School gave you rules: if you followed the assignment well, you'd get the good grade. Now following the rules isn't enough. Now the rules aren't clear -- or there aren't any.
I am not James Franco, obviously. The only similarity I have to the characters on Girls is I'm a writer/journalist, but I'm not struggling. Your average guy would never want to watch Gossip Girl, but they may just want to tune in to Girls. Why? As simple as it sounds, it's real -- on multiple levels.
This is not a show for the faint of heart. It is a show, though, for those who are ready to address what is very likely happening in their young adult kids' lives, whether they like it or not.
Margaret Wheeler Johnson: "Girls" Episode 8: I really, really did not feel good about this episode. Lori Fradkin: I didn't either -- I feel like every other episode of "Girls" makes me happy.
Adam goes and pulls one of the most inappropriate -- and disgusting -- acts that I have ever seen on TV, which makes me hate him even more than I hated him after he made Hannah cry on your toilet seat.
The episode opens on a shot of Jessa, Hannah, and Marnie on their way to a warehouse party in Bushwick. Jessa is almost carrying off a feathery get-up that's half dying swan, half Tina Turner in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
I'm not sure when my doughy transition from lost college graduate rose and baked into my life as a responsible adult.
This one night in Bushwick, Hannah sees Adam out of his natural habitat (and in a shirt!), Marnie deals with the realization that Charlie has moved on, Jessa looks like David Bowie and Shoshanna accidentally does crack.
Margaret: So, let's address the most pressing question here: Where did Jessa find that outfit? Emma Gray: That outfit was incredible. It would be really bad if she spilled beer on it, though. Sticky bird feathers? Margaret: Ray: "Does everyone in "The Age of Innocence" fan club get one of these or just the gold members?"
From being fiercely loyal to his girlfriend Marnie (Allison Williams) to publicly outing her innermost thoughts via her best friend's diary, Christoph...
These days, gay parents are no novelty: We see them strolling through our neighborhoods and appearing on our TV screen. But still many are left wondering: How will these children of gay parents fare?
It's been a pretty kinky year for TV. Premium cable shows like HBO's "Girls" and "Game of Thrones" have set a high bar for awkward, explicit sex s...
At the benefit they enjoy a performance from Michigan's answer to the Solid Gold Dancers, which in New York could be an ironic burlesque act. Unfortunately Hannah is the only one who thinks so.
It's astonishing that with all the technology available to us a more definitive method for measuring the popularity of TV shows hasn't been established.
Lori Fradkin: This was the first episode that was really all about Hannah. Emma Gray: I thought it was a really nice way of delving into her character a little more -- taking her out of the insanity that is New York City.
Lena Dunham responded to the copious criticisms that her hit HBO dramedy Girls wasn't diverse last week, telling NPR's Fresh Air, “Now we have the o...
Lamenting the prevalence of toystore gender stereotypes, a wise little girl named Riley once said: "Some girls like superheroes, some girls like princ...
The question is not "Is Lena Dunham racist?"; it's "Is Lena Dunham any more racist than the rest of us?"
The women of HBO’s “Girls” (Sundays at 10:30 p.m. on HBO) display varying degrees of sexual prowess -- from two-and-a-half-partner Hannah (Lena ...
I am breathing an even deeper sigh of relief that I have boys of late, but my jig has lost its spring. Because even though I don't have a daughter, I've become hyper-aware that you do.
We at I AM THAT GIRL believe there's a responsibility in the caliber of content that girls and young women consume, because it has such a profound impact on the way they define themselves. I may be a hopeless optimist, a trailblazing passionista on a mission to leave the world better, but I do believe that change is possible, I do believe that media can transform the vicious "mean girl" paradigm and I do believe that I AM THAT GIRL can ignite a movement of confident, thoughtful, compassion and contribution-driven girls leading our country and our world to a better place.
It is no secret that Japanese society is "burdened" by gender-based discrimination and lack of adequate social recognition of girls and women.
So, in one day I heard that Harry's Law -- a show I enjoyed for its wit and intelligence as much as the fact that its lead character was a 63-year-old woman -- was being canceled, and I gave Girls on HBO one more chance. I say "ugh" to both.
With all of the discussion, controversy and varying opinions that HBO's "Girls" (10:30 p.m. ET on) has inspired since it premiered in April, there is ...
Every day, somewhere in the world, a girl child struggles to live. In a world that still prefers the value of a male over a female, the girl child is already a miracle if she exists long enough to be born.
