Being from a small town, and now attending school in an even smaller
town, I dream of the future when I live in a major metropolitan city. I used to
watch shows like Sex and the City (ok I still do), and movies like Confessions of a Shopaholic (is it a
coincidence her name is Rebecca? Yes spelled different but still that’s my
name.) But last Sunday was the premier of HBO's Girls, and I couldn’t have been more excited!
I feel
like all of the characters are very relatable, well minus the parents being
famous, and easy to like. I mean we all have that friend that is the free
spirit, the one that is mom, the one that wants to be like by everyone, and the
one trying to find herself. Lena Dunham’s humor is very blunt and dry, but
she’s brilliant! Her character is an overweight 20-something whose life is
falling apart. She just lost her internship, her parents have announced they
are no longer helping her financially, she has a terrible relationship (if it
can even be called that) with a judgmental guy, and she overall just can not
catch a break.
But after reading on an article dubbed “In
Defense of Girls: Why We Think Haters Need to Step Back” written by Annie
Georgia Greenberg for Refinery29 I noticed that some critics aren’t taking too
well to this new show. Ms. Greenberg is totally in support of this new hit, but
she is criticizing others that think it is unrealistic and now small town girls
will not want to move to the “big, scary city.” That may be true and those
critics are entitled to their own opinion, but not everyone thinks that way. To
be honest, I respect this show and the characters for being real; not stick
thin women who shop all day and live in the ultra-posh Upper East Side on the
Wonderland many of us call Manhattan.
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