Linda Stasi
TV REVIEW
"Girls"
Sunday night at 9 on HBO (if you're 26 and live in Brooklyn)
There is something both revolting and compelling about HBO's breakout, cult hit "Girls," which returns for a second season Sunday night.
When it premiered last season, "Girls" grabbed the cover of magazines such as New York — which hailed it as "like nothing else on TV."
And there isn't. And probably with good reason.
"Girls" is sort of like "Sex and the City" — if "Sex and the City" had featured unsuccessful women, having a huge amount of bad and sad sex who live in the city — but not Manhattan.
"Girls'" star/writer/producer, 26-year-old Lena Dunham, a pathological exhibitionist, has given new meaning to "I am woman, hear me roar."
It's not every day in the TV world of anorexic actresses with fake boobs that a woman with giant thighs, a sloppy backside and small breasts is compelled to show it all.
It's a boon for the out-of-shape, and perhaps a giant economic loss for high-end gyms, especially in Brooklyn.
The series, in case you missed it last season, revolves around Hannah (Dunham) and her friends: the beauty, Marnie (Allison Williams); the virginal (not anymore) Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet); and British, bohemian Jessa (Jemima Kirke).
Last season, Hannah had a dead-end relationship with never-working "actor" Adam (Adam Driver), with whom she had painful, afternoon anal sex. It was ugly to watch and uglier to remember that it always took place in his ugly, dirty apartment on sheets that look like they were last changed during the Clinton administration. She should have put paper down before she got down!
"Girls" may not be something you ever want to see if you're not a 20-something-year-old woman living on the edge of disaster at all times. But if it is — and you are, too — you'll be happy to know that it still raw.
This season, Hannah has grown a pair, sort of, and is no longer the sex slave of the slob slacker. In fact, Adam as well as another man are now obsessed with her and can't get enough of her blobby body.
It's the "Nurse Jackie" school of love.
Anyway, Hannah now lives with her gay roommate, while sleeping with one guy and tending to Adam's broken leg in her off hours, which is most of the time.
To that end, Hannah goes to his filthy apartment and holds a kitchen bowl while he pees into it, often missing completely and peeing on the floor. I mean, seriously?
Interestingly, the gorgeous Marnie is the one who is now totally unlucky in love. Sometimes it just doesn't pay to be smart, breathtakingly beautiful, nice and kind. Not when there are blobbies who are willing to take their clothes off in public constantly — even when they aren't in character.
So what's to love? I don't know.
Maybe the grittiness, maybe it's the reality, and maybe the knowledge that I'm not that young or that broke. Anymore.
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