Self centred, psychotic, dark, creepy, and downright nasty, what show could it possibly be? American Horror Story? Boardwalk Empire? Geordie Shore? No it's Girls.
Created, written, directed, starring, and just about everything else, by Lena Dunham, Girls tells the story of four twenty something, well, girls eking out a living in New York. But this is no Sex in the City, well there is sex and they are in the city but that's where the similarities end. Carrie and her hideous crew would run away shrieking in horror from this mob.
Do it all, Lena Dunham stars as central character Hannah a woman so self centred and passive aggressive that she makes Woody Allen look like Mother Teresa. Cut off financially by her parents she mooches off her best friend Marnie. (Alison Williams) Marnie is pretty and appears perfect, but like every one in the show is boarder line psychotic; analysing and over thinking every relationship she has until it can do nothing but crumble. Hannah also has a kind of, sort of, boyfriend, Adam (brilliantly played by Adam Driver) he is so creepy and odd, with mood swings that leave your head spinning, that if he turned out to be a serial killer in season two no one would be that surprised. Hannah's other friends are the uptight virginal Shoshanna (Zozia Mamet) and flighty, free spirited, Brit Jemima (Jessa Johansson) free spirited sells her short, Jemima does things on a whim to the point of insanity.I won't give it away but the season finale underlines that.
But this is the joy of Girls, what you would expect to be some sort of fluffy celebration of life in New York is in fact dark, funny, self centred and quite nasty. I have recoiled in shocked terror more times with Girls than I have with American Horror Story. Then there is Hannah's story book tattoos, they seem to have a life of their own. I thought they were just for the show, but they are (yikes) real. Film 4 recently showed Lena Dunham's feature debut, and Girls dry run, Tiny Furniture; it is well worth catching, but it is so similar to Girls (including most of the cast) that I kept getting the two confused.
Girls is very well acted, excellently written and even in its most preoccupied moments never fails to entertain, plus we had a good, mad and melancholy finale which bodes well for the upcoming season two.
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