It takes a tremendous amount of cojones to come right to the AV Club, Internet haven for tweedy intellectual discussions dissecting comic books, video games and Saved by the Bell, and say flat-out that you "cannot gain anything useful" from pop culture as opposed to reading ancient Greek tragedies.

Yeah, a lot of people talk about the comparison between Girls and Entourage and how Girls is only getting flak because it's a "female" show and Entourage is a "male" show, but this hits the nail on the head —

Yeah, a lot of people talk about the comparison between Girls and Entourage and how Girls is only getting flak because it's a "female" show and Entourage is a "male" show, but this hits the nail on the head —

One of the things that might make critics of the show so frustrated when talking to people who are swooning over it is that on the one hand the backlash gets seen as disproportionate because Girls is just an "innocuous little dramedy" but then you have people like Film Crit Hulk talking about it as a "feast" of…

One of the things that might make critics of the show so frustrated when talking to people who are swooning over it is that on the one hand the backlash gets seen as disproportionate because Girls is just an "innocuous little dramedy" but then you have people like Film Crit Hulk talking about it as a "feast" of…

I won't comment about Wes Anderson, not being a particular fan of his, but I laughed my butt off at Arrested Development because it was a very direct, aggressive mockery of white privilege and spent three seasons putting rich white folks like the Bluths — not just vaguely "privileged" white folks but out-and-out rich…

I won't comment about Wes Anderson, not being a particular fan of his, but I laughed my butt off at Arrested Development because it was a very direct, aggressive mockery of white privilege and spent three seasons putting rich white folks like the Bluths — not just vaguely "privileged" white folks but out-and-out rich…

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It's not that people who hate this particular show are sexist, it's that they hate this particular show and Todd thinks it's the best show ever and so that's suddenly notable.

It's not that people who hate this particular show are sexist, it's that they hate this particular show and Todd thinks it's the best show ever and so that's suddenly notable.

Maybe that's your perception, but when I was in college and anyone so much as mentioned Sex and City an argument was very likely to instantly break out rehashing all the arguments people are having here with eerie point-by-point accuracy ("It's a feminist show about women speaking honestly with their own voice!" on…

Maybe that's your perception, but when I was in college and anyone so much as mentioned Sex and City an argument was very likely to instantly break out rehashing all the arguments people are having here with eerie point-by-point accuracy ("It's a feminist show about women speaking honestly with their own voice!" on…

That's actually the problem — I don't know that she's a writer.

That's actually the problem — I don't know that she's a writer.

The point is that the people who do not, in fact, find Hannah & Co. relatable aren't just saying "Oh they're terrible people", they specifically feel alienated because of issues of class and to a lesser degree race.

The point is that the people who do not, in fact, find Hannah & Co. relatable aren't just saying "Oh they're terrible people", they specifically feel alienated because of issues of class and to a lesser degree race.

We don't need to because we see her actually practicing law and talking about legal issues.

We don't need to because we see her actually practicing law and talking about legal issues.

Some of us hate Girls because we did hate Sex and the City, a lot, hoped that the second movie had finally killed the beast, and now find that it's resurrected itself under a new name.