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.
This may be my favourite season to date. The most confident, relaxed and consistently funny. Characters have matured, everything has settled into a groove and just feels less try hard and more au-natural. Really enjoyed it.
As someone who grew to love the show, this season is shaping up to be the one where these girls are finally going to stand by their decisions (whether wrong or right), and be decent human beings (except Shoshanna because she has always been a delight). I'm hopeful that this penultimate season is going to be amazing.
The start of the fifth season won't launch an armada of think pieces, but if you still get pleasure from watching these flawed, often awful characters make flawed, often funny choices, Girls is still Girls.
The friends’ travails are presented in a kinder and gentler manner than we’re used to, and the balance has shifted away from cringey awkwardness and toward something resembling warmth.
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.
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.
Most criticisms of the show are lazy and sexist. Dunham's writing (and the team she employs) remains fascinating, thoughtful and challenging. Would the show have been better off had it known it was going to be four seasons instead of six? It might have made for a simpler, less controversial series -- but who wants that?
Still a good show worth watching.
What I don't like about it is, that, like other shows, it looks like it won't end until every male lead had sex with every female lead, at least almost.
Is this necessary?
Additionally, I don't know what to make of Hannah's father coming out.
I got somewhat suspicious that the showrunners considered the series to be becoming too conventional and that they wanted more hipness, especially if seen alongside a show like "Transparent". But maybe it's just me.
On a side note: I find the male characters far more interesting than the female ones. I don't know why that is. And I'm not ****.
Still, I like to watch them an follow ther stories.
So, what can I say, well done, Lena!
She kind of lost me in episode 7. Too desperate to show nudity. Christ that's enough now. Maybe subtle but really? The privates showing was just stupid. How was she honorimg Kitty who got killed by showing her V.
Can you imagine? You and your husband work at the same place and you tell him you showed your coo to your guys boss. Just dumb. Damn her parents much cringe.
One of the worst shows on television today. The characters on this show reflect the most shallow and disgusting people we have to put up with in society today, the hipster **** bag.
Also I don't support show created and starting a self admitted child sexual predator and it's disgusting to see how many people do.