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The pilot was met with criticism regarding the all-white main cast in the otherwise culturally diverse setting of New York City.<ref name="HP">{{cite news |title='Girls' Reviews: New HBO Show And Lena Dunham Face Backlash On Racism And More |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/girls-reviews-backlash-hbo-show_n_1429328.html |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=April 16, 2012 |first=Kia |last=Makarechi |access-date=April 18, 2012 |archive-date=April 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419010428/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/girls-reviews-backlash-hbo-show_n_1429328.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Catherine Scott of ''[[The Independent]]'' asked: "What's there to celebrate for feminism when black, Hispanic or Asian women are totally written out of a series that's supposedly set in one of the most diverse cities on earth? But also, what's there to celebrate for feminism when a show depicts four entirely self-interested young women and a lead character having the most depressing, disempowered sexual relationships imaginable?"<ref>{{cite news|last=Scott|first=Catherine|title='Girls' is not diverse, not feminist and not empowering|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/girls-is-not-diverse-not-feminist-and-not-empowering-8224704.html|work=The Independent|access-date=November 11, 2013|location=London|date=October 24, 2012|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116162602/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/girls-not-diverse-not-feminist-and-not-empowering-8224704.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Fox News]]'s Hollie McKay wrote that many white Americans are friends with other people of the same race, and adding a "[[Tokenism|token]]" African-American or Asian-American friend would be "immature" to reality.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/04/18/criticism-hbo-girls-for-being-about-white-girls-money-whining-justified|title=Criticism of HBO's 'Girls' for being about 'white girls, money, whining' justified?|last=McKay|first=Hollie|date=April 18, 2012|access-date= April 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419142927/http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/04/18/criticism-hbo-girls-for-being-about-white-girls-money-whining-justified/|archive-date=April 19, 2012|url-status=live|publisher=[[FoxNews.com]]|quote=Most wealthy white girls in America are surrounded by other wealthy white girls, so that’s who they choose to be friends with. So what? Are we so immature that we need to throw in a token African-American or Asian to make us better about the fact that some white people have zero exposure to diversity?}}</ref> Writing at ''[[The Hairpin]]'', [[Jenna Wortham]] deemed the series' lack of a main black character "alienating, a party of four engineered to appeal to a very specific subset of the television viewing audience, when the show has the potential to be so much bigger than that".<ref>{{cite news |last=Wortham |first=Jenna |author-link=Jenna Wortham |title=Where (My) Girls At? |work=[[The Hairpin]] |date=April 16, 2012 |url=https://www.thehairpin.com/2012/04/where-my-girls-at/ |access-date=3 January 2021}}</ref> Maureen Ryan from ''[[The Huffington Post]]'' attributes the lack of diversity to the industry as a whole, specifying that not only is it "easier (and lazier) to attack a 25-year-old woman who's just starting out than to attack the men twice her age who actually control the industry", but that "of all shows, this is the one that is being attacked for being too white."<ref>{{cite news|publisher=Huffington Post|title='HBO's 'Girls' Isn't Racist, Television Is Racist (And Sexist)|date=April 25, 2012|first=Maureen|last=Ryan III|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/girls-hbo-racist_b_1451931|access-date=March 23, 2015|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116162642/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/girls-hbo-racist_b_1451931|url-status=live}}</ref>
The pilot was met with criticism regarding the all-white main cast in the otherwise culturally diverse setting of New York City.<ref name="HP">{{cite news |title='Girls' Reviews: New HBO Show And Lena Dunham Face Backlash On Racism And More |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/girls-reviews-backlash-hbo-show_n_1429328.html |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=April 16, 2012 |first=Kia |last=Makarechi |access-date=April 18, 2012 |archive-date=April 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419010428/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/girls-reviews-backlash-hbo-show_n_1429328.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Catherine Scott of ''[[The Independent]]'' asked: "What's there to celebrate for feminism when black, Hispanic or Asian women are totally written out of a series that's supposedly set in one of the most diverse cities on earth? But also, what's there to celebrate for feminism when a show depicts four entirely self-interested young women and a lead character having the most depressing, disempowered sexual relationships imaginable?"<ref>{{cite news|last=Scott|first=Catherine|title='Girls' is not diverse, not feminist and not empowering|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/girls-is-not-diverse-not-feminist-and-not-empowering-8224704.html|work=The Independent|access-date=November 11, 2013|location=London|date=October 24, 2012|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116162602/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/girls-not-diverse-not-feminist-and-not-empowering-8224704.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Fox News]]'s Hollie McKay wrote that many white Americans are friends with other people of the same race, and adding a "[[Tokenism|token]]" African-American or Asian-American friend would be "immature" to reality.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/04/18/criticism-hbo-girls-for-being-about-white-girls-money-whining-justified|title=Criticism of HBO's 'Girls' for being about 'white girls, money, whining' justified?|last=McKay|first=Hollie|date=April 18, 2012|access-date= April 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419142927/http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/04/18/criticism-hbo-girls-for-being-about-white-girls-money-whining-justified/|archive-date=April 19, 2012|url-status=live|publisher=[[FoxNews.com]]|quote=Most wealthy white girls in America are surrounded by other wealthy white girls, so that’s who they choose to be friends with. So what? Are we so immature that we need to throw in a token African-American or Asian to make us better about the fact that some white people have zero exposure to diversity?}}</ref> Writing at ''[[The Hairpin]]'', [[Jenna Wortham]] deemed the series' lack of a main black character "alienating, a party of four engineered to appeal to a very specific subset of the television viewing audience, when the show has the potential to be so much bigger than that".<ref>{{cite news |last=Wortham |first=Jenna |author-link=Jenna Wortham |title=Where (My) Girls At? |work=[[The Hairpin]] |date=April 16, 2012 |url=https://www.thehairpin.com/2012/04/where-my-girls-at/ |access-date=3 January 2021}}</ref> Maureen Ryan from ''[[The Huffington Post]]'' attributes the lack of diversity to the industry as a whole, specifying that not only is it "easier (and lazier) to attack a 25-year-old woman who's just starting out than to attack the men twice her age who actually control the industry", but that "of all shows, this is the one that is being attacked for being too white."<ref>{{cite news|publisher=Huffington Post|title='HBO's 'Girls' Isn't Racist, Television Is Racist (And Sexist)|date=April 25, 2012|first=Maureen|last=Ryan III|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/girls-hbo-racist_b_1451931|access-date=March 23, 2015|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116162642/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/girls-hbo-racist_b_1451931|url-status=live}}</ref>


