By Melissa Martinez

News Editor

As a female college student in her 20s, I must say that HBO’s “Girls” is a perfect coming-of-age series of those moments in life that you can’t believe actually happened.

“Girls,” which is directed, created and starring Lena Dunham, writer of the Netflix-Instant available “Tiny Furniture,” chronicles the mishaps and adventures of Hannah Horvath, a previously spoiled 20-something-year-old woman who has just been financially estranged from her parents.

While Hannah is dealing with her lack of a job, she finds herself in a complicated friends-with-benefits relationship with Adam, played by Adam Driver, while aiding her uptight roommate Marnie, played by Allison Williams, and dealing with getting over the traumatic ending of a four-year relationship and finding time to spend with her carefree and British-accented companion Jessa, played by Jemima Kirke.

The series documents the hardships in job searching with a Bachelor’s degree without glamorizing the being of an actual college-graduate in New York.

However, though the girls of “Girls” are completely interesting to watch as their lives unravel, the series has received negative feedback regarding poor handling of race and sexism. However, Dustin Rowles discussed in his article, “HBO’s ‘Girls’ and Our Resentment Toward Privileged, White America” that though these girls are unlikable, spoiled and lazy, the issues that they deal with are identifiable.

Rowles states, “The reason why I do like ‘Girls,’ and why I think there is something very noble about it, is that it does something that those others shows about unlikable people don’t and what very few shows have ever done: it follows complicated women dealing with their own complicated messes.”

Regardless of their socioeconomic status, the series revolves around four girls that aren’t yet “women,” or adults in the sense of financial independence. They discuss the controversy with being happy in life versus being independent, the issues of not being comfortable in their own bodies, wanting to be an “artist” instead of working a steady nine-to-five job, and other uncomfortable issues of sex, STDs, and what would be considered as promiscuity in society.

“Girls” is available via hbo.com/#/girls with an HBO subscription.