Sex and the City served up romantic failure wrapped in the trappings of success. Girls offers romantic failure wrapped in the trappings of failure.

And that is the baseline joke of Girls.

There was a lot of sex in the ’60s, but not much sexual revolution. For all the talk of equality, sexual liberation and independence, the love lives of these young women are not much more satisfying than those of their grandmothers. Their professional expectations are, if anything, even lower.

“Let’s play the quiet game,” Adam tells Hannah after telling her to lie on her stomach with her pants down.

incredibly disturbing …