Lesley Arfin, a writer for the show, responded to the criticism, tweeting: "What really bothered me most about ''[[Precious (film)|Precious]]'' was that there was no representation of ME". Arfin later deleted the comment following an uproar.<ref name="Lesley-Arfin-Racist-Tweet">{{cite web |title='Girls' Writer Responds to Critique of 'Girls' with Horrible Joke |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2012/04/girls-writer-responds-critique-girls-horrible-joke/329117/ |work=[[The Atlantic]] |date=April 18, 2012 |first=Elspeth |last=Reeve |access-date=January 14, 2013 |archive-date=December 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121230032415/http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/04/girls-writer-responds-critique-girls-horrible-joke/51314/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Dunham has publicly said, "I really wrote the show from a gut-level place, and each character was a piece of me or based on someone close to me". She adds that she wanted to avoid [[tokenism]] in casting. The experience of a black character would involve a certain specificity, a type she could not speak to.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/2c060de0-993b-11e1-bcc4-123138165f92 |title=Lena Dunham Addresses "Girls" Diversity Criticism & Why I Just Don't Care... &#124; Shadow and Act |publisher=[[IndieWire]] |access-date=January 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013205833/http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/2c060de0-993b-11e1-bcc4-123138165f92 |archive-date=October 13, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Lesley Arfin, a writer for the show, responded to the criticism, tweeting: "What really bothered me most about ''[[Precious (film)|Precious]]'' was that there was no representation of ME". Arfin later deleted the comment following backlash.<ref name="Lesley-Arfin-Racist-Tweet">{{cite web |title='Girls' Writer Responds to Critique of 'Girls' with Horrible Joke |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2012/04/girls-writer-responds-critique-girls-horrible-joke/329117/ |work=[[The Atlantic]] |date=April 18, 2012 |first=Elspeth |last=Reeve |access-date=January 14, 2013 |archive-date=December 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121230032415/http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/04/girls-writer-responds-critique-girls-horrible-joke/51314/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Dunham has publicly said, "I really wrote the show from a gut-level place, and each character was a piece of me or based on someone close to me". She adds that she wanted to avoid [[tokenism]] in casting. The experience of a black character would involve a certain specificity, a type she could not speak to.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/2c060de0-993b-11e1-bcc4-123138165f92 |title=Lena Dunham Addresses "Girls" Diversity Criticism & Why I Just Don't Care... &#124; Shadow and Act |publisher=[[IndieWire]] |access-date=January 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013205833/http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/2c060de0-993b-11e1-bcc4-123138165f92 |archive-date=October 13, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


