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Comment by Lord Henry Wotton on January 7, 2013 at 2:39pm

I still don't know why we feel obligated to force Lena Dunham to shoe horn in token colored folk into her show. She is writing from what she knows and that is what gives the show its spark. Sure we could remove the authenticity so we can have a black and Asian hang around the group or we could just watch a show that is a slice of her actual life.

All your arguments about newyork being a melting pot and such are idiotic, go to Harlem or BK and see how many black folk you meet that don't have a white friend. People keep to their own sometimes and there is nothing wrong or racist about it.

P.S Girls isn't even that good I don't mind sparing minorities the plight of being on that show, haven't they suffered enough already

Comment by Dr. Detfink on January 7, 2013 at 2:34pm

Lady Stark, I don't think any one is saying Girls is realistic but SOME of the facets of NYC she draws upon have merit. Lena Dunham's POV as a writer is no different than Woody Allen or any NY writer that sticks within the local confines of what they grew up with understanding.

I wouldn't expect a 26 year old girl who admittedly said, she's not knowledgeable or comfortable enough to write other racial characters into the story..to feel comfortable without danger of sending the wrong message. She's VERY much going after a specific subculture of youth. 

Comment by Lady Stark on January 7, 2013 at 1:59pm

@Vyce Victus You put racist in quotes like someone called Girl racist, and no one here did. Calling a show out for its problems relating to race is not the same thing as calling it "racist" and going there is why it makes it so hard for people to have conversations about race and diversity.   Also HBO doesn't get brownie points for being inclusive on other shows and doesn't change the problems that Girls has.

Yours and others whole argument that "it's realistic! " to excuse the lack of diversity and well written minority characters is bullshit. In a TV show we suspend our disbelief about a ton of things, but a poc person being friends with a bunch of rich white girls in fucking New York is apparently too much and would be "disingenuous." Please. 

Comment by DHood90 on January 7, 2013 at 1:56pm

Yeah "Season 2 of Walking Dead is worst piece of television" is too damn hyperbolic to take seriously. Automatically that puts shit like the Star Wars Holiday Special or Home Alone 4 or any crappy Sci-Fi original movie somehow on a higher pedestal. Give me a break.

Comment by kirkman212 on January 7, 2013 at 1:28pm

plus....the dragons in the show officially make Game of Thrones....SKYRIM the television series.....i really enjoyed season 2.

Comment by kirkman212 on January 7, 2013 at 1:25pm

Whoever that actor is that plays king geoffrey in Game of Thrones is so much more SNIVELLING than Joaquin Phoenix in gladiator.....ooooooooooo i just want to kill him myself....he really gets ur blood boiling man. good stuff lmaoooooo.

Comment by Leon on January 7, 2013 at 12:24pm

I would like to add, I clearly haven't watched GIRLS enough to be fully critical of it. I was mostly back up Greg's point of "lived it, don't want to revisit it" and as for the lack of minorities I was playing devil's advocate. That was more speaking to a general television pet peeve. I believe I said something to that affect, but just in case I didn't make myself clear.

Comment by Jayson David Boyd on January 7, 2013 at 5:25am

Living in the San Fernando Valley where the Scrubs/Children's Hospital hospital was built, I feel obligated to let the LEOG know that it was actually torn down a while ago and they're in the process of building apartments on the site where it used to be. I didn't know Children's Hospital was still around, so I just assumed that they had no use for the hospital anymore and that was the driving force behind their decision to tear it down. Thankfully, though, buildings like Dunder Mifflin are still real, and still exist out here.

Comment by Jackeroe on January 7, 2013 at 5:01am

@Girls; People's lives are a lot like sitcoms or a lineair game levels. Just a couple of locations, a supporting cast and a couple of extra's in the background. Once in a while you get a guest star or a cameo and when you're lucky (or unlucky) he / she or it will become a regular on "you" show. Think of the places you are during a week and draw a map/flow chart. It can be very limited. For others, life is more like a procedural. Visit a lot of different places and meet interesting people.

Most friends and acquaintances you make (and lose again) are during your highschool, college years and at work or same interest groups. After that it goes downhill if you're an introvert and don't go out much.

It's very easy to stay mono-racial even if you open to diversty.

Comment by Dr. Detfink on January 7, 2013 at 2:08am

@Vyce Victus EXCELLENT post. That consolidated every thing I wanted to say about the show as it relates to NYC. 

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