Absolutely not.
The only things the 2 shows have in common are 4 girls and living in NYC. SATC is way more clever and witty and despite the over the top fashion, some of the relationship stories from the characters are actually relatable. I actually cried watching SATC (Aidan and Big arc).
Girls on the other hand is bad writing with characters annoying af and completely unbelievable.
The women on Sex and the City were in their 40's and were financially well-off.
The girls on this show barely have jobs and barely out of college with no set careers.
actually the girls on satc were in their early 30's starting out, Samantha was older though. and on Girls they are all well out of college except Shoshona. so early close to mid 20s.
Shosh-21
Hanna-24
Marnie-23
Jessa-24
all in Season 1
Carrie-32
Miranda-33
Charlotte-32
Samantha-36
all in Season 1
Exactly - it's SatC featuring four impoverished friends doing menial jobs living in disgusting apartments wearing hideous thrift shop clothes and dating worthless losers.
shareGirls reminds me a bit of Seinfeld but with um girls: Unlikeable characters, funny, living their self-absorbed lives in NYC.
shareThis is 100% SATC for millennials. Even the whole main girl is a writer and this is her story of her and her friends. The only difference is the girls are about a decade younger so instead of being rich you get to watch them be poor.
shareIt is 100% not. Millennials who watch this are boring and trite. If any millennial relates to this, I hope they drown in their own vomit.
shareNobody said anything about relating to it. There's zero doubt that this show is almost a direct copy of satc with a target audience of early to middle aged millennials. If you broke both shows down to just outlines with bullet points about the plot and characters, they'd be almost identical. Hannah is a writer with an eclectic group of girlfriends. The show focuses on Hannah being in an in again off again toxic relationship with an older man who calls her kid and her dysfunctional friends and their problems...... sound familiar?
shareNo. 4 females in NYC doesn't mean that they are the same story.
shareI'm not sure the Girls in girls are hipsters. To be honest, I can relate more to Girls than to SATC, although I love SATC. But I can't really explain why... And I'm slightly older than the girls in Girls. I'm not a Millenial (God I hope Im' not a millennial). I'm from the Goonies, ET Phone Home, Temple of Doom era. The Girls are too young for that. The characters, not the actors, they play younger.
Anyway, I love the show and I will miss it. I don't necessarily want Adam and Hannah together, but I don't want him with Jessa either. I don't know what I want... Oh Sh*t.... maybe I am a Millenial after al. I can't be right? I'm from 1981??? I'm too old!
Millennials are 1982-2002 so you've missed it by one year. Though most millennial stereotypes come from the behavior shown by those born closer to the early to mid 90's, people who are in their early 20's and late teens now.
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