''[[The New York Times]]'' concluded that the series earned praise "for its sexually frank, wryly satirical look at millennial angst" and criticism "for its lack of diversity while raising "an endless stream of essays and social media posts thanks to its explorations of gender politics and post-collegiate social panic".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/arts/television/girls-season-six.html|title=6 Ways 'Girls' Changed Television. Or Didn't.|work=[[The New York Times]]|url-access=limited|date=February 2, 2017|access-date=September 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411123125/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/arts/television/girls-season-six.html|archive-date=April 11, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> In a review for ''[[Ms. (magazine)|Ms.]]'', Kerensa Cadenas writes, "Despite its lack of a serious class and race consciousness, ''Girls'' does address other feminist issues currently in play, among them body image, abortion, relationships within a social media age, and street harassment."<ref>{{cite web|last=Cadenas|first=Kerensa|title=Feminism and Flawed Women in Lena Dunham's "Girls"|url=http://msmagazine.com/blog/2012/04/14/flawed-women-and-feminism-in-lena-dunhams-girls/|work=Ms. Magazine Blog|date=April 14, 2012 |access-date=November 11, 2013|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116162546/https://msmagazine.com/2012/04/14/flawed-women-and-feminism-in-lena-dunhams-girls/|url-status=live}}</ref> Kim Price of ''The Independent'' predicted that the ''Girls''{{'}} legacy would be the series' "mainstreaming of 'gross-out' femininity" and "intermittent and sometimes cack-handed attempts to comment on contemporary issues such as race relations or lack of opportunities for young people".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Price|first1=Kim|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/girls-may-be-flawed-but-its-feminist-legacy-will-last-a7577211.html|title=Girls may be flawed, but its feminist legacy will last|work=[[The Independent]]|date=February 15, 2017|access-date=September 17, 2023}}</ref>
''[[The New York Times]]'' concluded that the series earned praise "for its sexually frank, wryly satirical look at millennial angst" and criticism "for its lack of diversity while raising "an endless stream of essays and social media posts thanks to its explorations of gender politics and post-collegiate social panic".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/arts/television/girls-season-six.html|title=6 Ways 'Girls' Changed Television. Or Didn't.|work=[[The New York Times]]|url-access=limited|date=February 2, 2017|access-date=September 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411123125/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/arts/television/girls-season-six.html|archive-date=April 11, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> In a review for ''[[Ms. (magazine)|Ms.]]'', Kerensa Cadenas writes, "Despite its lack of a serious class and race consciousness, ''Girls'' does address other feminist issues currently in play, among them body image, abortion, relationships within a social media age, and street harassment."<ref>{{cite web|last=Cadenas|first=Kerensa|title=Feminism and Flawed Women in Lena Dunham's "Girls"|url=http://msmagazine.com/blog/2012/04/14/flawed-women-and-feminism-in-lena-dunhams-girls/|work=Ms. Magazine Blog|date=April 14, 2012 |access-date=November 11, 2013|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116162546/https://msmagazine.com/2012/04/14/flawed-women-and-feminism-in-lena-dunhams-girls/|url-status=live}}</ref> Kim Price of ''The Independent'' predicted that the ''Girls''{{'}} legacy would be the series' "mainstreaming of 'gross-out' femininity" and "intermittent and sometimes cack-handed attempts to comment on contemporary issues such as race relations or lack of opportunities for young people".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Price|first1=Kim|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/girls-may-be-flawed-but-its-feminist-legacy-will-last-a7577211.html|title=Girls may be flawed, but its feminist legacy will last|work=[[The Independent]]|date=February 15, 2017|access-date=September 17, 2023}}</ref>

