You Asked For It: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Weighs in on Girls

Kareem hasn’t written a blog for the Huffington Post in three years. He’s broken his silence to give his opinion on one of cables biggest and most talked about shows, Girls. He doesn’t completely destroy it, but he feel it missed the mark. Here’s some gems:

On lack of black characters on the show:

Last season the show was criticized for being too white. Watching a full season could leave a viewer snow blind. This season that white ghetto was breached by a black character who is introduced as some jungle fever lover, with just enough screen time to have sex and mutter a couple of lines about wanting more of a relationship. A black dildo would have sufficed and cost less.

On when Girls gets serious:

When it takes itself seriously is when it stumbles. I just wish it would express its seriousness by being funnier. Seinfeld made it a point to ridicule the characters’ shallowness and self-involvement, raising it to a level of social commentary. And it was funny. Two other girl-centric shows that reached these same heights to be voices of a generation were My So-Called Life and Wonderfalls. Both funny, yet also insightful and original. Perhaps that’s why they both only lasted one season before becoming cult hits. Girls, a safer more mousy voice, has already been renewed for a third season.

Love it or hate it, Girls isn’t going away and Lena Dunham is Hollywood’s golden girl right now.

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