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Which Girls character is the worst?

Which Girls character is the worst?

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Olivia Collette
Dec 04, 2023
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When Girls first came out, it did things that we’d seen male-dominated shows do before, but with women characters instead. So we got a group of women who were unlikable, selfish, and offensive, which – perhaps because it came after The Sopranos and during Mad Men, whose women characters sometimes choked under the weight of so much machismo – felt kinda …

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