![]() ![]() So when Girls aired its series finale Sunday night, viewers were already skeptical of where else the show could go. These pitfalls, critics said, were reflective of the limits of Dunham's own white feminism. Like Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte, Dunham's foursome was strikingly white and well-off though they lived in New York City, one of the most diverse places in the country, their lives were shockingly devoid of any characters from different backgrounds. Still, Dunham's creation ran up against many of the same problems as Sex and the City. There was a desperate need to update the show for a new generation that sees sexuality as more fluid and different body types as more beautiful - and Girls was it. ![]() While in 1998, the mere fact that women were allowed to talk candidly about pleasure and desire on TV made it groundbreaking, many of its representations of sexuality and identity are now considered misguided or just plain offensive. Girls has been largely received as inarguably feminist television that improved on Sex and the City, which, in 2017, doesn't really hold up. "You're like a Carrie with some Samantha aspects," Shoshanna told Jessa assuredly. It was such an easy one-to-one comparison to make that Dunham wrote a coy reference to the iconic show into her series premiere. The comparison was apt: Both shows broke boundaries around sexuality, showed women concerned about their professional lives as much as their romantic ones and placed female friendships at their zeniths. When Lena Dunham debuted Girls in 2012, critics compared it to Sex and the City, a show that ended eight years before Dunham would arrive on HBO. ![]()
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