Girls

The reviews are ridiculous.

Which brings us to Girls, a series which The Hollywood Reporter calls "the most original, spot-on, no-missed-steps series in recent memory". The Daily Beast calls it "the sort of television show that comes around but once in a decade." I call "just freaking fantastic." What TV fan, regardless of gender, wouldn't want to watch a show that's heralded in such a way? Especially considering, as many critics are pointing out, the series—a glorious, of-the-now portrait of four not-so-fancy girls struggling to come into their own—speaks to a generation of twentysomethings in general, and is as on-the-nose with its depiction of the conflicted young man as it is with the young woman.

Either I'm missing something, or these reviewers are passionately biased towards a depiction of a very narrow sliver of incredibly shallow slice of American life -- the culture of unexamined privilege (borrowed phrase from somewhere). I imagine many of the reviewers come from exactly such a place. It will be interesting to see what happens to Girls, either it will get better and find a big audience, or it will be a show written by and for the reviewing crowd. I suppose it wouldn't be the first time.