new girls on the block

tv:  HBO's new show girls has recently premiered and seems ready from the outset to strike a chord.  It has behind it what seems to be one the "hardest working girls in showbiz", Lena Dunham, who has created the show, writes, directs and plays the lead, Hannah.  It also has behind it comedy superman Judd Apatow, who makes his return to TV; his first show since doing the highly underrated Undeclared and the highly praised Freaks and Geeks(in my opinion the best teen show of all times).  While Apatow's name carries a ton of weight, certainly enough to get this writer interested, it is Dunham's vision that seems to be the driving force behind the show.
This show has been characterized as a new version of Sex And The City but the only thing Girls has in relation to the former is that it stars a cast of women living in New York City.  What it really seems to be is Dunham's vision of the world that she lives in, maybe even the world we all live in.  The voice of the mid-twenties American.  She says early in the episode, "I think I could be the voice of my generation, or at least the voice of a genreation."  That seems to be exactly what she is.  When I watch this show's pilot I don't see the Sex And The City comparisons.  I see a generation.  I see possibly even more important, an age bracket in any generation.
There are aspects of this show that typecast it as part of the 2010's young adults.  Its references to social networking and communicating.  Talk of the economy and tough job market.  But what it is really about is that point in your life where you ask yourself , "Now what?"  The show begins with Hannah(Dunham) being cutoff financially from her parents because they feel that the two years she's had since finishing college are enough to figure out how to find a job and earn a living.  Her parents point of view is almost beside the point.  What that moment, and what seems the rest of the show conveys is that the answers don't always come that simply.  Young adults are looking for happiness as much as a job and Hannah can't find both in the same place.
We go to college.  We earn degrees.  We don't always know what we want, or if what we are learning will lead us there.  And that is where the show picks up.  It is that transition from child and pure academic to adult professional that defines that period of a lot of young adults lives and certainly this show.
Sure there are plot settings involving love and career and even conflicts between friends that will continue to drive the arc of the story.  But what we are watching is really just a snapshot of what it is like when people feel like they are supposed to have the answers and don't.  I don't know what this show holds for the future having only seen one episode, but it seems like it has importance over popularity written all over it.  I eagerly look forward to Dunham's depiction of like in the adult transition.
Blogging at home by myself late at night, Girl or not, it seems like those questions really exist.