What We Learned from the First Season of 'Girls'
Girls may be the one show that we, as a collective TV-watching presence, have had the most to say about this season. It's left a mark.
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Details surfaced this week of Hustler's upcoming porn parody of HBO's Girls — titled This Ain't Girls XXX and open to the immediate response of "well, is that really necessary?" — but now Lena Dunham has decided to weigh in and, well, surprisingly enough to her, she's not really ecstatic.
Girls may be the one show that we, as a collective TV-watching presence, have had the most to say about this season. It's left a mark.
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Amid the heaping vat of Girls-related blog outrage stew, show creator/star/writer Lena Dunham has remained relatively mum regarding her show's much criticized/discussed treatment of race.
Lena Dunham's new HBO series Girls has inspired conversations, backlash, hate, and love, but mostly it's inspired a ton of writing.
It's been a pretty dramatic week for HBO's Girls. How do you keep up? Here's a recap of what went down to help you prepare for episode 2.
Sometimes when someone says something racist, it's an accident -- that's what happens in The Human Stain -- but other times, upon closer examination, it becomes clear that the person knew what she was saying because they keep saying the same things.
Lena Dunham's Girls debuted last night to much hype and a not inconsequential aftermath: We're still talking about it, aren't we? Two "girls" of The Atlantic Wire of varying ages watched, and we had feelings.
The mistakes in Girls are only notable because the show gets so much about the city right, at least the version of the city known to a very particular subset of young New Yorkers.
I must first admit to some bias. I approached Girls, HBO's new series about the aimless youngs of Brooklyn, with more than a little snide skepticism.
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