Emily Nussbaum: “Girls,” “Enlightened,” and the comedy of cruelty.

The HBO series “Girls” has been a trending topic all year, but in one sense it’s nothing new. Created, written, and directed by the twenty-six-year-old Lena Dunham, who plays the wannabe memoirist Hannah Horvath, “Girls” is merely the latest in a . . .

via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2013/02/11/130211crte_television_nussbaum