So last night, it happened: HBO’s Girls ended. A show that has been with me since my freshman year.
Watch a special message from @LenaDunham and Allison Williams before the series finale of #Girls, in less than 2 hours on @HBO. pic.twitter.com/7Vz27pb6S7
— Girls (@girlsHBO) April 17, 2017
The show has never been the most popular, probably because of it’s controversial writer, director, producer, and main star- Lena Dunham. But Dunham has done a lot for women on TV. She’s displayed her ‘not made for TV’ body and created/directed/produced a show in which women can be unhinged and honest and very far from perfect. Girls was always about the time where you’re, in the words of Ms. Britney J. Spears, “not a girl, not yet a woman.” The time when you’re transitioning from being a wild, naïve student to a mature adult and that’s very much what the finale was about.
For those complaining about the GIRLS finale, life doesn't end when you turn 30.
— neddy (@ewabbott) April 17, 2017
Everyone wants a finale to be a happy ending. A closing. What #GirlsHBO did, was show real life. Which is what that show was from the start.
— Julia Proctor (@juliabproctor) April 17, 2017
It was met with as much praise as dislike though, which is very common for TV finales.
I have watched the Girls finale and I'm going to pretend the penultimate episode was the last one because I liked it much better.
— Kate Robinson (@KateRobbo91) April 17, 2017
I feel like the #girlsfinale left us with all of these characters still in shambles. Strange way to end a series. #GirlsHBO
— Sasha Davila (@Sasha_89) April 17, 2017
I think the finale was what the show needed. The characters and their lives were always messy, so why have a tidy wrap-up? The message of the final season was that sometimes the friends you make fade and you have to enter into your next phase in life without them, and that it’s okay to do so! Maybe for me, being a senior about to graduate college, this message is just ringing very true. Ultimately, I will miss Girls’ honesty and encouragement that women don’t always have to have it all figured out.
#GirlsHBO finale will be polarized by love/hate, but it was about maturity; the realization that life's road isn't traveled together by all
— Rich Grasso (@richgrasso) April 17, 2017