At a bar last week, I was having a conversation with two acquaintances when we came to the realization that we were each in the midst of a Girls re-watch. A month or so prior, I was added to a group chat titled “Lena Dunham Scholars.” At a dinner the week before, a quick comment on how I was revisiting the show was met with “Of course.” Of course we’re all rewatching Girls right now. Just look at the myriad tweets on your timeline about it, or the clips that appear on your TikTok feed. Maybe they’re recalling the overwhelming cringe of Marnie performing “Stronger” by Kanye West, or a video of a woman saying she’s making a “pilgrimage” to Greenpoint in honor of the show. Everyone is watching Girls.
It’s been just over ten years since the show first aired, and less than six since its end. There is some sense of nostalgia driving this trend, to be sure, but not quite enough to explain it as a whole. Perhaps we’ve gotten ourselves to a safe distance from the constant discourse and sanctimonious blogs the show generated, and now we can adequately see it for what it was: a biting portrayal of New York, womanhood and friendship that we were never supposed to take too seriously.
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 | Apr 26, 2021 "Beautiful again, and interesting, and modern." |
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