Girls

I recently saw the first episode of a relatively new TV show called Girls. I had nothing better to do, didn't feel like watching Downton Abbey, so inspired by all the praise I've been hearing, and all the Emmy nominations, I decided to give it a shot. 

It's not bad by any means. I could say it seems fantastic considering that I've seen just one episode. But something about it seems gloomy and dark. I'm so not in the right place to watch Girls. I'm a bit younger than the main characters, I'm still in college and I don't really want to think too much about what happens later. Especially not while watching a dark and depressing show. Not to be too dark, it did have some funny parts. I snorted with laughter when Hannah said that there were two angels in the kitchen, one a Victoria's Secret angel and the other a fat baby angel. 

The four mane characters, Hannah, Marnie, Jessa and Shoshanna; are inspired by the characters from Sex and the City. So far, I don't really see it. Girls from Girls seem more realistic, but bare in mind I'm talking based only on the first episode. They seem to deal with bigger problems than Sex and the City. If maybe not bigger, than in a more serious way. They go through life one mistake at a time (the line is part of the tagline, I find it clever and catchy).

Described as the life of a generation of girls that grew up watching Sex and the City. I think I was too young to watch Sex and the City when it first aired, but I did watch the series later and I can't consider myself to have grown up with it. I don't know if it's just me or what, but I thought it was just some cheap fun, fluff. It didn't have any affect on me what so ever. When did we start taking things so seriously? The reason why I watched so many episodes of Sex and the City was to look at some nice clothes, laugh at some outfits that I'd never wear in my right mind, laugh at some jokes and spend thirty minutes not thinking about anything serious. It showed me a life I didn't have and a life I didn't want. I'm writing this because I'm only a little bit younger than the girls from Girls, so it comes to me surprising and unbelievable that anyone could make their decisions based on four silly fictional characters. Is Sex and the City a cult? Does anyone really believe that you can spend almost every day having lunch, breakfast and drinks with your friends, that you can write one lousy column in a shitty paper and still afford all those designer clothes? If you do, you have a problem. And that problem isn't Sex and the City.

Everyone with half of a brain should know that you can't live your life the way those girls did. Everyone knows that shows like How I met your Mother or Friends aren't real because no one can lead a lifestyle like that. But I don't see anyone making shows about the life of a generation that grew up watching Friends and now thinks that the can live their entire lives just sitting in a coffee shop drinking the entire day without a worry in their mind and still afford the fabulous apartments they live in. I'm just wondering how many future doctors will be extremely depressed because medicine isn't exactly what we see on House or Grey's Anatomy. Come on, people, common sense isn't that difficult to find.

Sex and the City was a phenomenon mainly because it showed a generation of emancipated women that didn't need, but wanted a man; and because it handled a topic that wasn't actually addressed before: what does it mean to be a single woman in her thirties. And all that in a slightly ditsy, humoristic manner. 

Girls isn't a bad show, it really isn't. At least not from what I've seen so far. I'm just more caught up in people who take all of this shit so seriously and try to find out whether they're a Samantha or a Carrie, a Charlotte or a Miranda. Or, whatever. If you get around to it, watch an episode or two of Girls. You might really enjoy it and you could be in a better place than I am for a show like this.