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When a series as fresh, raw and original as Girls comes along, there’s something that kicks in after the original blast has faded: worry.
So many series that aspire to greatness are like all of those bands in the history of music who have exactly one great album in them, and it’s a slow slide to mediocrity after that. Happily, there are no such worries for Girls, which kicks off its second season even more assured of itself, able to deftly work strands of hard-earned drama into the free-flowing comedic moments of four postcollege girls trying to find their way in life.
The first four episodes of season two are so ambitious and self-aware -- charting important new swaths of dramatic territory in the lives of the principals -- that it seems like Lena Dunham had written them while riding the same creative wave that spawned the awe-inspiring first season.
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The real growth for Girls in season two isn’t taking the four young women we met and introducing them to a more integrated and less spoiled New York, it’s the natural progression of acknowledging that your tribe -- the people you associate with most closely -- has its faults. Season two does a fantastic job of skewering hipsters and frauds, many of the things that detractors hated about the show. I don’t think Dunham is listening to feedback and responding as much as she is realizing that her rarefied niche of characters is ripe for targeting.
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Girls remains one of television’s greatest shows, one that seeks to document a specific time and place with specific types, done with unflinching honesty and humor earned from pathos and self-awareness. Here’s to one of television’s bravest, most entertaining lenses on a subculture.