Girls

2012

Seasons & Episodes

  • 6
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  • 1
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7.4| TV-MA| en| More Info
Released: 15 April 2012 Ended
Producted By: HBO
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.hbo.com/girls
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The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.

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Drama, Comedy

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ThiefHott Too much of everything
PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
pizarromelanie I ended up binge watching all six seasons of Girls and at the end of this crazy journey, I'm left with more questions than I've had at any other point during this show. However, before I get to that, I'll say that It was a good show with an interesting dynamic between the characters, which is what kept me watching. From dysfunctional families, intense and unhealthy relationships, narcissistic friendships, and everything in between. The actors were all great at portraying their character's certain quirk and the interactions between each of them felt realistic. Here'sthe spoilers come into play. Although I enjoyed the show for the most part, the ending had me wondering if the writers just gave up. Hannah ends up pregnant with a guy's baby who only appears in two episodes. She ends up telling him she's pregnant, but he doesn't want to be apart of the baby's life. Adam (her on/off ex-boyfriend) ends up with Jessa, but leaves her I guess? He tells Hannah that he wants to raise her baby together, to which she responds by entertaining it for an episode and a half and then randomly decides she doesn't want to and they both leave sad AGAIN (they both obviously still love each other but it's a common theme for them to break up; this time for good). During their rendezvous, heartbroken Jessa has a meltdown and almost sleeps with a complete stranger. Adam then returns to their apartment, reluctantly. Shoshanna ends up engaged to a guy the show didn't bother to introduce at all until the moment Hannah barges in on Shoshanna's engagement party that she wasn't invited to. Ray spends some time with Shoshanna's old boss and they hit it off. Elijah continues to go to auditions for a play. When Hannah decides to move out of the city, Marnie asks to go with her to help her raise the baby. The last episode focuses only on Hannah, the baby, Marnie and Hannah's mother many months after the baby was born. It makes no mention of what became of Adam and Jessa's broken relationship. If they recovered from Adam choosing Hannah and then coming back to Jessa after being rejected. Nothing of Elijah and if he landed the role in the Broadway play. Nothing of Ray and if he is now dating that lady. Nothing about Shoshanna's wedding or marriage. Marnie's future is up in the air as she chose to be stuck with a hormonal Hannah and her baby somewhere in Upstate NY, giving up on her social life and career. The whole ending was just awful. The writers gave up on all their character's storylines and didn't give any of them a justified ending. Even for Hannah, her last scene was her successfully breastfeeding her baby after many failed attempts to get him to latch on. That was it. That was seriously the end of what was a pretty decent show. I felt as though the writers couldn't figure out what else to do with Hannah, so they got her pregnant by some random character and sent her away from almost everyone, didn't want to give Marnie a well-deserved happy ending or any kind of peace of mind, gave up on Shosh and Ray by forcing the viewers to swallow the rushed relationships they found themselves in, and gave up on the storyline of their best and craziest characters, Adam and Jessa, leaving us with a very open ended last scene of them. The whole thing felt very rushed and all over the place. As I sat there wondering what the hell just happened, wanting to scream like Adam, I couldn't help but think to myself that they pulled a typical 'Hannah' move on all of us. If you watched the show, you know what I mean.
tambourinist I quite liked the first season, so I was surprised the following ones were so awful. The show deserves kudos for showing the female body as it is and for the realistic view of sex. Unfortunately, that's not frequently done in this industry.And why I didn't like it? The script is random and full of clichés we had seen in so many series before. You can actually predict what will happen. The show lacks any psychological depth. Hannah has OCD in one episode and then never again. Marnie's ex first gets very rich and then loses everything to the point of selling drugs in the park. Marnie - an independent, self-confident woman at the beginning of the series - turns into somebody completely different, directionless later. I liked the persona of Shoshanna, since she was more probable psychologically than the rest of them. To bad she was the one appearing least in the series.Some acting was bad, most notably that of Allison Williams. Although