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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Olivia Petter

The heartbreaking reason why millennial women thought Adam in Girls was the perfect boyfriend

Lena Dunham said she never wrote the character of Adam in ‘Girls’ to be a ‘romantic hero’, but that is undoubtedly how some viewers perceived him - (HBO)

Picture the perfect boyfriend. Is he almost twice your height? Does he have aggressive tendencies both in and out of the bedroom? Is he emotionally and psychologically unpredictable? Is he noncommittal and averse to wearing condoms? Does he send you d*ck pics only to follow them up with an apology because they were for someone else?

Hopefully, the answer to these questions is “no”. But for a legion of millennial women, it was the opposite, as Lena Dunham reminded us in a recent interview with The New York Times when speaking about the character of Adam (played by Adam Driver), whom she created in her cult HBO series, Girls.

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