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Girls
GenreComedy drama
Cringe comedy
Created byLena Dunham
Starring
ComposerMichael Penn
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes62 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Producers
Editors
  • Robert Franzen
  • Catherine Haight
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time26–41 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkHBO
ReleaseApril 15, 2012 (2012-04-15) –
April 16, 2017 (2017-04-16)

Girls is an American comedy-drama television series created by and starring Lena Dunham, executive-produced by Judd Apatow. The series depicts four young women living in New York City. The show's premise was drawn from Dunham's own life, as were major aspects of the main character, including financial isolation from her parents, becoming a writer, and making unfortunate decisions.[1]

The first season of Girls was filmed between April and August 2011. The first three episodes were screened at the 2012 SXSW Festival and the series premiered on HBO on April 15, 2012.[2] The series ran for six seasons until April 16, 2017. There were a total of 62 episodes.[3][4]

The show has received critical praise and awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and the British Academy Television Award for Best International Programme.

Synopsis

Two years after graduating from Oberlin College, aspiring writer Hannah Horvath is shocked when her parents announce they will no longer financially support her life in Brooklyn, New York. Left to her own devices, Hannah navigates her twenties "one mistake at a time."[5] Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver, Alex Karpovsky, and Andrew Rannells co-star as Hannah's circle of friends.

Cast and characters

Promotional poster for the series premiere showing the cast. From left to right: Jemima Kirke (Jessa), Allison Williams (Marnie), Lena Dunham (Hannah), and Zosia Mamet (Shoshanna).
Main article: List of Girls characters
  • Lena Dunham as Hannah Helene Horvath: an aspiring writer living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, originally from East Lansing, Michigan, known for her spunk and bad decisions, who struggles to support herself and find a direction in her life. In season two, she struggles with a relapse of the OCD symptoms she suffered from in her youth. In the final season, she becomes pregnant after a brief fling, and later leaves New York City to take a teaching job upstate and raise her baby.[6]
  • Allison Williams as Marnie Marie Michaels: Hannah's best friend and, at the start of season 1, roommate. Domineering and arguably as self-centred and narcissistic as Hannah, Marnie struggles in her relationships with Charlie and Ray for much of the series, and eventually ends up marrying her musical partner, Desi Harperin. When both her career and her marriage collapse, she eventually moves upstate with Hannah to help raise her baby.[7]
  • Jemima Kirke as Jessa Johansson: One of Hannah's closest friends, Jessa is a global citizen of British origin, and is known for being bohemian, unpredictable, and brash. Jessa navigates many life struggles and poor choices, including a short-lived marriage and a stint in rehab due to heroin and cocaine addiction. When she pursues a relationship with Hannah's ex-boyfriend, Adam, she and Hannah have an explosive falling out. Ultimately, she manages to make her peace with Hannah before she leaves New York.[8]
  • Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna Shapiro: Jessa's naive and innocent American cousin who's a Media, Culture, and Communications major at New York University. She is embarrassed to still be a virgin at the start of the series.[9] The character is fast talking and her lack of enunciation gives her a mumbling, nervous persona. After a brief career stint in Japan, she comes to realize that her friendship with the other three has only ever held her back, and ultimately distances herself from them.[10]
  • Adam Driver as Adam Sackler: an aloof, passionate young man, Adam works as a part-time carpenter and actor. At the start of the series, he is in a casual relationship with Hannah, which becomes serious before ultimately falling apart as he gains success as an actor. He later enters a volatile relationship with Jessa, which is implied to be ongoing as the series ends. Adam is an alcoholic who has been sober for years.[11]
  • Alex Karpovsky as Raymond "Ray" Ploshansky (seasons 2–6; recurring season 1):[12] Originally Charlie's friend, but later a friend of the others, and the group's straight man. Eventually, he has sexual and romantic relationships with both Shoshanna and Marnie. At the start of season 3, he is made manager of a spin-off of Grumpy's, called Ray's.
  • Andrew Rannells as Elijah Krantz (seasons 4–6; recurring seasons 1–3):[13] Hannah's ex-boyfriend from college, who reveals that he is gay. Despite some initial hostility between the pair, they eventually become friends and later roommates on and off. The two grow much closer as roommates.
  • Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Desi Harperin (seasons 4–6; recurring season 3): Adam's co-star in Major Barbara and Marnie's bandmate. They become engaged, and later marry. Marnie eventually ends the relationship with him when she tires of his childishness and self-indulgence. In season 6, it is revealed that Desi is addicted to prescription pain killers after Marnie cheats on Ray with him.
  • Jake Lacy as Fran Parker (season 5; recurring season 4): A colleague of Hannah's whom she dates. In season 5, Fran moves in with Hannah and Elijah, but he and Hannah break up by the end of the season.

