me to become an asshole as well? Is this the point, the idea of the series -- be an asshole to others, don't give a damn about your friends or boyfriends? It's not like Hannah's character evolves, becomes better -- she is a bitch throughout the whole show.And why is every guy obsessed with Hannah? She is not the most attractive girl out there, she is boring, she is unfunny, nothing about her is so magnetic that every man around her should be willing to make out with her. In first season there were 2 guys (attractive, athletic guys) who had sex with her -- okay, I'm fine with that.In second season there's like what, five more of them? Every guy she sees becomes obsessed with Hannah, everyone thinks she's the best, why?? Note that all of them are athletic, handsome men, not chubby boys as herself. Is this Lena Dunham's fantasies? I can go on and on explaining why this show is so bad, but I don't want to. This show isn't worth neither your nor my time.Verdict: 1/10. Too bad, too delusional.

dltorrise Just kidding with the title. I've only seen a little of Sex and the City and the first two seasons of girls, but the comparison is intentionally encouraged by the creator. I agree that characters are more narcissistic, but the show is not nearly as shallow as Sex and the City, from what I've seen. We've come to believe in our society that stark narcissism is the same as happiness and the key to success, when in fact, people who know anything about the actual disorder (not just the common term for obsession with ones own appearance) know that it's a guise for deep pain. Hannah does not seem to ever grow up and seems to be the most narcissistic of all. She only apologizes when she's late (profusely apparently), but otherwise she is highly presumptuous and sometimes treats the men she's with like she doesn't even see them. She manipulates her parents and the people around her, and it is painfully clear that she does this largely because she is bored or to have a story to write. Then there is Marnie, who is a lot more cocky than she puts on, and, even though I don't believe she really loves Alex in a romantic way, keeps him wrapped around her finger because she's afraid of being alone. It's not obvious that she does this on purpose, but I really think she does. I think, additionally, Alex puts Marnie on a pedestal and may not realize she might never really love him because he's too obsessed with how perfect he thinks she is and wants to be good enough for her. They are just the college couple that's too empty hearted without each other to admit they have to move on, just yet. Jessa is mostly just trying to fill the holes from her parents abandoning her. I love her, but she seems like she's so sure about herself at points, and then at other points makes it blatantly clear that she's broken and confused. Shoshanna is the least narcissistic of all and just seems to have a lot of anxiety. She calls out other people on their BS so quickly, it's almost epic, and it's thoroughly unexpected from her. Ray I don't think is developed enough yet for me to fully say. Although I believe he is cocky, I don't quite get him yet. Adam is weird, but his wisdom is under appreciated by everyone around him. Sometimes it seems like, even though he is the creepiest, most socially off character, he sees things more clearly than anyone else. I really like this show. I agree that sometimes it feels like nothing is happening in the show. Side note: one of Hannah's exes actually commented that about her writing, which I feel like pointed to some self awareness and a higher purpose for it. It's so strange because bad stuff is definitely going down and there are a ton of feels, but the characters act like it's so normal almost all of the time. If I experienced half of those issues, I don't know if I could be friends with a person anymore, but they all just stay in these toxic relationships squeezing them for all of their worth, until one of them runs off or sleeps with someone else. None of them can stand living with each other, expect for Shoshanna. And they will still come back to them later. I do think the show relies on sex more than it should for storyline, but it's interesting because, per another review, Sex and the City portrays sex as empowering and fun whereas this show conveys the real dark side it can have for women in their early 20s that is the opposite of that. They all do really have terrible love lives, to the point where it's a little extreme. But I don't find it altogether unrealistic. And I do think it's really funny at points. Later on it just got so depressing that I could hear they were making jokes that would normally be funny to me, but I was too sad to laugh. Altogether, I would recommend it to anyone, because, even if you don't like it, it's a pretty interesting commentary on young people's sexuality. You don't have to agree with what Lena is trying to convey, but it still makes you think.

justchillz I watched the first season and half of the second season. I could not watch Lena's naked body anymore. Her voice and her character are so annoying. I am not surprised she produced the show. No one would ever cast her in a movie/show. Her voice is just too annoying to listen to. She is always whining. She is a spoiled brat, expects everyone to do everything for her, is lazy as heck, too lazy to exercise and be healthy. How on earth would a woman like her ever have friends in the real world? She is disgusting to look at. The second season, I feel like I have to see her naked body through half of every episode, and one minute is more than enough. Her disgusting body makes me want to puke. I am a petite, 32-year-old female. She is overweight, unhealthy and looks disgusting. I am sorry, but there is nothing good about being overweight. No one wants to see her naked fat jiggling all the time. I could not watch anymore. She is disgusting. She is basically advertising America's epidemic of obesity to the world.If she did not produce this show, she would never have been cast as the lead character. It is impossible to like her character or her personality. I loved Sex and the City. This is nothing like that show. Kim Cattrall was not skin and bones either and spent much of show naked, but those scenes were fun. They didn't make a person's stomach turn. She still looked classy and hot. She exuded confidence and was not lazy. Lena is not and will never be Kim Cattrall. She needs to keep her clothes on for that show to be the least bit watchable or go to the gym. If women after giving birth in Hollywood can get rid of the baby weight, there is no reason she cannot apart from her being too lazy!