Should I try watching Veep? Or Girls?

[buffcoat]

You all seem to watch a lot of television...

[masterofsparks]

I highly recommend Veep, especially if you saw & liked In the Loop or like political comedy (or, really, any type of comedy that celebrates the maddening frustration of bureaucracy).

Haven't seen Girls.

[Gilly]

I hated Veep but only because I'm kind of tired of political humor especially when it's not taking any risks. I think Girls is fantastic, the only people I know who don't like Girls say they can't relate to it in any way so I guess it depends on if you need to relate to a show, or if you do relate to it. Maybe this is a simple way of looking at it because of the producer and the actors, but it really does feel like an adult Freaks and Geeks.

[Flood]

I heard Girls was a show for white folks.

http://gawker.com/5903468/a-girls-writers-ironic-racism-and-other-white-people-problems

[Omar]

I'm with Gilly on this one.  Not sure how F&G-y the entirety of s1 one has been, but last week's episode (co-written by Apatow) in which Hannah returns to Michigan certainly recalled F&G in terms of tone, geography, and (a topless) Becky Ann Baker.

I saw the first two episodes of Veep, and while I did not hate them, I have not returned. 

[effecT]

I saw the first two episodes of Veep, and while I did not hate them, I have not returned.

You should, it got a lot better.

[BadGuyZero]

I watched the first epidode of Veep last night and enjoyed it. Looks like I need to check out Girls.

[Martin]

I am largely underwhelmed by Veep, probably because I hold it against the impossibly high standard of The Thick of It and everything else Iannucci has done over the years. It is fine, of course -- well-written, well-acted, well-cast -- but it doesn't fly, it doesn't sparkle.

[not that clay]

I watched two episodes of Veep.  Too much Julia Louis-Dreyfus. I think it needs some characters who aren't morons.

[wood and iron]

I really really like Girls. It has a pretty realistic tone while still having really funny lines/moments. I've never been a woman in her early twenties in Brooklyn but the show feels really truthfully sketched. I do get a Freaks and Geeks tone (might be the Apatow involvement) and really enjoy it.

I've never watched Tiny Furniture and after all the negative stuff I've heard about it, I don't think I will because I really enjoy Dunham's work on Girls so much that I don't want a pretentious movie to ruin it.

[Omar]

I've never watched Tiny Furniture and after all the negative stuff I've heard about it, I don't think I will because I really enjoy Dunham's work on Girls so much that I don't want a pretentious movie to ruin it.

You should definitely view TF via the Criterion Blu-ray. 

[BadGuyZero]

I've never watched Tiny Furniture and after all the negative stuff I've heard about it, I don't think I will because I really enjoy Dunham's work on Girls so much that I don't want a pretentious movie to ruin it.

You should definitely view TF via the Criterion Blu-ray. 

It's also streaming on Netflix. I haven't seen it but plan on watching it this week.

[Paul DeLouisiana]

Both are great for their own reasons. Though I could go without seeing Lena Dunham naked every episode.

[Flood]

a few (late) thoughts on hbo's girls by the always-thoughtful Jamelle Bouie.

[BadGuyZero]

I just watched the first episode of "Girls."

Meh.

I wasn't awful nor was it great. It was a way to kill 30 minutes. It seems like it's going to turn into the hipster/indie equivalent of "Sex and the City." I know it's not entirely fair to judge a series on one episode alone, much less the first episode. I'm willing to watch a couple more episodes before rendering a final verdict.