I have had it up to here (Imagine me at the 5ft marker of a pool) of the articles and blog posts about new HBO show, "Girls". Across the internet, the creative class is up in arms. I suspect that someone has a Lena Dunham voodou doll and is poking her via the other hole. Their complaints are many, but mostly trite. It doesn’t represent the diversity of New York. The characters are trust funders. It is a not a realistic portrait of young women.
Whatever! How can anyone hitch their hopes and dreams to one show? The cast of the Girls remind me of the band members of The Strokes. They are the scion of rich creatives.
Why the haterade? Is it because Lena is only 25? Is the outrage derivative of the Occupy Wall Street movement? Do people hate rich people so much? I am not implying that Dunham is a one percenter, but there is more class tension today then there was during The Gilded Age, but back then there was no blogs, twitter and other epherma. Does nepotism still bother people? No one gets success by doing it aloneand if you got family that can help, then so be it. Americans are not pioneers and this is not the wild west. Bootstrapping is some antiquated idea that I doubt even Clarence Thomas believes any more.
I am not defending the show, mainly because it so ridiculously mediocre and none of the girls are likeable except for the Asian girl who drinks Vitamin Water and knows Photoshop. She would totally be my friend.
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