Production

Lena Dunham's 2010 second feature, Tiny Furniture—which she wrote, directed and starred in—received positive reviews at festivals as well as awards attention, including Best Narrative Feature at South by Southwest and Best First Screenplay at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards.[14][15] The independent film's success earned her the opportunity to collaborate with Judd Apatow for an HBO pilot.[16] Judd Apatow said he was drawn to Dunham's imagination after watching Tiny Furniture, and added that Girls would provide men with an insight into "realistic females."[1]

Some of the struggles facing Dunham's character Hannah—including being cut off financially from her parents, becoming a writer and making unfortunate decisions—are inspired by Dunham's real-life experiences.[1] The show's look is achieved by furnishings at a number of vintage boutiques in New York, including Brooklyn Flea and Geminola owned by Jemima Kirke's mother.[17]

Dunham said Girls reflects a part of the population not portrayed in the 1998 HBO series Sex and the City. "Gossip Girl was teens duking it out on the Upper East Side and Sex and the City was women who [had] figured out work and friends and now want to nail romance and family life. There was this 'hole-in-between' space that hadn't really been addressed," she said.[1] The pilot intentionally references Sex and the City as producers wanted to make it clear that the driving force behind Girls is that the characters were inspired by the former HBO series and moved to New York to pursue their dreams.[1] Dunham herself says she "revere[s] that show just as much as any girl of her generation".[1]

As executive producer,[18] Dunham and Jennifer Konner were both showrunners of the series while Dunham was the head writer.[19][20] Apatow is also executive producer,[18] under his Apatow Productions label. Dunham wrote or co-wrote all ten episodes of the first season and directed five, including the pilot.[18][21] Season one was filmed between April and August 2011 and consisted of 10 episodes. As did the second season, running on HBO from January 13, 2013, to March 17, 2013.

On April 4, 2013,[citation needed] Christopher Abbott left the series. Dunham announced via Instagram on September 6, 2013, that production for the third season had concluded.[22][23] Season 3, which contained 12 episodes as opposed to the previous 10-episode seasons, ran from January 12, 2014, to March 23, 2014. The fourth season of the series started filming in April 2014.[24] On January 5, 2016, HBO announced that the series' sixth season would be its last, allowing the writers to create a proper finale.[25]

Episodes

Main article: List of Girls episodes
SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast airedNetwork
110April 15, 2012 (2012-04-15)June 17, 2012 (2012-06-17)HBO
210January 13, 2013 (2013-01-13)March 17, 2013 (2013-03-17)
312January 12, 2014 (2014-01-12)March 23, 2014 (2014-03-23)
410January 11, 2015 (2015-01-11)March 22, 2015 (2015-03-22)
510February 21, 2016 (2016-02-21)April 17, 2016 (2016-04-17)
610February 12, 2017 (2017-02-12)April 16, 2017 (2017-04-16)


Reception

Critical response

Season 1

The first season of Girls received universal acclaim from television critics. On review aggregation website Metacritic, the series' first season holds an average of 87 based on 29 reviews.[26] The website also lists the show as the highest-rated fictional series debut of 2012.

