I feel badly that I haven’t addressed some of your comments about my GIRLS recaps directly, so I will now do so indirectly but with more words that I would have used in comment responses, so there’s that.

THANK YOU for all the comments regarding my former Girls recaps. I appreciate those of you who agree with me, and I really appreciate those of you who disagree with me but explained your positions without using mean words. It has been fascinating to read all the reactions to the show, both here on my blog and throughout the world wide web.

As I’ve said, I don’t like the show. I hate it less than I first did, but I still do not enjoy it. That said, I think a lot of awesome discussion and controversy has come from the show, and that’s more valuable than any 30 minute television episode. For this I am grateful to Lena and crew. They may not know exactly what they’re doing, and they may not be doing it will expert skill, but they’re doing something bold and different, and that beats another 1/2 hour of Sixteen & Pregnant any day of the week (unless you have food poisoning, in which case crap reality television is truly the only cure – House Hunters International, especially).

ALL OF THAT SAID I will not be continuing my recaps. Sometimes I too like reading snarky episode coverage written by writers who obviously hate the shows they’re reviewing. I feel about it like I feel about reading TMZ between the hours of 5:30 and 6:00pm. It’s that time of day where you can’t handle the thought of doing one more piece of work and so reward yourself with 30 minutes of guilty pleasure. That said, I don’t want to waste any more of my day reading about celebrity antics. Same goes for the Girls recaps. They involve a lot of negative energy and me making up rude nick names for people, and I’m always in a bad mood when I finish. I don’t want to be in a bad mood after I watch TV (unless it’s Breaking Bad and my bad mood is induced by the fact that I have to wait until 6 days for another episode). I want to watch Veep and laugh my ass off at Julia Louis-Dreyfus running down the hallways of the West Wing in one high heel.

I’ll keep checking in with Girls as the season continues. R enjoys it, so if he says an episode is particularly good, I’ll watch it. If that episode contains something worth writing about, I’ll write about it. Until then, I’m sticking to my guns.

OF COURSE if one of you would like to submit a Girls recap or essay about your thoughts on Girls, I’d be happy to give a read/publish.

ONWARD.