Lena Dunham

The Week That Was: With Friends Like These

Carla Buzasi | Posted 11.05.2013 | UK
Carla Buzasi

As the prime minister's only black, working-class advisor moves to a part-time role, amid suggestions he was pushed out by the Etonian clique with which David Cameron has chosen to populate Downing Street, the charges of elitism are only going to get worse. You can be celebrated for writing a hit TV show like Girls even if you get your ethnic mix off-kilter, especially if you take the criticism on the chin and don't duck the issue, but it's far harder when you're running the country.

Caroline Frost

Girls Star Admits Frustrations With His Own Character - 'It's A Conflicted Relationship'

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK Entertainment

The boys on ‘Girls’ may have all sorts of trouble dealing with the women in their lives but, in real time, Alex Karpovsky says life could not be s...

Feminism Means Freedom, Choice and Equality, but We Also Need Self-Respect and Sisterly Love

Katherine Baldwin | Posted 28.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Katherine Baldwin

I've called myself many things in public - a binge eater, an addict, a perfectionist, a workaholic, to name but a few - but I've never called myself a feminist. It's only now that I'm starting to wonder why.

Lena Dunham and the Voice of My Generation

Hugh Bassett | Posted 27.03.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Hugh Bassett

Girls is littered with examples of overindulged, entitled twenty-somethings, unable to hold down a job for more than a few months due to personality clashes and boredom, while being entirely self-obsessed and overly concerned with every aspect of their own lives from fashion to food. It paints a picture of an age group trapped in arrested development, desperately unable to grow up.

Girls Season 2: The Best Bits

Annie McMonagle | Posted 19.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
Annie McMonagle

With the Season 2 finale airing on Sky Atlantic this week, HBO's GIRLS' sophomore season ended on a real high. The final episode (spoiler alert if you are yet to watch) brought it back to basics - the episode was filled with lots of the characters, real charm and effortless Brooklyn style.

Children of the Revolution: The Second Season of 'Girls'

India Ross | Posted 19.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
India Ross

Like Arrested Development, the gag of Girls is that characters of stature have the heads of children (note the title: by any common-sense metric the protagonists are 'women'). Hannah is archetypal; her inner child so vocal it has long put her outer adult out of business.

Caroline Frost

TV REVIEW: 'Girls' Was All About Boys, And A Delightful Double Act

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 21.04.2013 | UK Entertainment

Following Hannah's solo dreamy journey last week, Girls were back ensemble this week, with a huge bonus ball to boot. While Hannah struggled with ...

Caroline Frost

TV REVIEW: Girls - But Where Were They?!

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 14.04.2013 | UK Entertainment

This week's 'Girls' was a weird one, bit like one of those 'EastEnders' specials where only Dot and Ethel, or Kat and Alfie appear, which makes the wh...

Where Would Lena Dunham Date if She Lived in Dalston?

Nana Wereko-Brobby | Posted 07.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Nana Wereko-Brobby

There are too many great things about the HBO series Girls, the foremost being its creator Lena Dunham. She brings twentysomething women's personal, p...

Caroline Frost

TV REVIEW: Girls - There's Nothing Like A Nice Dinner...

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 06.04.2013 | UK Entertainment

The success of this week's 'Girls' hinged on two dinner parties and two revealing exchanges, amounting to the most perfectly balanced episode of the s...

EXCLUSIVE CLIP: Girls, Mistakes And Role Models

The Huffington Post UK | Rosamund Irwin | Posted 06.04.2013 | UK Entertainment

'Girls' has taken the entertainment world by storm, with its creator Lena Dunham scooping up a catalogue of awards after just one season. As the first...

Caroline Frost

TV REVIEW: Girls Just Want To Have A Fuelled Night Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 30.03.2013 | UK Entertainment

'Girls' Episode 3 found Hannah very easily getting some freelance work, writing about whatever she liked, as long as it was about participating in a t...

