The premium cable network debuts "Girls" this Sunday at 10:30pm ET and hope to bring in another Sex in the City type success..but will they strike gold twice?
The show follows a group of four girls in their early twenties trying to survive in the big bad city that is-New York City. The main character, Hannah, played by Lena Dunham-who also happens to be the show's executive producer, director and writer, plays the slightly overweight average looking aspiring writer who struggles to pay her rent, is infatuated with a lousy guy and oh yeah is gainfully unemployed. Sounds a lot like Carrie Bradshaw right?
The series was greenlighted after funnyman and "Bridesmaid" filmmaker Judd Apatow took notice of Dunham after she caught attention from her Sundance success "Tiny Furniture" ( another story about a young 20-something subsisting in the cold cruel world that in New York City).
Though critics were quick to compare "Girls" to another crack at a Sex in the City spin-off, Hannah and her friends don't live the glamours and confident lifestyle Carrie and her posse were so fortunate to have. For one, they don't have high-powered jobs that afford them manolos and pricey martinis every night. Instead, Hannah has been cut off financially from her parents and works as an unpaid intern with sky-high school loans.
And secondly, Hannah's friends don't mirror characters like sex-crazed Samantha, Preppy and privileged Charlotte, or a bossy and career obsessed Miranda.
Hannah's Best friend Marnie serves as the responsible one. With good looks, a good job and a boyfriend I'd say she plays the Charlotte type role maybe tied in with a little speck of Miranda.
Hannah's other friend Jessa could turn out to be the Samantha in the group as her background reveals she is an experienced traveler with boyfriends in every country code.
And Shoshanna may have a little Charlotte in her as well as she plays the innocent virgin who is apparently obsessed with Sex in the City ( which I think screams 'TOO CLICHE').
As a girl who lived in NYC in my early, mid and now late twenties ( God I'm getting old) I'am curious and hopeful for this new comedy intended for the TV-watching ladies out there..And I certainly agree with Dunham and her vision of what post-college life can be about, "Life is more complicated in your 20's than it used to be. For a long time, women have talked about wanting and having it all. Now there's a new generation of women saying, 'yeah, we get it, but it's not going to be an easy journey.'"
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