If you are an unapologetic capitalist you will suffer less public scrutiny than if you are someone who is trying to do something meaningful with your life. The focus morphs from the meaning of the message to suspicions of opportunistic motives.
The thing which no one seems willing to say about Girls is that it's shit. Yeah, I've read everything else. It's not representative. True. It's about whiny, rich, white girls. True. We all know if it was good, no one would be complaining.
HBO's highly anticipated new show "Girls" may have been a hit with the critics, but not everyone loved Lena Dunham's brand of humor after the series p...
If you want your show to be about such a tiny, niche demographic, go for it. Just don't try and fool everyone and say it's for everyone when it's clearly "for us, by us."
Most times when an actor or actress is talking about an awkward sex scene in one of their latest projects, they can blame the director or the screenwr...
In the opening scene of HBO's new show "Girls," Hannah, a 23-year-old college grad living in New York City, flips out when her parents tell her she's ...
Lena Dunham's new HBO series "Girls" has been relentlessly compared to "Sex and the City," so when we ran into Kim Cattrall last night at the New York...
HBO's hotly anticipated comedy "Girls" premiered last night to 872,000 viewers. The Lena Dunham-created, Judd Apatow-produced series presents itself a...
David Haglund: So, Girls premiered tonight on HBO and instantly became the best show on TV. That's right: Like TV critic Emily Nussbaum, I’m "a gone...
It shouldn't be surprising that Jemima Kirke, the scene-stealing actress from Lena Dunham's indie hit "Tiny Furniture," has gone on to become one of t...
Marlo Thomas (That Girl) begat The Mary Tyler Moore Show which begat Murphy Brown which begat Friends/Ally McBeal which begat Sex & the City which indirectly begat 30 Rock, which begat Girls.
Jenni Konner is positively thrilled to be part of "Girls." The veteran television writer and producer (she got her start on Fox's "Undeclared," and al...
After months of publicity, HBO's new sitcom "Girls," written and directed by and starring Lena Dunham, premiered tonight. Was it everything we were pr...
In honor of my new favorite show, Girls on HBO -- brought to you by an extremely talented team including Lena Dunham, who is a girl, and Judd Apatow, who is not -- here is my loving, cross-gender playlist in support of Girls.
Lena Dunham's "Girls" isn't just a show for young twentysomethings living in New York City; it's a show that offers a little something for everyone. Yes, even men.
Lena Dunham's much-hyped new HBO show Girls, which follows four newly graduated young women as they navigate New York City-and the recession-in privil...
If you're living the life of one of the characters on HBO's upcoming series "Girls" (premieres Sunday, April 15 at 10:30 p.m. ET), it's quite possible...
Looking back at the initial coverage of the series, we realized that some of the praise -- and criticism -- of Sex and the City could easily be mistaken for what's been said in the last two months about Girls.
Young post-college women come to New York City to live the "dream," only to find out it's more of a pizza-and-scuzzy-guy-filled nightmare of long subway rides to low-paying (or no-paying) jobs.
A young woman sleeps in her bed, in the embrace of someone who has a leg draped over her thigh and an arm comfortingly around her middle. When the ala...
It's certainly been a long time since I was this beguiled by a set a characters, but Girls is one of those rare birds. It's a fresh and wonderfully realized show that feels like nothing else on TV.
Faced with the reality of her own mortality, Mrs. Seright decided that she wanted to leave a legacy. Featuring more than 20 women's stories from distress to success, her book, Shattering Barriers, is that legacy.