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Critic Reviews
Apr 16, 2012
Season 1 Review:
It's a raw, ironic, occasionally touching comedy of post-millennial manners. [23 Apr 2012, p.37]
Apr 6, 2012
Season 1 Review:
It possesses a different rhythm from any other show on TV. [13 Apr 2012, p.73]
Apr 6, 2016
Season 5 Review:
Ultimately, while Season 5’s opening episodes benefit greatly from Dunham’s decision to unite the ladies, Girls‘ greatest joy remains its Ginsu-like sharpness for skewering its twentysomethings’ misguided sense of self-importance and self-entitlement. Well, that and its guffaw-inducing dialogue.
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Feb 19, 2016
Season 5 Review:
It’s [Shoshanna's] and Jessa’s plot lines--and a surprisingly tender one involving the blossoming romance between Elijah (Andrew Rannells) and an Anderson Cooper-like newsman played by guest star Corey Stoll in a multi-episode arc--that feel like the season’s new emotional center.... It’s still pretty great to watch them flail--in all their messy, misguided, ridiculous glory--towards something like it [womanhood].
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Jan 7, 2015
Season 4 Review:
Girls is already one of the most "New York" shows on television, with its brilliant skewering of aspiring, overentitled creative-class types like Lena Dunham's Hannah.... This season also has astute things to say about the heartbreak, and the relief, of getting older and reexamining your dreams.
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Jan 3, 2013
Season 2 Review:
As bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as it was in its first season, Girls may now be even spunkier, funnier, and riskier. [11 Jan 2013, p.80]
The Daily BeastFeb 13, 2017
Jan 10, 2014
Season 3 Review:
Now, three seasons in, Dunham and her team are better at doing what they’ve been trying to do all along: create a string of lovely character vignettes, with a deliberate disinterest in plot and a fascination with a certain zeitgeist. This is specific enough that it has its disadvantages, but now that the characters have been around for two seasons, it’s become easier to understand their different versions of cluelessness.
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Feb 10, 2017
Season 6 Review:
In its final stretch of episodes, Girls still contains all the perfect details that have defined its world in the past--Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) expounding on the limitations of Paul Krugman, Ray reading Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life. But its ambitions, like Hannah’s, seem to have benefited from realizing that the best stories have a deeper purpose than simple entertainment.
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UPROXXFeb 9, 2017
Season 6 Review:
At this point, if you’re in on Girls, you’re going to watch through the end, and I expect plenty of weirdness, awkwardness, and sadness before we get to the conclusion. It’s definitely time for this story to end, but there can be some interesting tales before we get there.
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Feb 19, 2016
Season 5 Review:
The new season pushes Adam Driver’s Adam and Jemima Kirke’s Jessa into a fraught relationship from which no good (for them) can come, but is interesting to watch--such a clash of acting styles those two project! And Girls continues its valiant attempt to integrate Zosia Mamet’s Shoshanna into the group in a believable manner. It’s doing this through off-beat ways that may actually end up working.
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Feb 10, 2016
Season 5 Review:
Reliably entertaining and wise new season.... What’s readily apparent on Girls nowadays is that the show doesn’t even need Hannah front and center to achieve narrative momentum. Dunham and her writers and cast have done a terrific job of creating an array of characters fully capable of carrying their own solo storylines.
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The Daily BeastJan 10, 2014
Season 3 Review:
The Season 3 premiere of Girls is good. It isn’t brilliant and life-changing nor is it terrible trash. It’s not as profound as we force Girls to be, nor is it meaningless. It’s just good. Sometimes it’s very good. It’s certainly enjoyable. But it’s neither the best nor the worst thing ever.
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Jan 10, 2014
Season 3 Review:
Along with the story line insights, there is a feeling of control overarching the early episodes, a narrative fluidity replacing the spikier, and quickly tiresome, need to shock. Oh, Hannah's still naked and body fluids anchor several conversations, but Girls seems to be maturing as a creative enterprise just as its characters are maturing as people.
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The Daily BeastMay 30, 2013
Uncle BarkyJan 9, 2015
Season 4 Review:
Girls still delivers other memorable moments, though. And not all of them are gag-inducing. Dunham has written some terrific scenes for herself, and she also rises to the occasion of acting them out. Even so, how many times can this show basically go back to square one?
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Jan 6, 2015
Season 4 Review:
What started as a refreshingly female-centric yet awkward comedy has grown into a strange and oddly mature study of how Hannah and her ilk come to terms with the labor that goes into art after years of fantasizing about the façades and lifestyles of bohemian artists.
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Jan 14, 2013
Season 2 Review:
Girls can still be Girls. [21 Jan 2013]
Feb 10, 2017
Season 6 Review:
The first three episodes of season six, all written by Dunham, suggest that Girls will go out as it came in: lancing its characters’ pretensions and delusions while demanding that we care about them as people, and working in a storytelling mode that’s lightly serialized with stand-alone plotlines and structural stunts mixed in.
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Feb 10, 2017Feb 17, 2016
Season 5 Review:
Even though it all feels better balanced than a few of the past seasons, Hannah’s downward spiral into destruction in the opening hours of season 5 is the purest example of Girls‘ repetition fitting its stuck-in-a-rut proto-millennial themes in a not-so-fortunate way.
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Feb 3, 2014
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