HBO announced Thursday that the comedy and drama show "Girls" was renewed for a fourth season.
That may be good news for the show's creator, Lena Dunham, but those who have an issue with the show's frequent nude scenes are not so enthusiastic. During a promotion for the show's new third season at a Television Critics Association gathering, one critic asked the show's cast why the characters were always naked, according to TV Guide.
"I don't get the purpose of all the nudity on the show, by you [Lena Dunham] particularly," the critic said Thursday. "I feel like I'm walking into a trap where you go, 'Nobody complains about the nudity on Game of Thrones.' But I get why they're doing it. They're doing it to be salacious and titillate people. And your character is often naked just at random times for no reason."
"Girls" follows the lives of a group of women in their early 20s. The show has become widely popular and successful since it premiered in 2012, snagging five Primetime Emmy nominations in 2013.
The show's premise, "almost getting it kind of together," is based on Dunham's real-life social experiences.
Dunham told the critic the nudity is a practical part of life.
"It's because it's a realistic expression of what it's like to be alive, I think," Dunham said, according to TV Guide. "And I totally get it if you're not into me. That's your problem."
Other crewmembers for the show were also angered by the critic's question.
Judd Apatow, the show's executive producer, said the question was "sexist," and "misogynistic."
"That was a very clumsily stated question that's offense on it's face, and you should read it and discuss it with other people how you did that," Apatow said to the critic, Entertainment Weekly reported.
Another executive producer, Jenni Konner, shamed the critic for addressing Dunham the way he did.
"I was just looking at him, looking at him and going into this rage [over] this idea that you would talk to a woman like that and accuse a woman of showing her body too much," The idea it just makes me sort of sick," Konner said, Entertainment Weekly reported.
The third season of "Girls" premiers Sunday Jan. 12 on HBO.
