In the pilot episode of HBO’s raunchy new comedy Girls, the main character’s parents announce that they will no longer be giving their 24-year-old daughter an allowance. If the young Hannah, a college graduate, wants to keep living in her fashionable, expensive neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, she’ll need to leave her publishing internship for a paying job.
She whines a lot. She visits a muscular unemployed guy she knows and has sex with him. (“You modern career women, I know what you like,” he informs her as they’re getting started, but the experience is in fact quite awkward.) She drinks opium tea. She and her three girlfriends talk about life and texting and student loans. One of those friends is dating a guy who’s too nice to her. Another has a British accent and a remarkable sense of style.
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