Created by and starring Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture), the show is a comic look at the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of girls in their early 20s.
Lena Dunham returns for the third, highly anticipated season of her Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning comedy series Girls. Following the misadventures of a group of 20-something friends in NYC, the series centers on Hannah Horvath (Dunham) and her mess of anxieties, insecurities, and uncertainty as she approaches her mid-20s.
In Season 3, Hannah is now in a committed relationship with Adam (Adam Driver), and the two are settling into a newfound domesticity in Hannah's apartment. Hannah is also working on rehabilitating her writing career and concentrating on delivering her eBook to her eccentric publisher. Meanwhile, Marnie (Allison Williams) is adjusting to life after a sudden and traumatic breakup with Charlie and meticulously working to achieve the life she feels she deserves. Nearing graduation, newly single Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) masterminds a plan to create a healthy (at least on paper) balance between partying and her studies. And, continuing her streak of disrupting the lives of those around her, Jessa (Jemima Kirke) resurfaces and strikes up an ambiguous friendship with a flamboyant father figure. Over this season's 12 episodes, the friendships between the girls are more volatile than ever, proving that female friendship is its own kind of romance. As always, love, life, sex and death can all interrupt the circuitous path to adulthood – and will arrive when you're least prepared.
Awards for Girls
- Golden Globes USA 2013 – Won Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy, Won Best Actress in a Television Series Musical or Comedy Lena Dunham
- BAFTA Awards 2013 – Won BAFTA for Best International
- AFI Awards 2013 – Won TV Program of the Year
- Art Directors Guild 2013 – Won Excellence in Production Design Award
- Gracie Allen Awards 2013 – Won Outstanding Director – Entertainment
- Directors Guild of America 2013 – Won DGA Award
- Primetime Emmy Awards 2013 – Nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Lena Dunham, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Adam Driver
- Primetime Emmy Awards 2012 – Won Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series, Nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series
- Satellite Awards 2012 – Nominated Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical
- Television Critics Association Awards 2013 – Nominated Individual Achievement in Comedy Lena Dunham
- Writers Guild of America 2013 – Won WGA Award (TV) New Series
Girls Season 2 Reviews
“Sharper, smarter, more richly layered, detailed (and acted), "Girls” has improved upon its first season. Newsday
“Girls continues to delight and provoke in a way too few shows can.” The Detroit News
“There hasn't been a show since "The Sopranos” so concerned with bodily functions, and it makes its oft-compared predecessor “Sex and the City” look like a TeenNick production. But it's also fresh, bracing and original." Boston Herald
“..frequently poignant and audacious, and actors who made little impression in the first season are allowed to flower. Marnie, surprisingly, is nearly elevated to the lead this season, which allows Williams to display a warm vulnerability that was barely visible last season. Mamet, the most talented regular cast member, was underused last season, but Shoshanna has a number of moments here that are quietly heartbreaking. Jessa's still the least interesting and least likable recurring character, but there's a moment near the halfway point of the season that promisingly suggests that Kirke will be allowed to explore emotional textures that might yield a character as opposed to what's usually a mean-spirited and easy caricature of the "free spirit.” And, of course, there's Hannah. Dunham still has a disturbing and irritating propensity, as a writer-director, for scoring points off her character's chubby body in a fashion that amounts to a perverse reverse-vanity, but she's still her show's ideal nucleus: intelligent, demanding, infuriating, promising, and oddly lovable." Slant Magazine
“As bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as it was in its first season, Girls may now be even spunkier, funnier, and riskier.” Entertainment Weekly
“It lets you simultaneously laugh at and with the characters, and feel justified for laughing, then ashamed, and then the pendulum swings back again; this is a much messier and more fascinating set of reactions than what sitcoms typically evoke.” New York Magazine
“The new season contains more laugh-out-loud funny moments, the characters are well defined and the male characters get more prominence.” Denver Post