Thursday 26 July 2012

HBO's "Girls" Is Your New Favourite Telly Prog

I was about to write "TV Show" and then realised what I was doing and nearly bit off my own hands.

Anyway. LOOK! This telly prog is amazing! AMAZING I SAY!


It's called "Girls" and it's an HBO one so you know there's no spray tans or lazy characterisation about to go in your eyes. It's about some - er - girls. They live in New York and they're very real and very, very funny. It's like Sex and the City if Sex and the City drank cheap lager instead of Cosmopolitans. There are tattoos and Twitter and willies in squirrel jackets and drawn-on eyebrows and it's just really really good.

Plus it's written and produced by women, including Lena Dunham whose life it is sorted of based on, and she also plays the main character so you know when she gets caught in uncompromising positions her pain is all real. And also because she looks real, like a real person that you know. Maybe even yourself.


Also there is an English character called Jess who has totally made me rethink my feelings about hareem pants.

I have no idea how you're going to watch it. You might have to fly to America to do it. Or maybe I'll buy it you for your birthday. But however you do it, you must do it. I have not loved anything this much since Freaks and Geeks, which is my favourite ever telly prog, and I'm thinking rather rashly that I might even love this more. MORE THAN MY FAVOURITE EVER TELLY PROG.

There are so many caps in this post. You know I mean it.

11 comments:

  1. YES! A lovely big dollop of hilarity, everyone must watch this programme right now.

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  2. HOW?! How am I going to see this? Can it be purchased in this country? I've been desperate to see it for FOREVER (or since I first heard about it).

    K x

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  3. ah, I've read so much about how good this is but when will it reach these shores? channel 4 or sky Atlantic maybe?

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  4. Digital spy says it's coming to sky atlantic in September! Woo for everyone with Sky.... Sure there will be region 1 box sets up for grabs soon.....and probs region 2 in time for Christmas, at a guess.

    Px

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  5. Damn you Sky Atlantic, hoovering up all the good US programmes and leaving us Freeview only scumbags to look on in jealousy! In fairness, since I'm only getting round to watching 24 just now, I'll probably watch this in 2030 when we're all live streaming things via our own retinas (or something)

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  6. Heh, glad you like it. I am almost sorry I cottoned onto it so early as I do like discovering a show when there are already a few seasons to plough through.

    (yes I said both show and season, I make radio programmes and in no way do they compare to the wonder that is the last five or so years of American TV shows).

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    1. All credit to you for this one, Hall. If the broadcast media over here was funded and operated like it is in the US we might also be able to make awesome telly progs! And you might love your job and I might have one! Ahhhh, telly progs.

      Px

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    2. The other series I've started watching - Newsroom - makes me want to go and do what I do, but in the US.

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  7. I am literally sitting on a train watching the first episode :) downloaded the entire season :)

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