5/14/2023 0 Comments Good girls season finale![]() Too much was put on Dunham’s shoulders – she didn’t need to be the voice of a generation, Girls didn’t need to document the experience of every woman in her twenties, and it certainly didn’t need to be perfect. The writing is acerbic, delicately detailed, cruel, shrill, sometimes absurd but mostly like listening back to the banal, desperate conversations I might have with my own friends. I was sick of seeing such unpleasant women in ludicrous scenarios be foul to each other, week after week. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps it was the hype, the heralding of Lena Dunham as our feminist saviour, the sudden backlash pointing out how problematic (a word lazily used when one cannot be bothered pointing out why exactly an opinion or cultural artefact doesn’t hold up perfectly to scrutiny – but still the only word that fits) Girls can be.
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