The aforementioned Lena Dunham is not only the star, but she also joins Apatow as one of the executive producers and no doubt brings her writing talents to the show.

The writers and subsequently, the writing.

The feeling of “Oh crap, what do I do now?!” is something many of us will be able to identify with. In fact, the mere mention of receiving money for her hard work gets her “fired” or as fired as one can be from a job that doesn’t pay them. She’s been at her internship a year and is expecting it to turn into a paid job any day now, except it doesn’t. The main character, Hannah Horvath (played by Lena Dunham) is a writer and only child who relies exclusively on her parent’s generosity to survive, until they cut her off. Or rather, I can relate to the premise, but I’m sure a lot of other girls (and guys) can as well. I’m going to jump into why you should watch this show, but before that I have one gripe with the people in charge of scheduling over at HBO: Game of Thrones and Eastbound and Down are great, but they aren’t really a natural segue for a show like Girls, perhaps it would have been smarter to NOT cancel How to Make it in America, which would have made a great pairing. However, unlike Pants the focus here is primarily on the girls, as the title would suggest.

This show is similar to I Just Want My Pants Back in terms of highlighting the “plight” of all the early to mid-twentysomethings from a generation who is known for its sense of entitlement. Couple that with learning Judd Apatow is one of the executive producers and my interest went from “probably going to watch an episode or two” to “definitely going to watch”, and I’m glad I did. I’ve enjoyed following Arfin’s writing from Dear Diary to her more recent Rookie contributions, so I knew I would at least want to check this show out. The second was more recently, as a promo during my (millionth) On Demand screening of Sex and the City, which was genius on HBO’s part. The first was an interview (or perhaps it was a tweet) several months back done by Lesley Arfin that mentioned she was going to be a staff writer for a new HBO series.

I learned about Girls in two separate but equally important ways.

Dear Diary by Lesley Arfin