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Don’t compare “Garfunkel and Oates” to “Girls”!

It’s inevitable that any new show that diverges from the mainstream will get lumped in with something successful that came before. Because it’s a show about women who are unapologetically sexual, “Girls” was compared widely to “Sex and the City”; it became clear that the two shows had nothing in common shortly before “Broad City” came out, and got called the anti-“Girls.” (Then again, every single show involving women released since “Girls” has been compared to “Girls.”)  Read more...