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From writer/director/actor Lena Dunham and comedy veterans Judd
Apatow and Jenni Konner, this scripted half-hour series focuses
on a group of 20-something women in New York and their adventures
in post-collegiate floundering. Two years out of liberal arts
school, Hannah (Dunham) believes she has the talent to be a
successful writer, and though she has yet to complete her memoir
(she has to live it first), her parents cut her off financially
without warning. Further complicating things for Hannah is her
unrequited passion for eccentric actor Adam, with whom she
occasionally has sex (when he can be bothered to respond to her
text messages). As the harsh reality of rent and bills looms,
Hannah leans on her very-put-together best friend and roommate
Marnie, who has a real job at an art gallery and an even realer
boyfriend (neither of which she can admit she might not love).
Meanwhile, their gorgeous British friend Jessa, who has travelled
to as many different countries as she’s had boyfriends, appears
in the city and moves in with Shoshanna, her naïve younger cousin
with Sex and the City lifestyle aspirations. Over the course of
Season 1’s ten episodes, the four girls try to figure out what
they want – from life, from boys, from themselves and each other.
The answers aren’t always clear or easy, but the search is
profoundly relatable and infinitely amusing.
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Lena Dunham mocks the idea of being a voice to a generation, but
there's no question she's captured something ineffably of the
moment in her sitcom Girls. Dunham writes and directs most
episodes and stars as Hannah, a smart but self-ellating
writer floundering in the urban wilds of New York City. Both an
homage and a counterpoint to Sex in the City, Girls has its own
quartet: Hannah, who's just been financially cut off by her
parents; Marnie (Allison Williams), lovely but uptight, who's
bored by her too devoted boyfriend Charlie (Christopher Abbott);
Jessa (Jemima Kirke), a trans from England who keeps her
true feelings hidden under a cool surface; and Shoshanna (Zosia
Mamet), a hess chatterbox who's ashamed that she's still a
virgin. All of these girls, grappling with adult life, can be
funny, irritating, embarrassing, and richly
sympathetic--sometimes at the same time.
Girls doesn't tackle themes per episode; instead, it's a series
of moments, vividly observed and often joltingly funny social
interaction and sexual relationships (some graphically depicted,
with all the freedom that cable television allows). Dunham
doesn't explain everything all at once, but gives only glimpses
into the characters in each episode. At first, Hannah's
relationship with Adam (Adam Driver) seems horribly one-sided,
but by the end of the 10-episode season, the picture changes
completely (and going back to watch previous episodes with new
eyes is rewarding). While Hannah, Marnie, Jessa, and Shoshanna
may suffer from the neurotic self-absorption of twentysomethings,
Dunham and her cocreators do not; everyone in Girls is
multidimensional, including parents and men on the periphery
(Charlie's friend Ray, played by Alex Karpovsky, grows from some
jerk to one of the more intriguing characters on the show). It's
rare that comedy and compassion are so well-balanced. Like a
micro, Girls focuses on a tiny sliver of the world, but
within that sliver lies abundant life. The Complete First Season
also has an abundance of extra features, including auditions,
deleted scenes, commentary tracks, interviews with the cast, and
a revealing and lively conversation between Dunham and producer
Judd Apatow. --Bret Fetzer
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Set Contains:
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* Inside the Episodes
* A Conversation with the Girls
* A Conversation with Judd Apatow and Lena Dunham
* 5 Audio Commentaries with Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham and more
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