James Poniewozik from Time reserved high praise for the series, calling it "raw, audacious, nuanced and richly, often excruciatingly funny".[27] Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter called Girls "one of the most original, spot-on, no-missed-steps series in recent memory". Reviewing the first three episodes at the 2012 SXSW Festival, he said the series conveys "real female friendships, the angst of emerging adulthood, nuanced relationships, sexuality, self-esteem, body image, intimacy in a tech-savvy world that promotes distance, the bloodlust of surviving New York on very little money and the modern parenting of entitled children, among many other things—all laced together with humor and poignancy".[28] The New York Times also applauded the series and said: "Girls may be the millennial generation's rebuttal to Sex and the City, but the first season was at times as cruelly insightful and bleakly funny as Louie on FX or Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO."[29]

Despite many positive reviews, several critics criticized the characters themselves. Gawker's John Cook strongly criticized Girls, saying it was "a television program about the children of wealthy famous people and shitty music and Facebook and how hard it is to know who you are and Thought Catalog and sexually transmitted diseases and the exhaustion of ceaselessly dramatizing your own life while posing as someone who understands the fundamental emptiness and narcissism of that very self-dramatization."[30]

Season 2

The second season of Girls continued to receive critical acclaim. On Metacritic, the second season of the series holds an average of 84 based on 19 reviews.[31] Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter stated that "Girls kicks off its second season even more assured of itself, able to deftly work strands of hard-earned drama into the free-flowing comedic moments of four postcollege girls trying to find their way in life".[32] David Wiegland of the San Francisco Chronicle said that "The entire constellation of impetuous, ambitious, determined and insecure young urbanites in Girls is realigning in the new season, but at no point in the four episodes sent to critics for review do you feel that any of it is artificial".[33] Verne Gay of Newsday said it is "Sharper, smarter, more richly layered, detailed and acted".[34] Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly felt that "As bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as it was in its first season, Girls may now be even spunkier, funnier, and riskier".[35] In reference to the series' growth, Willa Paskin of Salon thought that Girls "has matured by leaps and bounds, comedically and structurally, but it has jettisoned some of its ambiguity, its sweetness, its own affection for its characters. It's more coherent, but it's also safer."[36]

Metacritic ratings per season
Season 1 2 3 4 5 6
Rating 87[26] 84[31] 76[37] 75[38] 73[39] 79[40]

Season 3

The third season of Girls received generally positive reviews. On Metacritic, the third season of the series holds an average of 76 based on 18 reviews.[37] Rotten Tomatoes reports an 89% approval rating from critics, based on 27 reviews with an average score of 7.8/10. The consensus states: "Still rife with shock value, Season 3 of Girls also benefits from an increasingly mature tone."[41]

Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter lauded the first two episodes, and commented: "Going into its third season, Girls is as refreshing and audacious as ever and one of the few half-hour dramedies where you can feel its heart pounding and see its belly ripple with laughter."[42] In addition, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and PopMatters praised the comedic portrayal of its lead female characters.[43][44][45]

Season 4

The fourth season of Girls received generally positive reviews. On Metacritic, the fourth season of the series holds an average of 75 based on 16 reviews.[38] Rotten Tomatoes reports an 83% approval rating from critics, based on 24 reviews with an average score of 7.5/10. The consensus states: "Girls is familiar after four seasons, but its convoluted-yet-comical depiction of young women dealing with the real world still manages to impress."[46]

Season 5

The fifth season of Girls received generally positive reviews. On Metacritic, the fifth season of the series holds an average of 73 based on 13 reviews.[39] Rotten Tomatoes reports an 85% "Certified Fresh" approval rating from critics, based on 20 reviews with an average score of 8.14/10. The consensus states: "Though some characters have devolved into caricatures, watching them struggle in Girls is more fun in season five, with sharper humor and narrative consistency than prior seasons."[47] Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter gave the season a positive review writing: "Girls had only a niche audience. It's possible that being freed from the responsibility of the zeitgeist is what has kept Girls so watchable. The start of the fifth season won't launch an armada of think pieces, but if you still get pleasure from watching these flawed, often awful characters make flawed, often funny choices, Girls is still Girls."[48]

