Apparently, complaining about your post-college twenties gets you a TV show now.

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I realize this has the potential to become political, but I do think it straddles the line more than crosses it, plus it's production related, so I'll hope this isn't locked.

First off, what makes Girls interesting (to me at least) is simply how much of a train wreck it is, and indeed, the show's tagline makes note of this. You are supposed to hate the characters, and it does a great job of doing so, but I find it both fascinating and disgusting how yet another whiny twenty something gets a TV show just on the basis of complaining a bit more vocally than her peers.

Second, I must admit to my fair share of moping around after college, regretting film school, posting about it, etc, but I will personally say celebrating this negative behavior is the ironic icing on the cake for my own generation.

What are your thoughts?
 
Apparently from the article, this show will be on MTV... back in my early 20's, contemporaries were simply whining about their lives in grunge music video and early "Real World" form on the same channel.

Nothing new under the sun.
 
I think it's pretty typical for a new generation that's at that 'getting started on my responsible adult life' to go through this kind of angst. First, you realize that less than half of all you learned has no practical use, and then you realize the road to financial independance is ridiculously daunting, and then you realize that relationships are no longer based on mutual need, but rather on boredom, and so you mope around a while, getting up the courage to say, okay, let's do this thing.

Now we have the facebook generation getting into the fray, and I think it's going to be intersting, if not a glorified social networking rallying point.

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I caught 10 minutes of this a little while back and that was all I could take. Shows like Freaks and Geeks, Party Down, and Bored to Death get cancelled and this crap lives. WTF is that all about? Narcicism of the "facebook generation?"
 
Unfortunately we live in a world where Facebook and Twitter lead many to believe that every single thought and complaint that enters their mind is important to the rest of the world. Some of these people end up getting a following of other whiny people, and become successful by ironically not being very successful. Madness if you ask me.
 
jghenderson said:
Unfortunately we live in a world where Facebook and Twitter lead many to believe that every single thought and complaint that enters their mind is important to the rest of the world. Some of these people end up getting a following of other whiny people, and become successful by ironically not being very successful. Madness if you ask me.
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Its a little ironic that your signature is your twitter account, where you are also posting your thoughts.
 
Cory Braun said:
Its a little ironic that your signature is your twitter account, where you are also posting your thoughts.
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Yes, it absolutely is. I resisted getting Twitter for a very long time, but after being told over and over by people in the industry that I needed a Twitter if I wanted to to make it, I gave in. That being said, I try to keep my tweets to either ideas that will make people think, recommendations for movies that I think people should watch, or general work related connections. I hope to get to a place where I don't need Twitter, but for now I feel I have to play along.
 
jghenderson said:
Yes, it absolutely is. I resisted getting Twitter for a very long time, but after being told over and over by people in the industry that I needed a Twitter if I wanted to to make it, I gave in. That being said, I try to keep my tweets to either ideas that will make people think, recommendations for movies that I think people should watch, or general work related connections. I hope to get to a place where I don't need Twitter, but for now I feel I have to play along.
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Hahaha, twitter to make it? Who told you that? I work professionally in LA, and I know some people on twitter, but most aren't and I've never been told you should be. Maybe the crowd you run with is more social networked than mine. To me twitter is for actors and people who play the publicist-media cat-mouse game.

On another note, I have seen a couple episodes of Girls, something about similar circumstances, and it is a genius show. I think it portrays everything very well, women and men. It's great.
 
jghenderson said:
Yes, it absolutely is. I resisted getting Twitter for a very long time, but after being told over and over by people in the industry that I needed a Twitter if I wanted to to make it, I gave in. That being said, I try to keep my tweets to either ideas that will make people think, recommendations for movies that I think people should watch, or general work related connections. I hope to get to a place where I don't need Twitter, but for now I feel I have to play along.
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Fair enough. I don't think you need to be on twitter to "make it" but at least you're trying to make your tweets interesting.

I used to hate twitter but now I see how there are good aspects to it. I just stop following people who write too much crap. Which means I don't follow many people... I love people who tweet every few days when they have something genuinely of interest to share.
 
Fluoro said:
I don't think you need to be on twitter to "make it" but at least you're trying to make your tweets interesting.
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I heard a while back that a large Northeastern ad agency purged itself of emplyees who weren't engaged with social media. True story. I'd say in certain markets, at certain levels, it's more important than others to have a social media presence.
 
Well, reading this article it says her brother is in a pretty well known band (Vampire Weekend), and her dad works in the film industry. I'm not crying "nepotism" here, but is it possible that her blog plus some industry connections might have helped? I mean, I'd use any industry connections if I had them. We all would. It would be stupid not to when one is trying to get their foot in the door in the film, TV, and music industry.

As for whiny twentysomethings getting all this attention as of late, I think it is definitely due to the social media craze. Had we had that back 10 or 20 years ago, I would guess there would have been similar pissing and moaning on a grand scale about how life sucks, coming from the younger generation of that time.

The whole social media thing is truly madness. Facebook is having trouble now with its falling stock. Twitter is king for now I guess. How long until the sheen of the tweet wears off and people move onto the next one? All that time spent on Facebook making "friends" and tweeting the hours away on Twitter will possibly have been a colossal waste of time for many people. What happens then when everything moves onto the next big social media site? Do all your Twitter followers and Facebook friends tag along? Right now we truly are living in a world that feels like the bizarre love child of George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, and William Gibson all rolled up into one big ball of madness.
 
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