Oh, Girls

I've blogged about the Lena Dunham show GIRLS a million times over the years here, do a search yourself cuz I'm not fucking doing it for you okay I guess this means I just did. And now it looks like a bunch of people are watching/re-watching it, which shouldn't be a big surprise....certainly not to the level that warrants an article in the New York Times - or, as I call it, "The Times":

“Girls” was released in 2012 amid a flurry of hot takes that argued millennials were the whiniest, laziest generation yet. The show knowingly played into and poked fun at those clichés beginning with its first episode, in which Ms. Dunham’s character, Hannah, is cut off by her parents and then declares that she may be the voice — “or at least a voice” — of her generation. It also, perhaps unwittingly, was a time capsule of what life was like for a privileged slice of New York City in the mid-2010s. The show’s protagonists had just graduated into a recession and were grappling with the rise of apps like Instagram and Tinder, all while going through the typical turmoil of one’s 20s. That was too much verisimilitude for some viewers. But now well into their 30s, some of the millennials rewatching “Girls” are seeing their early adulthood with greater clarity.

Like a lot of people, I hate-watched it....several times

Part of the appeal for me was it took place in my neighborhood, so in many scenes I'd recognize stuff

Of course I'm more wistful for this kind of stuff the longer I'm gone from Brooklyn

It's frustrating to watch because by the end you'll hate pretty much everybody except, ironically, all the boys in the show

It's not hard to imagine a big binging surge; for all my screaming at the show it's wildly rewatchable, and light/easy-breezy to cruise through an episode

Mostly like they say in the article, to me it's a quick shot in a time capsule that I'll always want to revisit.