Season 6

The sixth season of Girls received highly positive reviews from critics. On Metacritic, the sixth season of the series holds an average of 79 based on 15 reviews.[40] Rotten Tomatoes reports an 89% approval rating from critics, based on 35 reviews with an average score of 8.01/10. The consensus states, "In its final season, Girls remains uncompromising, intelligent, character-driven, compassionate – and at times consciously aggravating."[49]

The broadcast of the season's third episode "American Bitch" in Australia on showcase had to be edited, due to a scene that breached the maximum MA15+ classification of the broadcaster.[50]

Criticism and impact

The pilot was met with criticism regarding the all-white main cast in the otherwise culturally diverse setting of New York City.[51] Catherine Scott of The Independent asked: "What's there to celebrate for feminism when black, Hispanic or Asian women are totally written out of a series that's supposedly set in one of the most diverse cities on earth? But also, what's there to celebrate for feminism when a show depicts four entirely self-interested young women and a lead character having the most depressing, disempowered sexual relationships imaginable?"[52] Fox News's Hollie McKay wrote that many white Americans are friends with other people of the same race, and adding a "token" African-American or Asian-American friend would be "immature" to reality.[53] Writing at The Hairpin, Jenna Wortham deemed the series' lack of a main black character "alienating, a party of four engineered to appeal to a very specific subset of the television viewing audience, when the show has the potential to be so much bigger than that".[54] Maureen Ryan from The Huffington Post attributes the lack of diversity to the industry as a whole, specifying that not only is it "easier (and lazier) to attack a 25-year-old woman who's just starting out than to attack the men twice her age who actually control the industry", but that "of all shows, this is the one that is being attacked for being too white."[55]

Lesley Arfin, a writer for the show, responded to the criticism, tweeting: "What really bothered me most about Precious was that there was no representation of ME". Arfin later deleted the comment following backlash.[56] Dunham has publicly said, "I really wrote the show from a gut-level place, and each character was a piece of me or based on someone close to me". She adds that she wanted to avoid tokenism in casting. The experience of a black character would involve a certain specificity, a type she could not speak to.[57]

The New York Times concluded that the series earned praise "for its sexually frank, wryly satirical look at millennial angst" and criticism "for its lack of diversity while raising "an endless stream of essays and social media posts thanks to its explorations of gender politics and post-collegiate social panic".[58] In a review for Ms., Kerensa Cadenas writes, "Despite its lack of a serious class and race consciousness, Girls does address other feminist issues currently in play, among them body image, abortion, relationships within a social media age, and street harassment."[59] Kim Price of The Independent predicted that the Girls' legacy would be the series' "mainstreaming of 'gross-out' femininity" and "intermittent and sometimes cack-handed attempts to comment on contemporary issues such as race relations or lack of opportunities for young people".[60]

