DAE think this show was about how shallow and self-absorbed these characters are?

Seriously.

I just finished watching the series last night. I watched it in two blocks: from episode one to episode six, and then from episode seven to the end.

After finishing the sixth episode, I still found all the characters reasonably likeable, and I felt I could relate to them. At this point:

Hannah has finally committing to being finacially independant, and was shown to have a warm relationship with her parents.

Marnie had finally broken free of her long-term relationship, which seemed like an honest and mature thing to do.

Jessa was still working as a nanny, and while she seemed irresponsible and flakey, was still doing something to earn money and remain independant.

However, from the seventh episode onwards, I found that all of the flaws written into the characters were magnified to the point where it becomes impossible to sympathise with them. For example:

Hannah is shown to be uncommited to her writing and increasingly unreasonable in her relationships. Even though I felt she was the most likeable out of the three, her incapacity to make good decisions made me lose any sense of identification with her character. For example, who in their right mind would want to live with an ex-boyfriend who is bitchy and hostile?

Even though Marnie begins to look more and more desperate in the later episodes, I found her to be the most sympathetic character by the season final. Regardless, it's hard to believe her and the Wedding Celebrant getting together, and her thing with Jessa seemed unlikely.

Jessa's marriage makes her character seem completely shallow and materialistic. We know that Thomas is an asshole, and Jessa's wedding makes her seem like all her ideals are thrown away, simply so that she can have a comfortable life.

If the point of the series was to show how unlikeable many 20-something girls are, then I would say it was succesful, and well-written. However, because I couldn't relate to the characters in the last half of the series, it ceased to be entertaining, and bits that I should have found funny just seemed contrived and unrealistic.

I'm interested to hear if anyone else had this experience, or if I'm just trying to read too much into the series.

Thanks.

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