My Feelings About Girls Over the Years MIGHT Have Been Related to My Feelings About Myself

I watched Girls and then I didn’t watch Girls and then I made impassioned speeches at parties as though not watching Girls gave me some sort of moral or cultural high ground and then I watched Girls again.
A part of my first wave of aversion to the series came from being a few years older than each of its main characters—and several years more deeply invested into psychotherapy. Whatever “insights” that might have afforded me meant I spent most episodes cringing in anticipation of the consequences of the characters’ actions. I wasn’t watching a cerebral dramedy, I was watching a horror movie and yelling “DON’T GO IN THERE!” at my television accordingly.