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Not sure what motivated me to watch the first two episodes of this controversial HBO comedy, but this morning I did and, frankly, the committee is still out on this one. On the surface this appears to be an attempt to take Sex and the City to a more shocking level, if you can imagine that, but shock value is the only thing I'm seeing two episodes in. The story of three twenty-somethings navigating the dangerous worlds of career and relationship in Manhattan is nothing special, but writer/creator Lena Dunham has thus far provided us with characters that it's pretty hard to empathize with. In the opening scene, we see learn that Hannah, Dunham's character, is being cut off by her parents (Peter Scolari, Becky Ann Baker), after financially supporting her for two years. She goes to her friends Marnie (Allison Williams) and Jessa (Jemima Kirk) that the solution to her problem is to go back to her parents and ask for two more years of support, backed by five or six pages of a book she's writing. We also learn that Hannah is in a relationship with a man named Adam (Adam Driver) who has no feelings for her, is just using her for sex, and could possibly be lying to her about using condoms during sex, which leads to a scene where Hannah is actually observed googling the results of what could happen with semen that drips out of the side of the condom. We also see a pregnant character ask her BFF's to support her when she decides to have an abortion and they all get there before she does. Not sure exactly what Dunham is trying to say here but not sure yet if it's worth wading through six seasons to find out.