re: Girls on HBO (I don't get the hype?)

It tries WAY too hard. It's PAINFULLY self-conscious. Each character is slightly more excruciating to endure than the previous character. I watched it and thought how pathetic these people are, how none of them seemed to have any moral center, any real strength,nothing even vaguely wise to offer, like bland socially- failed hipsters that had confused glibness with humor. The Cultural Taste-Makers DEMAND that you adore this show like they do, of course, but anybody with sense can see within minutes that the emperor has no clothes.