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What books-to-TV shows are you watching right now? What makes you choose to watch them? Does the television show make you more or less apt to read the books?

The pace of 'Looking' is slow and predictable, the comedy falls flat, and there is no encouragement to keep watching. Honestly the only thing going for this show is that there are gay characters. But that's a novelty and will wear out quickly.

The duty of an artist, if there even is one, is to be honest and true to her own story, not to be true to *your* story. If the story she creates doesn't contain much of you, that's because there *isn't* much of you in her actual life, like it or not. To fault 'Girls' for that is to confuse the work of art with the social reality it is depicting.

Girls does something many shows have done before: present a set of characters whose personality and choices are rarely admirable or at times even forgivable, and still craft a world where we care about what happens to them and agree to follow their comical/tragic misteps.

HBO took the first big night in television of the new year (football, Golden Globes) to drop an extended trailer for Season 4 of Game of Thrones. And everyone from the Wall to Slaver's Bay is getting hot in their chain mail.