Move Over Carrie, Judd Apatow Brings "Funny, Real" Girls To NYC

HBO's next foray into the "ladies in New York City" genre comes from Judd Apatow and Lena Dunham, the mumblecore queen who will star in the show Girls, which focuses on the twenty-something set in the big city. Alex Blagg gave some hopeful commentary this morning, saying, "Girls might have a reverse-Sex & the City effect on NYC, where everyone who moves there acts cool and funny and real."

Could the influx of Carrie Bradshaw wanna-bes moving here come to a screeching halt, or at the very least, get tempered by an influx of girls who don't want to be a Carrie or a Samantha or a Charlotte or a Miranda? Or at the very very least, could we get some more realistic math happening with this show? In the trailer, Dunham's character Hannah Horvath (this may be her Twitter account) declares, "So I calculated, and I can last New York for three or four more days, maybe seven if I don't eat lunch."

The show will premiere in April 2012, along with another HBO show starring Seinfeld's Elaine as the vice president of the United States.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on December 12, 2011 4:47 PM

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jisnotused

"why do we need to get lube"

that was pretty funny

Gwinny

My favorite quote about SATC is the person who summed it up as "a show about 3 prostitutes and their mom."

I definitely noticed a big change in the kind of people who were coming to the city (especially downtown) during/after the show aired -- I can't help but think this show and others had something to do with it, in addition to many other factors of course, such as the city itself becoming a safer place to live. Neighborhoods like the East Village are completely unbearable now, though, which is sad.

robingee

That was a quote from Family Guy.

Gwinny

oh, thanks. I don't watch that show.

destroy_all_humans

hopefully this show wont have a horse as the lead actress. I like horses, but SJP was a very ugly one.

robingee

How original and unnecessary.

blameus

They taped an HBO special for this at a coffee joint in Brooklyn a few months back. In the interviews the main cast kept trying to explain how they weren't Sex and the City replicas, despite the interviewee generalizing their characteristics to single-word adjectives (the shy one, the weird one, loud, etc...). The male interviews seemed to go much worse...they couldn't think of anything to say on the spot as they stammered out incomplete sentences lending some credit to the rumor that this is just a 'younger version of S&TC'. I actually liked Dunham's Tiny Furniture so who knows...

And a Lindsay Weir show would be awesome!

luke_1

How about people move here for reasons other than wanting to be like characters they saw on tv.

knayte

Actually, that's why I moved here. The character I was trying to emulate was an extra on Law & Order who was just called "random office worker." Thankfully my dreams came true.

robingee

Corpse #1! Someday...

nicemarmot

Oh great. Judd Apatow's idea of a funny woman is a shrew who destroys all her husband's dreams.

Although even that couldn't be worse than Sex and the City.

robingee

I like Sex and the City. I don't believe it or want to be like it, but I think it's a good show. Who's the shrew who wants to destroy her husband's dreams? Leslie Mann?

stonemill

If this character was a post-collegiate Lindsay Weir, I would have no problem with that Apatow creation.

Also, he's executive-producing, but this is Dunham's creation. I'm looking forward to it.