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'''''Girls''''' is an American [[comedy-drama]] television series created by and starring [[Lena Dunham]], executive-produced by [[Judd Apatow]]. The series depicts four young women
Lena Dunham created ''Girls'' with the intention of offering a more realistic and nuanced portrayal of the lives of young women in their twenties. The show, which premiered on HBO in 2012,<ref name=":0" /> revolves around a group of friends played by Dunham, [[Allison Williams (actress)|Allison Williams]], [[Jemima Kirke]], and [[Zosia Mamet]], navigating the challenges of relationships, work, and self-discovery in [[New York City]]. The first season of ''Girls'' was filmed between April and August 2011. The first three episodes were screened at the 2012 [[South by Southwest|SXSW Festival]] and the series premiered on [[HBO]] on April 15, 2012.<ref name=":0" /> The series ran for six seasons until April 16, 2017. There were a total of 62 episodes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2016/01/06/girls-to-end-after-season-6-hbo-says/78366442/|title=Lena Dunham's 'Girls' renewed for sixth and final season|last=Puente|first=Marie|work=[[USA Today]]|date=January 6, 2016|access-date=January 7, 2016|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116162559/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2016/01/06/girls-to-end-after-season-6-hbo-says/78366442/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/11/hbo-premiere-dates-girls-last-week-tonight-john-oliver-crashing-1201856417/|title=HBO Sets Premiere Dates For 'Girls,' 'Last Week Tonight' & New Comedy 'Crashing|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|first=Erik|last=Pederson|date=November 17, 2016|access-date=November 17, 2016|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116162526/https://deadline.com/2016/11/hbo-premiere-dates-girls-last-week-tonight-john-oliver-crashing-1201856417/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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* [[Becky Ann Baker]] and [[Peter Scolari]] as Hannah's parents, Loreen and Tad Horvath (seasons 1–6)
* [[Christopher Abbott]] as Marnie's ex-boyfriend Charlie Dattolo (seasons 1–2, 5)
* [[Kathryn Hahn]] and [[James LeGros]] as Katherine and Jeff Lavoyt, the parents of two young girls
* [[Chris O'Dowd]] as Thomas-John an affluent [[venture capitalist]]. (seasons 1–2)
*[[Rita Wilson]] as Evie Michaels, Marnie's mother.<ref name="r29">{{cite web |last1=Nicolaou |first1=Elena |title=The 32 Most Memorable Celebrity Cameos On Girls |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/04/149051/girls-guest-stars-celebrity-characters |access-date=10 November 2023}}</ref> (seasons 2–6)
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== Reception ==
=== Critical response ===
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The first season of ''Girls'' received universal acclaim from television critics. On review aggregation website [[Metacritic]], the series' first season holds an average of 87 based on 29 reviews.<ref name="metacritic1">{{cite web |title=TV Show Releases by Score |url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/girls |publisher=Metacritic |access-date=April 4, 2013 |archive-date=November 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116162556/https://www.metacritic.com/tv/girls |url-status=live }}</ref> The website also lists the show as the highest-rated fictional series debut of 2012.
James Poniewozik from ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' reserved high praise for the series, calling it "raw, audacious, nuanced and richly, often excruciatingly funny".<ref name="Time">{{cite magazine |last=Poniewozik |first=James |title=Dead Tree Alert: Brave New Girls |url=http://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/05/dead-tree-alert-brave-new-girls/ |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=May 5, 2012 |date=April 5, 2012 |archive-date=April 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430042051/http://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/05/dead-tree-alert-brave-new-girls/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Tim Goodman of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' called ''Girls'' "one of the most original, spot-on, no-missed-steps series in recent memory". Reviewing the first three episodes at the 2012 SXSW Festival, he said the series conveys "real female friendships, the angst of emerging adulthood, nuanced relationships, sexuality, self-esteem, body image, intimacy in a tech-savvy world that promotes distance, the bloodlust of surviving New York on very little money and the modern parenting of entitled children, among many other things—all laced together with humor and poignancy".<ref>{{cite news|title=Review: 'Girls' Is Brilliant Gem For HBO|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/review-girls-lena-dunham-brilliant-HBO-298379 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=March 11, 2012|first=Tim|last=Goodman|access-date=March 11, 2012}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' also applauded the series and said: "''Girls'' may be the [[millennial generation]]'s rebuttal to ''[[Sex and the City]]'', but the first season was at times as cruelly insightful and bleakly funny as ''[[Louie (
Despite many positive reviews, several critics criticized the characters themselves. [[Gawker]]'s John Cook strongly criticized ''Girls'', saying it was "a television program about the children of wealthy famous people and shitty music and Facebook and how hard it is to know who you are and Thought Catalog and sexually transmitted diseases and the exhaustion of ceaselessly dramatizing your own life while posing as someone who understands the fundamental emptiness and narcissism of that very self-dramatization."<ref>{{cite web |title=Small Girl Big Mouth': A Girls Recap |url=http://gawker.com/5902308/small-girl-big-mouth-a-girls-recap |publisher=[[Gawker]] |date=April 16, 2012 |first=John |last=Cook |access-date=April 18, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420035907/http://gawker.com/5902308/small-girl-big-mouth-a-girls-recap |archive-date=April 20, 2012 }}</ref>
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