Accolades

Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Episode
2012 2nd Critics' Choice Television Awards[61] Best Comedy Series Girls Nominated
Best Actress in a Comedy Series Lena Dunham Nominated
28th TCA Awards[62] Outstanding New Program Girls Nominated
Individual Achievement in Comedy Lena Dunham Nominated
64th Primetime Emmy Awards[63] Outstanding Comedy Series Girls Nominated
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Lena Dunham Nominated Episode: "She Did"
Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series Lena Dunham Nominated Episode: "She Did"
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Lena Dunham Nominated Episode: "Pilot"
Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series Jennifer Euston Won[64]
17th Satellite Awards Television Series, Comedy or Musical Girls Nominated
Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical Lena Dunham Nominated
65th Writers Guild of America Awards Comedy Series Series writers Nominated
New Series Series writers Won
Women's Image Network Awards Outstanding Film / Show Written by A Woman Lena Dunham Nominated
Outstanding Film / Show Directed by A Woman Lena Dunham Nominated
Peabody Award Area of Excellence Girls Won[65]
2013 70th Golden Globe Awards Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical Girls Won
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical Lena Dunham Won
65th Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series Lena Dunham Won Episode: "Pilot"
Art Directors Guild Awards Episode of a Half Hour Single-Camera Television Series Judy Becker Won Episode: "Pilot"
British Academy Television Awards International Prize Girls Won
3rd Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Actress in a Comedy Series Lena Dunham Nominated
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Alex Karpovsky Nominated
Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series Patrick Wilson Nominated
65th Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Comedy Series Girls Nominated
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Lena Dunham Nominated Episode: "Bad Friend"
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Adam Driver Nominated Episode: "It's Back"
Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series Lena Dunham Nominated Episode: "On All Fours"
Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series Jennifer Euston Nominated
2014 71st Golden Globe Awards Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical Girls Nominated
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical Lena Dunham Nominated
3rd Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series Andrew Rannells Nominated
66th Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Lena Dunham Nominated Episode: "Beach House"
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Adam Driver Nominated Episode: "Two Plane Rides"
2015 72nd Golden Globe Awards Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical Girls Nominated
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical Lena Dunham Nominated
67th Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Adam Driver Nominated Episode: "Close-up"
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Gaby Hoffmann Nominated Episode: "Home Birth"
4th Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series Becky Ann Baker Nominated
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Adam Driver Nominated
2016 68th Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series[66] Peter Scolari Won Episode: "Good Man"
7th Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Allison Williams Nominated
2017 69th Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series[67] Becky Ann Baker Nominated Episode: "Gummies"
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Riz Ahmed Nominated Episode: "All I Ever Wanted"
Matthew Rhys Nominated Episode: "American Bitch"
Outstanding Music Supervision Manish Raval, Jonathan Leahy and Tom Wolfe Nominated

Broadcast

Girls premiered on April 15, 2012, on HBO in the United States.[68][69] The first three episodes were screened at the 2012 SXSW Festival on March 12.[2]

HBO renewed the series for a second season of ten episodes on April 30, 2012.[18][20][70][71]

On January 7, 2014, the premiere of the third season of Girls was shown at the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City.[72] Models Karlie Kloss, Karen Elson, and Hilary Rhoda; designers Nicole Miller, Cynthia Rowley, and Zac Posen; and editors Anna Wintour, Joanna Coles, and Amy Astley were all in attendance.[72] The after party was at the Allen Room and "hosted by HBO and the Cinema Society".[72]

International

Girls premiered on OSN in the Middle East on September 7, 2012.[73] In Australia, it premiered on Showcase on May 28, 2012.[74] The series began airing on HBO Canada on April 15, 2012. In New Zealand, the SoHo channel premiered Girls in May 2012.[75]

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the series premiered on Sky Atlantic on October 22, 2012.[76] The second season premiered on January 14, 2013,[77] and the third season began airing on January 20, 2014.[78] The fourth season premiered on January 12, 2015.[79]

Home media

Season Episodes release date Rating
Region 1/A Region 2/B[80][81] Region 4/B[82][83] BBFC ACB[84]
Standard releases (DVD and Blu-ray)
Season 1 10 December 11, 2012 February 4, 2013 December 12, 2012 18 MA15+
Season 2 10 August 13, 2013 August 12, 2013 October 23, 2013 18 MA15+
Season 3 12 January 6, 2015 January 12, 2015 December 10, 2014 15 MA15+
Season 4 10 February 16, 2016 February 15, 2016 December 9, 2015 18 MA15+
Season 5 10 January 3, 2017 January 16, 2017 December 7, 2016 18 MA15+
Season 6 10 July 26, 2017 July 24, 2017 July 26, 2017 18 MA15+
Multiple releases (DVD only)[85]
Seasons 1–2 20 No release August 12, 2013 November 20, 2013 18 MA15+
Seasons 1–3 32 No release July 12, 2015 No release 18 —
Seasons 1–4 42 No release February 15, 2016 December 9, 2015 18 MA15+
Seasons 1–5 52 No release No release December 7, 2016 — MA15+
Seasons 1–6 62 No release July 24, 2017 July 26, 2017 18 MA15+

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