Girls' Hannah - Why the millennial antihero was so hated

When Girls premiered in 2012, the show inspired a deluge of conversation - critics raved about the show, but a backlash soon grew. Perhaps the most controversial, hated – and misunderstood – part of the buzz around Girls was star and creator Lena Dunham’s main character, Hannah Horvath. So why did the ultimate Annoying Millennial-Antihero inspire so much hate – and did her struggles end up being more weirdly relatable than most want to admit?

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00:00 Why did Girls' Hannah strike such a nerve?
01:29 The self proclaimed voice of a generation
06:00 She's the millennial antihero of the 2010s
08:40 Did she get a good ending?
11:10 Hannah was sorely misunderstood

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