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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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
90
SalonWilla PaskinApr 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Girls is smart, bracing, funny, accurately absurd, confessional yet self-aware, but it is also undeniably about four white chicks with, relatively speaking, no worries in the world. Read full review
90
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyApr 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Lena Dunham's much anticipated comedy about four single women in New York is worth all the fuss, even though it invites comparisons to Carrie Bradshaw and friends, and even though it incites a lot of dreary debate about the demise of feminism. Read full review
100
TimeJames PoniewozikApr 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's raw, audacious, nuanced and richly, often excruciatingly funny. Read full review
83
Uncle BarkyEd BarkApr 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's a distinctive, signature series from a decidedly singular voice. Read full review
80
Denver PostJoanne OstrowApr 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Dunham succeeds in making viewers uncomfortable while proferring a new (sharp, slightly bitter) flavor of introspective female comedy. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandApr 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Girls represents an exciting moment in television history because, like a handful of other shows (MTV's "Awkward," most notably) it not only makes great use of the medium but has the creative guts to realign it for a new century and a new generation. Read full review
100
HitfixAlan SepinwallApr 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: It definitely has a voice, and it's a great one: witty and wise and warm and not exactly like anything you've heard before. Read full review
100
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanApr 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: 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 show that comes to us with its voice, characters and ideas fully formed. Read full review
91
NewsdayVerne GayApr 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: Extremely funny and extremely raunchy (consider yourself warned), but Dunham's a major talent. Read full review
80
VarietyBrian LowryApr 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: If "Tiny Furniture" filmmaker Lena Dunham's series is in places too mannered, it's also fresh, honest and raw. Read full review
100
Entertainment WeeklyKen TuckerApr 6, 2012
Season 1 Review: It possesses a different rhythm from any other show on TV. [13 Apr 2012, p.73]
100
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanApr 6, 2012
Season 1 Review: The new HBO series from Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture) is one of the most original, spot-on, no-missed-steps series in recent memory. Read full review
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