Hannah is just the new millenium's version of Carrie Bradshaw for a slightly younger audience. She's not quite over represented, but she has not got a job on the show yet, but somehow maintains life by bumming off her friends. She spends her time having sex with a disgusting-dominating-actor-friend-with-benefit, Adam. She goes through some "hard times" with her queer family of girls who, just like her manage to slacker lifestyles in Manhattan (sounds familiar). The show has a great cast of characters. There's Marnie, the uptight one that complains that her boyfriend is too nice, Jessa, the free-spirited one who has no interest in relationships or maintaining a real job and Shoshana, the prissy on out of the bunch who is still a virgin.
It's refreshing to see a show about "women who act like men," as Carrie herself might call it. The men on the show are either sensitive wimps, assholes and even sex objects, something extremely rare in any media. This show is indeed, all about the Girls point of view. Yes, they're still straight, white manhattinites complaining about white people problems and for whom life seems so glamorous, so easy yet we still feel bad for them when they cry. And at the same time, there's little redeemable about them. In the second episode they're talking about an abortion like its cookout. Despite all this I am now addicted to this show and it's certainly nice to watch something about the way girls communicate, bond and have sex that's not written from some man's imagination.
I haven't heard of this show, but surely after reading this I plan on checking it out. For some reason society enjoys hearing about rich people's problems, because it makes them feel a little bit better about their own lives. However I feel like from this description of the show these women are portrayed as weak, especially with the tagline "living life one mistake at a time". This tagline says to me that women are irresponsible always making mistakes, and that their lives are messes. She doesn't have a job and bums off of her friends, I don't find this show empowering to women but in order to fully make a opinion I guess I better check it out myself. I don't find this bumming rich socialite comparable to Sex and The City though. The girls on Sex and The City while being "women who act like men" never had anything handed to them they worked hard to achieve what they have and had nothing handed to them but maybe in forthcoming episodes these "Girls" will be shown doing the same.
ReplyDeleteI think it's cool that shows are playing with gender constructs. But I think It's important to remember the things we are trying to move away from. One of those things being the black, and white line between masculine, and feminine behavior. It's just a thought that rose when I read, "women who act like men".
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