RiRi Suffers A FBF

The Huffington Post UK | Matt Bagwell | Posted 25.01.2013 | Home

Just a day after Nicole Scherzinger suffered a FBF (flashbulb flash) at the National Television Awards, Rihanna also revealed slightly more than she (...

Caroline Frost

REVIEW: Girls Sees Hannah With New Love, Old Problems

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 23.03.2013 | UK Entertainment

'Girls' second episode found Elijah trying to dissuade George from finishing with him because of a) infidelity and b) the small matter of him sleeping...

Naked as We Came: What Lena Dunham's Nudity Says About Us

Helen Charman | Posted 22.03.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Helen Charman

The naked body is humanity at its most vulnerable and its most truthful, and it should be celebrated not only for its potential to be beautiful but also its potential to be funny, and awkward, and sad, and old, because this in turn is all that we are, and can be.

Girls, Golden Globes and Tuna Pasta Bake

Christine Babington Smith | Posted 19.03.2013 | UK Style
Christine Babington Smith

I wonder how many friendships forged by people in their twenties survive, not many I should think.

Caroline Frost

TV REVIEW: Girls Are Back, And It's Dysfunctional Business As Normal

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 16.03.2013 | UK Entertainment

It's been another great week for US TV's golden girl Lena Dunham. Hot on the heels of her Emmy Awards triumph at the tail-end of last year, the tattoo...

WATCH: Girls Series 2 Beckons - Surely Not The End For Hannah And Adam?

The Huffington Post UK | HuffPost Staff | Posted 17.02.2013 | UK Entertainment

Girls is already so firmly established in our zeity-geisty consciousness, it seems hard to believe that it was only the first series' finale last nigh...

That's a Wrap: Condoms, STIs and HBO's Girls

Claire Surrey | Posted 12.02.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Claire Surrey

Condoms, when properly used, can help prevent STI and HIV transmission. If you're sexually active, use your judgement and ask whether your partner has been tested. Better yet, why not nix the suspense and make getting regular STI screenings a New Year's resolution?

Girls And The All Too Familiar TV Woman

Stephanie Chase | Posted 23.12.2012 | UK Entertainment
Stephanie Chase

With a show creating so many differing opinions you would think that what you are watching is something radically different, especially for American television. Well behind the cameras it is, but unfortunately on screen it's just more of the same.

Is 'Girls' Relevant To British 20-Somethings?

The Huffington Post UK | Sarah O'Meara | Posted 23.10.2012 | UK Lifestyle

We’ve had 'Gossip Girls', 'New Girls' and 'Broke Girls'. But until last night, Huffpost Lifestyle weren’t aware of any twenty-something women allo...

Stop Criticising 'Girls'; Start Criticising Yourself

Jemimah Steinfeld | Posted 22.12.2012 | UK Entertainment
Jemimah Steinfeld

Girls features an exclusively white cast both in terms of its main characters and its peripheral ones, and this has been a source of much condemnation. But instead of criticising Girls and Lena Dunham, its writer, we should really criticise ourselves.

'Girls' is Good Television, Not a Televised Revolution

Amy Whitear | Posted 21.12.2012 | UK Entertainment
Amy Whitear

Whilst Dunham is undoubtedly talented - her multiple credits on the show vouch for that - it is hard to see her as some sort of creative genius. She is simply a young woman who has written a somewhat autobiographical show that is funny and is receiving praise.

Body-Hair Backlash: Why Women Need to Pick Their Battles Wisely

Tamsin Crimmens | Posted 18.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Tamsin Crimmens

Is a debate about the rights and wrongs of hair-removal in danger of alienating a new generation of women who don't relate to the old bra-burning feminist stereotypes?

Lena Dunham and the Second Wave of Mumblecore

Charlie Phillips | Posted 16.12.2012 | Home
Charlie Phillips

It doesn't matter whether you like Girls or not - the bigger story is that new people are taking over your screens. Dunham is an exciting high point in the slow emergence of Mumblecore, the mid-2000s low-budget movie phenomenon that fascinated indie film lovers but barely made it to UK screens.