'Girls' Season 1: Introducing the Conflictions of Young Womanhood

So I have just finished watching the final episode of the brilliant first series 'Girls' written by 26-year-old Lena Dunham who also stars in the show as main character Hannah. The viewer follows Hannah along with her three friends through young adult life through their rawest, confusing, frustrating and frankly humiliating experiences of relationships and general independent life.

As a 22-year-old young woman and recent university graduate now looking to begin my career, I had the strongest connection with this show from the beginning. Just listening to Hannah's insecurities spreading from all ends of the spectrum, from weight/social issues, to her inability to hold down a job and be taken seriously in the working world, I knew this show was speaking directly to me and so many other young adults in my position.

This show provides comfort in knowing you're not alone in your self-doubt as well as many laughs as the viewer is exposed to Hannah's personal trials that her friends also suffer from in their own particular amusing ways. This is why this show is so important and culturally relevant for the new adult generation. 'Girls' asks how the modern young woman is supposed to define herself and find satisfaction in adult life through work, friendship and love, suggesting by the end of the series whether there is even a need to define ourselves as young adults and instead throw caution to the wind and emotionally indulge ourselves in the moment.

The overall message of 'Girls' is to do what is right for you - whether that means breaking up with someone you no longer feel attached to or pursue the one you care for. What I love most about this show is the moments of randomness that reflect the real interactions us girls have with our close friends or boyfriends. Lena is great at portraying this sense of realism on camera. The pacing of this show is like no other, seemingly pieced together as if without any plan at all, just letting the story take its place in its own time. 

This is how the last episode of the series leaves the viewer, with a story that has been told in its own unique way setting in motion more compelling moments that will come in time. For us young women are 'girls' still trying to figure ourselves out 'one mistake at a time'.