Girls
HBO | Release Date: April 15, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
80
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 113 Critic Reviews
Positive:
98
Mixed:
15
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Los Angeles Daily NewsRob LowmanFeb 13, 2017
Season 6 Review: Girls is essentially a hipster soap opera--occasionally clever or smart--but not as revealing as it led you to believe. This year it might take the step that has been promised since its first season, but maybe not. Read full review
60
ColliderAllison KeeneFeb 8, 2017
Season 6 Review: Girls wastes too much of its time in this new season falling back into old patterns instead of embracing its most effective kinds of storylines. Read full review
60
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoFeb 18, 2016
Season 5 Review: The premiere of Girls is perfectly enjoyable without feeling as current or well-written as those first two seasons. The ensemble has always been excellent and they do their best, but my issue with Girls remains tonal. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian LowryJan 8, 2015
Season 4 Review: Girls continues to operate in a very limited range, both benefiting from, and in some ways handcuffed by, its generational specificity. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian LowryJan 8, 2014
Season 3 Review: Good actors pop in and out of their lives (including Richard E. Grant as another rehab patient, and Bob Balaban as a shrink), but Dunham’s narrow field of vision doesn’t accommodate much beyond her core. That’s fine, in most respects, except that as played, it tends to sap the reality from situations. Read full review
60
Washington PostHank StueverJan 11, 2013
Season 2 Review: The first four episodes of this new season have the same raw and gritty-cool feel as the first season's (it takes no time at all for Dunham to bare her now-famously doughy naked body in a sex scene), but the show has become significantly more predictable. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJan 11, 2013
Season 2 Review: Short scenes [are] designed to suggest we just walked in on random real people. It's a raw look that is, nonetheless, a look. It also, inevitably, says scripted TV drama. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyApr 13, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's so intensely focused on these specific girls and their "Sex and the City" dream, though, that at times it may not resonate as much with a larger audience. Read full review
50
TimeDaniel D'AddarioFeb 18, 2016
Season 5 Review: Season 5 of Girls resolves the angsty cloud that has long swirled around the series by making it, more than ever, something generic.... But outside of [Hannah 's] home life, Girls now has the airlessness of a laugh-tracked sitcom. Read full review
50
SalonSonia SaraiyaJan 8, 2015
Season 4 Review: A fourth season that, while competent, also feels somewhat beside the point.... This season the characters are making a concerted effort to change, but the show itself: not so much. Read full review
50
Washington PostHank StueverJan 8, 2015
Season 4 Review: For the most part, Girls is still wickedly written and, for some viewers, the best hate-watch around. Yet it too easily runs on fumes from a hipster era (circa 2012) that is already ossifying. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJan 7, 2015
Season 4 Review: With talents like Dunham (who created the show, writes, directs and stars) and executive producer Judd Apatow behind the scenes, you’d expect at least more chuckles than you get from this sad return. Read full review
50
RedEyeCurt WagnerApr 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: These gals are at times so self-absorbed it's difficult to feel much for them when things don't go their way. Read full review
40
SalonSonia SaraiyaFeb 22, 2016
Season 5 Review: Girls itself now knows how disposable its own plotting is, and is struggling to discover what all this ceaseless, fruitless discovery of self actually means. What remains are snapshots of a show that doesn’t quite know why it matters. Read full review
40
Washington PostHank StueverJan 10, 2014
Season 3 Review: It’s a lot less fun now; when watching these new episodes, I found it impossible to complete any sentence along the lines of “I hope [blank] happens to [blank],” not counting my hope that poor Adam (Hannah’s increasingly complex boyfriend, played by Adam Driver, who now provides the show’s only gravitational pull) will come to his senses and flee. Read full review
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