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2126853, Well, shit
Posted by Walleye, Wed Feb-06-13 11:37 AM
>People watch it so that they can come on message board
>and blog original thoughts about it. Not so that they
>can enjoy a good story, good characters, etc. Has nothing
>to do with its appeal.

I missed this memo, but it would explain a lot.

It kind of sucks because I've rather enjoyed the show more often than I haven't. And though I think he's inverting cause-and-effect a bit, smuts isn't wrong about the reaction. But it seems more like a lot of jealousy in the form of "why did Lena Dunham get this opportunity?" (as though we were HBO's second choice) becomes "Why did that bitch get this opportunity?"

Also, please don't let the answer be "because of 'Tiny Furniture.'"

Nobody asks for Mindy Kaling's credentials, because they're both obvious and impossible to question. And her show is better.

edit: I should add that those questions are also not necessarily related to whether "Girls" is any good, but rather serve a rough analogy between the two programs. And also that I think you're being slightly uncharitable to the show's creation in the sense that I really don't believe that Lena Dunham has approached any of this with the sort of cynicism that you're pointing toward.