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

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The only true moment of the whole episode was when this guy who she should be thanking her lucky stars even spoke to her opened up to her about some awkward encounter he had as a kid when he let some other guy jerk him off and she totally disregarded him and blew it off as insignificant compared to her own dumbass ramblings then lashed out at him for not sharing with her.

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This is the episode that would be next for me if I continued watching, and I don't know that I can keep going.

Hannah's self-centeredness bothers me. I find it repulsive and annoying. It's like she's a child with some fictional idea of what it means to be a "grown up" so she mimics what she thinks they do.

For example, the party she had.. She invited her best friend (Marnie) and also Marnie's ex and his new girlfriend. When the ex's girlfriend started a fight with Marnie, Hannah wouldn't even take up for her own best friend.

And then when her Marnie left, she brushed it off and wanted everyone to continue chatting and having a good time.
It was one of the most uncomfortable things I've ever seen. What kind of person behaves that way? I literally know nobody who would act as childish and weird as Hannah does.

That said, I can't hate on Lena. I think she can be talented (albeit quirky) and she clearly wants the audience to hate Hannah.