Tiny Furniture? More Like Big Nuisance.

You might have seen this annoying poster. If not, you are seeing it now.

Sometime last year, I was slightly irked to read about Oberlin grad Lena Dunham's "low budget" film Tiny Furniture, about a young woman who "returns home from college, moves in with her wildly successful artist family in a pristine TriBeCa loft, all the while trying to find a place to stand in the world" (it was in this Times article). "Oh great," I thought, "another story about a rich college grad 'struggling' to make it on her parents' dime. Boo Fucking Hoo."

So imagine how pissed I was when Tiny Furniture blew up at IFC and started getting acclaim in lots of other places, too. Worst of all, Dunham has even scored a deal with HBO. The show is Girls, a Sex and the City-esque look at 20-something privileged white chicks making it big in New York City (gee, how original). Dunham plays an "eternal intern" at a publishing house, the Yale grad Allison Williams (daughter of NBC anchor Brian Williams) has a gig at a fancy PR firm, and another girl is doing some other kind of artsy "job" that in real life one could only get with a great connection (the same applies to the cast of this show, clearly).

And of course we're not seeing this lovely portrayal of the intern world on a youth-targeted network like MTV, which airs stories of low-income minorities, uneducated guidos, pregnant teens, and fat people. No, it could never be on MTV because then all the hipsters would have to go through great lengths to explain how "ironic" they were being by daring to watch such a lowbrow network, and obsessively lament over how sad it is that MTV is no longer about music.

Luckily for the show's future viewers, Girls will be on HBO, just gritty enough to count as "authentic," but also sufficiently upperclass and "artsy," so when they get together with their whiskey-brewing recording studio intern buds, they'll feel okay watching.

Let's just hope that Girls doesn't go 'wild' -- we already saw enough yupster undressing this weekend during the No Pants Subway Ride -- and that's enough for a long, long time.