Girls

Heather says to me, “You have a 20 year old daughter, you’d love this show! Well, maybe not love it, but you’d probably find it interesting and most of the girls are naked a lot of the time!” The last one got me interested.

I said to my wife this morning that in Girls(which she has never seen and surly will not  now)  the guy who plays the boss and grabs the office girls ass all the time is played by the guy who was David on “One Day at a Time”, a guy people used to think looked like me.

I never realized my youngest daughter was still home. “You should not be watching that show, you old creep! That show is for teen agers. There needs to be a block on the TV so I can keep you out!”

“I get no respect”- Rodney Dangerfield and Arthur Greenblatt.

This show is a brilliant piece of work, a cross between a sitcom and a soft porn series. The lead character, writer, director spends much of her on screen time naked. There is more sex than I have seen on any main stream comedy. I read about it in Rolling Stone and the Globe and Mail. It seemed like a perfectly reasonable thing to watch. I reawlly enjoy the show, albeit I am a creepy old man.

It comes to us from writer/director/actor Lena Dunham ,Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner. This scripted half-hour series focuses on a group of 20-something women in New York and their adventures in post-collegiate floundering. Two years out of liberal arts school, Hannah (Dunham) believes she has the talent to be a successful writer, and though she has yet to complete her memoir (she has to live it first), her parents cut her off financially without warning. Further complicating things for Hannah is her unrequited passion for eccentric actor Adam, with whom she occasionally has sex (when he can be bothered to respond to her text messages). As the harsh reality of rent and bills looms, Hannah leans on her very-put-together best friend and roommate Marnie, who has a real job at an art gallery and an even realer boyfriend (neither of which she can admit she might not love.) Meanwhile, their gorgeous British friend Jessa, who has travelled to as many different countries as she’s had boyfriends, appears in the city and moves in with Shoshanna, her naïve younger cousin with Sex and the City lifestyle aspirations.

This is a wonderful series I now will watch by myself in the middle of the night. This is much like watching porn, as in by myself in the middle of the night.