The Girl: A Complicated Character

So, I'm on the fence ... I hear Girls is one of the best shows on television today. And, that Girls is the equivalent of watching a novel unfold before your very eyes on screen. All because, the characters created are confused, irrational and undeniably complicated. Admittedly, I watched just the first episode and I didn't get into it. It's like when an editor says that a book needs to hook 'em within the first page -- it just didn't happen for me. So, I chose to sit on the other side of the fence while everyone raves about this show and how great it is that girls are finally personified on television as the complicated creatures we are.
Guys are saying, "it's funny because girls really do all these things." But, you would have thought someone actually figured us out - but instead, it sounds like we've given another media to convey and contribute mixed messages on the aspects of being "girly." So for me, why watch the show? I spend every day ruminating, complaining about my weight, saying awkward things - so for a show to just remind me of all the things that I do ... eh, not thrilled about it.

Then again, it's like a best seller; of course you want to read it to see what all the hype is about. So I think about climbing over the fence again and watching more episodes to see if I can fall in love with someone who might be just like me. However, as a true lover of fiction, I believe novels, and television series that aspire to be such, should visually represent situations that are realistic enough to be unattainable to a degree as the reader/watcher. Like, when Sex and The City first aired, sure it might be possible Carrie scored a rent controlled apartment on the upper east side, but the reality of a girl in her twenties coming to New York and finding a studio within your price range as a start out freelance writer... slim to none.  However, this show Girls in all the critiques and public opinion manifestos that I've read and heard, claim that this show is real. The situations and awkward interactions depicted in the span of an hour are within moments of happening in real life.

I guess it's a matter of preference. Do you like to watch shows that entertain for the sake of vicarious living? Or a portrait of society that keeps the blemishes and a pesky five pounds she's determined to lose?  In my opinion, this show is like tofu for me - I want so bad to like it, but I just don't.