I feel like the show “Girls” is getting a lot of unnecessary
hate. First of all let me just say
that this is definitely not a show for men, unless you want to watch the lead
character get a pap smear and talk about her fear of contracting AIDs, then by
all means gentlemen, watch away.
That being said, this show is fucking brilliant and yes, the
show is not “Sex and the City” but you know what that show was bullshit, what
35 year old ladies have fucking bodies like them?! And this is coming from a
true lover of “Sex and the City.”
Seven hundred and fifty a month on the upper east side,
Carrie Bradshaw, in a rent controlled apartment? BULLLLLLLLSHHHHHHHHITTTT.
Yeah, two girls living in Green Point, Brooklyn in a shitty
apartment is way more fucking believable.
With “Girls” this is my life. I live in fucking NYC, I am a
“writer,” this is the shit I deal with, and not going to lie, I am not looking
forward to the call I get from my mother once she finally watches the pilot and
goes, “Woah. Woah. Woah. Is this what your life in NYC is like?”
“….little bit.”
But it’s so true! I have had that conversation about AIDs
(and pregnancy) with my friends on a million different occasions only to get
the response, “Well, Natalie if anyone were to get pregnant… it would be you.”
Granted, maybe I shouldn’t have had unprotected sex those
two times, but whatever, you take Plan B, feel really sick for three days,
straight and you move on with your life.
I feel like people hate the show “Girls” because 1. Either you think that this is not your life at
all as a 20-something girl. Or 2. because this is your life and it’s a little
fucking scary to see on a TV.
You hate the characters because either you are that character
or you know that character. You know that dumb fucking girl. You used to live
with that dumb fucking girl. You have talked shit about that dumb fucking girl
while drunkenly peeing in the bathroom with your friends.
And don’t pretend like you haven’t talked shit about that
girl before. If you have a vagina you are genetically predisposed to talking
shit about other people with vaginas.
Stop looking at the show as a group of four entitled
princesses and embrace it for it’s brutal honesty and how these girls aren’t
fucking perfect.
I do not have a six-pack. I will never be tan. I will never
not have a little bit of cellulite on my ass and to see Lena Dunham basically
naked, and she’s kind of chunky, which is totally fine, it’s amazing to see
someone finally has the balls and the gall, especially a lady, get up there,
and fucking go for it. Naked that is.
Can we just all admit that if you are a 20-something lady in
this day an age, that we do not have our shit together, yet we are grasping on
so tightly to make all this shit make sense? And whether you like it or not, that
is what this show is about, highlighting the absurdity of our young
20-somesthing need to constantly make everything in our lives make sense.
This is going to sound weird, but, I envy you. In my twenties I wanted to be a writer living ina crappy NYC apartmenttalking about booze, and sex and drugs and rock n roll.
ReplyDeleteSince you can relate to the show, your point of view is understandable. Television won't make a show about a 41-year-old dude living in the Atlanta suburbs battling an anxiety disorder while living with a wife and 3 daughters trying to become a successful writer. Because it would be boring as hell. If they did make one, I'd write like you did with this post.
good work
I haven't watched the show, so I can't comment on that. I do like what you have to say about the show. I actually moved to NYC after graduating college to work in publishing. That didn't work out for a myriad of reasons. AKA long story. I always liked Sex and the City because it made me feel better about my life... that even women later in life STILL didn't have it figured out. God knows I didn't. Still don't. And I don't think of any of those women as being particularly overwhelmingly gorgeous. Someone once said that the actress who plays Carrie has a face like a horse. Now I see that every time I look at her. But I have a suggestible mind. I never thought Miranda was strikingly beautiful. Smart and funny, yes. I think Charlotte was probably the prettiest of the bunch. But she always played the "straight man", so her character was usually the least interesting. Hahahahaha. And they all made terrible choices at one time or another. Who can't relate to that? And I may be one of the only people in the world who always hated Big. Loved Aiden. Hated Big.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember exactly how the line goes or what song it is in, but it is from an Indigo Girls song. "The things I hate in you are the things I hate in me." It sounds like your show Girls might be plucking on that string. Sometimes when it hits a little too close to home people love it... or they hate it. You have made me curious. I guess I will have to wait for it on DVD. I hate watching things in the middle.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the show. I love it. I watch each episode twice because I love it that much. I'm 30 and still feel like I'm trying to get my shit together. Now that I think about it, I guess it should prob depress me that appreciate the show so much but whatever. Lena Dunham is awesome and hilarious. I feel like the recent reviews have all been pretty good - I feel like it's catching on. Not sure how it couldn't...
ReplyDeletebest show i have Ever watched!!!! i love that she eats cupcakes in the bath tub and rambles on while her 'boyfriend' is squishing her belly rolls!!! that is a typical saturday at my house!!
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen this yet... but your post made me NEED to. So happy I found this blog... you are a riot!
ReplyDeleteLove Elle xo
i've yet to see this show but i must now.
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I fucking love this show.
ReplyDeleteIt has everything I want in a show about girls. Except maybe the gay stuff, but I'm willing to part with the gay to enjoy a good shitshow that I can relate to.
huh... I don't know what to make of it, but your post actually made me curious about that show. Perhaps I'll check it sometime, pap smears and all.
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