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Feral Finster's avatar

Supposedly, SATC irritated actual New Yorkers because it caused The City to be inundated with young women moving to NYC to imitate the foursome, to the point of walking four abreast on the sidewalk, 'cause that's what they did on the show. Manhattan sidewalks are too crowded for that sort of thing most of the time.

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Peter James's avatar

I think the appeal of rewatching Girls is that it actively trashes Millennials and all the things we believed were important. It was never meant to be an aspirational show, even if we thought it was at the time. Lena Dunham was making fun of Millennials in 2012 the way Zoomers make fun of us on TikTok now. It just took 10+ years for the joke to land.

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