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Girls

Girls is an American television series that premiered on HBO on April 15, 2012. Created by and starring Lena Dunham, Girls is a comedy-drama following a close group of
twenty-somethings living in New York City. The show's premise and major aspects of the main character were inspired by some of 27-year-old Dunham's real-life
experiences.
Girls is currently in its third season, which consists of 12 episodes and premiered on January 12, 2014. The series has been renewed for a fourth season, which will
premiere in 2015.
Aspiring writer Hannah gets a shock when her parents visit from East Lansing, Michigan, and announce they will no longer financially support her as they have done since her
graduation from Oberlin College two years before. Left to her own devices in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, she and her friends navigate their twenties, "one mistake at a time."
Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driverand and Alex Karpovsky co-star as Hannah's circle of friends.

Elementary
Elementary is an American crime drama series that premiered on CBS on September 27, 2012. It presents a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character
Sherlock Holmes set in the United States. It stars Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson, a female version of Holmes' companion.
In this version, Holmes is a former consultant to Scotland Yard, and a recovering drug addict who escapes to Manhattan, where his wealthy father forces him to live with his
worst nightmare a sober companion, Dr. Joan Watson. Formerly a successful surgeon until she lost a patient and her medical license three years ago, Watson views her
current job as another opportunity to help people, as well as paying a penance. Over time, Sherlock finds her medical background helpful, and Watson realizes she has a
knack for playing investigator.


Mad Men
Mad Men is an American television period drama series created and produced by Matthew. The series premiered on July 19, 2007 on the American cable network AMC and is
produced by Lionsgate Television. The seventh and final season will have 14 episodes that will be split into two seven-episode parts, airing in early 2014 and 2015. The first half
of the final season will premiere on April 13, 2014.
Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City. According to the show's pilot, the phrase "Mad
men" was a slang term coined in the 1950s by advertisers working on Madison Avenue to refer to themselves. The focal point of the series is Don Draper (Jon Hamm), creative
director at Sterling Cooper, and the people in his life, both in and out of the office. The plot focuses on the business of the agency as well as the personal lives of the characters,
regularly depicting the changing moods and social mores of the United States in the 1960s.
Mad Men depicts parts of American society and culture of the 1960s, highlighting cigarette smoking, drinking, sexism, feminism, adultery, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism.
Mad Men has received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its historical authenticity, visual style, costume design, acting, writing, and directing, and has won many
awards, including fifteen Emmys and four Golden Globes. It is the first basic cable series to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, winning it in each of its first four
seasons. In 2013, TV Guide ranked it sixth in its list of the sixty greatest dramas of all time, and it was ranked seventh in a list of the 101 best-written TV series of all time by the Writers Guild of
America.

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