Lena Dunham’s HBO comedy Girls has been picked up for a fifth season ahead of the series’ Season 4 debut this coming Sunday against the Golden Globes. HBO’s president of programming Michael Lombardo made the announcement at Girls‘ fourth season premiere event in New York tonight. The network confirmed the renewal.
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I started watching this series :) I watched 36episodes in 2 days and I like it overall and I'm glad it's renewed! There are some aspects and some characters in it that I hate though, but when I start watching someting I finish it (if I liked the 1st season or the first 5-7episodes :D) Glee I did quit after the first two seasons, so that's a exception :D
ReplyDeletea friend has been telling to watch this show for about a year. I watched the first season i think? or 8 episodes? i found it boring, same as Looking but my friend keeps telling me they are good. He will be happy tho. He loves this show very much.
ReplyDeleteSeason 1 in particular was fantastic. I was actually totally uninterested in watching. I had heard about it for a long time, heard the hype, the negatives and positives, and a lot of my friends, male and female, kept telling me how funny it was. I had bought my sister the first two seasons as a gift because she loved the show so I finally popped season 1 in and I really enjoyed it. I couldn't believe how much I was laughing and cringing. It was laugh-out-loud funny because it was so awkwardly realistic. All of the main characters reminded me distinctly of people I know. I liked the cast and really found it just easy to watch and enjoyable. There was always something to talk about with the series and it's definitely over-the-top at times but the characters are selfish and ridiculous and they all seemed like real people. I found season 2 a lot more unrealistic and a lot less funny. It got darker and into itself a bit too much I think... but I thought season 3 was a big step up and I really like what I've seen of the new season, especially the 2nd episode.
ReplyDeletewasn't its rating TERRIBLE??!!, I think once I read this show's rating was only 500,000 people in total viewers, and that's nothing for any network, not to say for HBO, and nevertheless it's still being renewed, unbelievable!!.
ReplyDeleteI don't get HBO's fascination for this show and why all the critic fawn over it.
ReplyDeleteI believe it's the 3rd lowest HBO show. Each season roughly averages around a 0.4. The only things lower are Looking and The Comeback. However it keeps getting nominated for awards which are working in its favor.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like Girls then check out the ABC Australia and Pivot US co-production 'Please Like Me'. I feel like it's pretty much what HBO's Girls should be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Please_Like_Me
Max down here hit a lot of the points for me.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't at all looking forward to watching Girls, especially after what I'd seen of Lena Dunham on talk shows. I binged the show about two weeks ago. A very good friend of mine (and her now ex-boyfriend) will appear as an extra in the season premiere. So, being as anal as I am, decided to watch every single episode of the series so that I could have full context to appreciate seeing my friend in the background of a scene for a few seconds.
I was hooked barely ten minutes into the first episode. It immediately made a strong impression on me because of how strong of a feministic perspective the show portrays.
You see, I see feminism as simply being proud of your decisions and actions and being able to construct and weigh your options. I think those characters do that in a very coming-of-age manner. They're oddly immature for their age, but they're learning what they want, and are actively trying to achieve that while still holding integrity towards their initial innocence and naive idealism. Isn't that what we're all like during periods of maladjustment? I'm not sure what you're professor finds "un-feminist" about the show. Could you possibly give me an example or two so I can try to contrast what your professor may find wrong with the show?
The first season was mostly great. The basis for each character was well-founded and endearing, allowing each character to be relatable in some way. I know a lot of people who can be reflected from the cast here, and when a cast can remind me of my own peers, I think that's a sign that the writing has excelled at rounding them out as real people. I love characters who feel like people.
I very much enjoyed the humor of the first season. I like dark comedy quite a bit, so it was nice to have an admitted comedy utilizing black comedy without neither being obnoxiously raunchy or delving too far into gallowian depths of humor.
The second season, though, mostly got too dark too soon and was trying too hard to pander to the shows' critics (see: Donald Glover's very brief arc as a black republican). Adam had a good transformation into a likable character, and I liked meeting Laird, who's become an enjoyable recurring character. Shoshanna, however, was butchered, and most of the rest of the cast went from endearing, to annoying. It's understandable, though, how that happened. I don't excuse it, but I get how it happened. It's these characters... They have to walk a tightrope of 'just barely endearing,' and 'intolerable morons who directly cause their own suffering.' It's a similar tightrope that Arrested Development and Community before Girls have walked. It's difficult, and very well be what makes the show exclusive to those who find the cast perfect on the tightrope.
Girls is by no means a show for everyone. It seemed to have learned in the second half of its third season that it's specifically for the people who already enjoy it. The characters got back on track very well in those last six episodes, and a potential genuine story has now been plotted, as well as an opportunity for not only the main character of Hannah, but the show as a whole, to evolve into something wholly different.
That said, even at its low points, I have fun with Girls, and that's what matters to me. I think it was authentic performances and surreal direction. It's the writing that can fault. It's enjoyable, but not fantastic. It's not a show that I'd write home about (were I not already still living at home), and as such, I can completely understand why many people have difficulty with the show. Believe me, I have difficulty with it too. But at the end of the day, it brings a relational smile to my face, burrowing its way into a small hole at the bottom of my heart. I like it.
Ironically, my friend watched the first few episodes of the show shortly after filming her scene, and despised it. She's astounded that I enjoyed it.