I've only seen the first season of Girls (and maybe a couple of episodes from S2), and I couldn't stand it. I watched only because I had heard that it was a "twenty-something version of Sex and the City," and I love me some SATC. When I was open about my animosity for the show, friends of mine assured me "it gets better." Lies. The series is about a group of over-privileged white girls in New York, and that is pretty much where the Sex and the City similarities end. Oh, excuse me, Hanna (Dunham) is also a writer. Anyway, where SATC is filled with characters both intriguing and relatable, the Girls are simply vapid veiled in pretentiousness. I am a twenty-something liberal living in NYC, so this show should have been right up my alley, but it just made me want to punch the screen. I don't know how I made it through as much of the show as I did.
I think what Lena did to her sister is wrong, and she should be properly labeled as a sex offender; not looked up to.
I will say, on an unrelated note, that this board is really gruesome. I'm not at all a fan of Lena or her work, but the graphic torture scenes described by people on this board are alarming...
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