I went I to this show totally excited. There's just so much body positivity and showing that people other than the ultra glam and young can and do have positive sexual experiences. I thought for sure all of the negative reviews were from misogynistic men. After all I had seen so many reviews specifically targeting Lena Dunham's non-hollywood body. Unfortunately it was her character that turned me off of the show.
It has absolutely nothing to do with her body, mind you. Those reviews that specifically target her body are still 100% body-shaming jerks. But GEEZ is the main character awful. She's the most self-centered, mean, obnoxious person. I used to be an atypical 20-something woman and I never ever treated people the way she does.
The rest of the main characters have their own flaws, but NOTHING near as bad as her. At least in the episodes I was able to get through before giving up. And their flaws all seem to be reasonable considering their backstories.
The British chick Jessa who's a partier and disappears from people's lives because that's basically how her parents were makes sense. I actually had a friend with a similar story that acted much like this character did. The naive young lady just coming into her sexuality later than her friends is plenty of people I've known. Marnie's inability to figure out how she feels about her boyfriend was me for awhile.
But for the life of me I can't figure out why Hannah is so incredibly awful to people and thinks she's so very put up on. She just ruins what otherwise could have been a solid show about young adults finding their way in life while normalizing real world people.
It has absolutely nothing to do with her body, mind you. Those reviews that specifically target her body are still 100% body-shaming jerks. But GEEZ is the main character awful. She's the most self-centered, mean, obnoxious person. I used to be an atypical 20-something woman and I never ever treated people the way she does.
The rest of the main characters have their own flaws, but NOTHING near as bad as her. At least in the episodes I was able to get through before giving up. And their flaws all seem to be reasonable considering their backstories.
The British chick Jessa who's a partier and disappears from people's lives because that's basically how her parents were makes sense. I actually had a friend with a similar story that acted much like this character did. The naive young lady just coming into her sexuality later than her friends is plenty of people I've known. Marnie's inability to figure out how she feels about her boyfriend was me for awhile.
But for the life of me I can't figure out why Hannah is so incredibly awful to people and thinks she's so very put up on. She just ruins what otherwise could have been a solid show about young adults finding their way in life while normalizing real world people.