Lena Dunham has created a show that makes you say, “Look
at this fucking hipster.” The 25-year-old writer/director/creator and star of
HBO’s ‘Girls’ tries to portray four 20-something women girls living in
New York City trying to make sense of their lives and this crazy world. However
the problems and relationships she creates for these characters is not of that
of a 25-year-old but rather an 18-year-old. From taking bubble baths with your
BFF while eating cupcakes and complaining about boys the one dimensional girl
she’s trying to be makes me laugh. The show starts out with her girl going to
dinner with her parents who abruptly tell her that after years of giving her a
monthly allowance of 1200 dollars they are cutting her off. Completely
blindsided she spits out how they should be so lucky they she didn’t turn out
to be a drug addict, although addiction is treatable and being a spoiled
hipster brat has no recovery program. Furious, the next day at her internship
she asks to be promoted so she can make money, but instead she is let go.
Now what is she going to do? How will she ever find a
job in New York City? Her super smart BFF tells her that she need not degrade
herself and work at McDonald’s or any kind of place of servitude but to ask her
parents to uncut her off for just a little bit longer, until her book of essays
gets published, which I’m sure will only take like another month or two. In
between the money problems, her parents and awesome bestie, her boyfriend – who
isn’t really her boyfriend, just a sex buddy – treats her like shit, and fucks
her like a whore and never texts her back, which she loves complaining about,
but that’s just totally the way he is and she's fine with it.
As a 25-year-old white female living in the city, I
have to say this demographic is not geared towards me in the slightest. I
remember the days with asshole boyfriends, begging my parents for money, and
stomping around irresponsibly until I got my way, but then again high school was
so long ago. This show is nothing but a hipster delusion. Having already been
picked up for a second season, maybe viewership will lose steam or at least
change the setting to a high school. Otherwise, the show ‘Girls’ falls flat on
its face which is so totally embarrassing.
