Please note that I'm not saying Girls is a great show. I'm saying it's enjoyable, and a perfectly valid artistic expression (see my "Terry Richardson territory" response vis-a-vis art and commerce).

And I thought Tiny Furniture was technically well-made, but awfully characterized film(again, we differ greatly on being able to call a film well-made if the writing isn't there, but I digress). The characters are similar on Girls, yes, but have at least a little bit of forward motion sufficient to set it apart (having Shoshanna and Marnie as main characters so that Lena and Jemima Kirke's characters aren't just having an indifferent-off also helps).