to be honest, I sometimes had the impression the actors just found it difficult to tell lines which were so out of their characters.Another problem is the veracity of the life portrayed. The series seems to tell us you can live in NYC, wear trendy clothes, party till you drop, do drugs and go to gym several times a week, all that without having a job or any other source of income. Just, you know, money will magically appear every morning on your table. That contrasts with the series' alleged aspirations to show "real life". Lena should have presented this show as one about fashionable, upper middle class twenty-somethings in NYC openly without a pretense to represent the real life of twenty-somethings including money problems.The series is pretentious. I know in your early twenties most people tend to use words like "life", "forever", "love" too much. However, their constant use in dialogues makes it really difficult to watch. There is just too much drama. It's like reading teenager poetry.Finely, I would like to mention here the author's uncritical attitude towards Hannah. It's very visible that Lena identifies with Hannah, who is her alter ego. This is problematic, since Hannah is treated positively in the script even when that's totally unrealistic. Most attractive men get attracted to her. She is constantly told she has a great talent, although, honestly, we don't see much of it. It is showed that people, even random people, instantly like her, although she really gives them no reasons to be friendly to her. It's a kind of a therapeutic series for Lena I would think. But this treatment of Hannah disturbs the realism of the world portrayed and makes the show difficult to watch.3/10
watssup1 I loved the first 3 seasons but the shows kept getting worse and worse. The finale had to be the worst series finale I ever saw. I won't say more since I don't want to spoil it for the people who are about to waste their time watching it. What I will say is there was no closure for me. Will there be a movie like Sex and the City? I won't waste my time or money. I don't care what happens to these characters anymore.
jtaveras64 You can't talk about Girls without mentioning the other 2 shows that involve 4 women who were friends, all in the East Coast, just from different chronological ages … Sex and the City and Golden Girls. Both were phenomenoms in their time that used humor, albeit dark humor, to address their generational themes. And then there's Girls … At first It looked like a wannabe that would fill in the shoes of those classics, and slowly over the years it was clear Girls was nothing like those shows, it actually reveled in its fierce opposition. Like those shows however, they involved an important 5th character … The city, in this case Brooklyn! When Girls debuted 6 years ago Brooklyn was entering its trend of becoming the next Manhattan, the show strongly banked on its surrounding to tell a story. However, the story that Girls told was about young women growing up and how messy it is mixed with all the realistic mistakes we make along the way. The show was raw and brutal and real, which made it relatable and frustrating at times. In the end, what it achieved was what it set out to do, introduce the voice of this generation or the "millennials" generation, it depicted them strongly and showed what it's like living as a girl in Brooklyn New York, how to navigate the professional world, the academic world, friendships, and romantic relationships ..plus lots and lots of naked Hannah lol. It showed us what it's like to mess up and get back up. Culturally the show had many strong stand alone episodes, usually the ones that focus on one specific character, for me the final 2 seasons, 5 and 6 were both a masterpiece. Each depicted the maturity of growing up and broke the mold that that previous 4 seasons had established. Whether you loved it or hated, you can't deny its strong cultural message and its unavoidable link to the other 2 classics it often gets compared to. The thing is, and to put it quite simply, before they were Golden Girls, there was Sex and the City and before Sex and the City there's the initial entry, GIRLS. A story that actually needed to be told and that was hilariously and honestly told, and for that it will always be remembered. In real life there are not always happy endings, friendships don't always survive, relationships don't always make it, things don't always make sense and sometimes, emotional heart warming moments are not what define human interactions. Girls brutally smaked the audience in the face with its brutal honesty and seriously unlikeable characters at times and it did it until the very end. I must say, its final episode was terribly unfulfilling, unsatisfying and incredibly disappointing and uninspiring. But I'll keep in mind as my finale the penultimate episode of the series for the closing shot.To sum GIRLS up in a dialogue between 2 of the ladies this easily summarizes the series brilliantly : "We were all doing our best" …"Our best was awful" "Worst best" Final Grade A