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80Dunham manages to ties the grimaces and grins together with a comedic sensibility that allows you to see these characters as they are with all their irritating and contradictory behavior, but still root for them as they feel their way into adulthood.
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83Many young women, if they're being honest, will see themselves here. And many parents will see their daughters.
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88Its distinctive voice makes it feel fresh and original, and the poignant comedy gets better with every episode.
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80Dunham succeeds in making viewers uncomfortable while proferring a new (sharp, slightly bitter) flavor of introspective female comedy.
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100It possesses a different rhythm from any other show on TV. [13 Apr 2012, p.73]
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100It definitely has a voice, and it's a great one: witty and wise and warm and not exactly like anything you've heard before.
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80There is a cool cleverness to the show that is both attractive and off-putting; the characters are flawed and hyper-aware of their flaws, the stories so bent on covering every angle of self-examination that there is no real role for the viewer to play.
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60It'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.
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100From the moment I saw the pilot of Girls, I was a goner, a convert.
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75If you are female and under the age of 28, you may really relate to these women and their struggles. If you're over that age, you should hang in until episode three when the series takes off in a great way.
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91Extremely funny and extremely raunchy (consider yourself warned), but Dunham's a major talent.
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100It's a raw, ironic, occasionally touching comedy of post-millennial manners. [23 Apr 2012, p.37]
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80[Dunham has] crafted an honest and at least occasionally hilarious show that might even live up to its hype.
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70Girls grew on me. As annoying as the characters can be, they also evince recognizable traits in absurdly realistic situations.
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80With its precisely drawn characters, winning performances, and frank, well-observed humor, Girls is a knockout.
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50These gals are at times so self-absorbed it's difficult to feel much for them when things don't go their way.
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90Girls 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.
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100Girls 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.
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80Girls was great last year. But this season it just got a little bit better.
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Apr 12, 201275Though Lena Dunham's characters are far more sympathetic, she takes pains to debase them, and makes them both funnier and more recognizably human in the process.
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100The new HBO series from Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture) is one of the most original, spot-on, no-missed-steps series in recent memory.
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100It'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.
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90Lena 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.
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100It's raw, audacious, nuanced and richly, often excruciatingly funny.
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100Lena Dunham's brilliantly raw and raunchy Girls [is] a true breakthrough series.
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83It's a distinctive, signature series from a decidedly singular voice.
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100Dunham's simply writing what she knows, and incredibly well.
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80If "Tiny Furniture" filmmaker Lena Dunham's series is in places too mannered, it's also fresh, honest and raw.
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90As television, Girls is disturbing, sharply honed and even wickedly funny.
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May 7, 201280Four episodes in, and Girls is still packing tons of jaw-dropping, head-shaking, eyebrow-raising scenes into 30 minutes each Sunday night.