99 Words About … The horrible sex in HBO’s ‘Girls’
HBO was built on sex.
“Taxicab Confessions.” “Real Sex.”
The main reason to watch early comedies “Dream On” and “Arli$$”? Bosoms.
Then there was a little show called “Sex and the City.”
This one’s more like “Sex and the Pity.”
Writer-director-actress Lena Dunham has created a vivid, painfully specific 24-year-olds-in-Manhattan landscape in “Girls” (10:30 p.m. Sunday, HBO).
It’s a fearless, provocative, intimate look at the hopes — and shortcomings — of a new generation of women.
But what sticks with you is the sex scenes.
The awkward, humiliating, squirm-inducing, hands-covering-your-eyes sex scenes.
They’ll make you weep for the future of humanity.
— CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE