Judd Apatow’s HBO Series “Girls” Trailer
She doesn’t drink Cosmos, and she definitely doesn’t wear Manolos. Nevertheless, Lena Dunham’s Hannah, leading New York City lady in Judd Apatow’s new HBO comedy series, Girls, claims to be “the voice of her generation,” which puts her in the category of a millennial-aged Carrie Bradshaw. There’s just one tiny difference. She’s broke.
Twenty-four-year-old Hannah’s parents are giving her one last “push.” Translation: they’re cutting her off. Based on the quirky protagonist’s calculations, this means she has exactly three and a half days left in the Big Apple, seven if she skips lunch. Her boss fires her for not being “hungry” enough. Hannah asks for clarification of this; does he means hungry for food or for work?
To top it off, her roommates call her selfish for not keeping her pre-school friends, and her soon-to-be ex-boyfriend treats her like “monkey meat.” And as she tells her OB-GYN, who laments her condition with the “you-could-not-pay-me-to-be-24” spiel, Hannah is not being paid.
Thus sets the parameters for Apatow’s latest project and TV’s newest expo about life as a single girl in New York City. While the highbrow banter and witty exchanges that made Sex and the City an iconic television favorite are absent, there’s no lack of punchlines in the Dunham directed, produced, and written film.
“I can change the world one extremely dumb girl at a time,” a man tells Hannah. “And when I look at you, I see a pupil.”
“Thank you,” she responds.
It’s this fresh, in-your-face type of comedy Dunham sought. Inspired by Sex and the City, she strove not to mimic it.
“There is no Sex and the City revenge plot,” she told reporters Friday at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, The Hollywood Reporter notes. “I revere that show just as much as any girl of my generation.”
Dunham instead aims Girls at documenting a different demographic, one a little bit greener, a little bit less figured out, and a little bit more realistic.
“Gossip Girl was teens duking it out on the Upper East Side and Sex and the City was women who figured out work and friends and now want to nail family life. There was this whole in between space that hadn’t really been addressed.”
From the looks of the first trailer, premiered Tuesday, there will be plenty of sex, plenty of laughs, and plenty of screwing up in this humorous coming-of-age series.
“My life is one ridiculous mistake after another,” Hannah deplores. Girls is Dunham’s debut after her indie festival hit, Tiny Furniture, and Apatow’s first television series since Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared.
Hannah gets the final push April 15, at 10:30 pm E.S.T.
Watch: Girls
‘Girls’: HBO Premieres Lena Dunham’s New Comedy Trailer
