GIRLS just wanna have fun

It's honest. It's hilarious. It's a tiny bit too realistic when it comes to chasing guys and our parent's sex lives. Hit show Girls is back with stunning force, premiering on US channel HBO this week.

And it's certainly not a let down. Awkward sex scenes, drama fueled parties and run-in with exes all feature in the return of the programme every girl in her twenties should be watching.

Girls is the show we've all been waiting for. Following a group of young women trying to figure out their lives in modern-day New York, Girls is Sex and the City for a new generation. Avoiding a predictable sitcom based in glamour filled Manhattan, where the highly paid stars sip cocktails and shop at Prada, creator Lena Dunham is brutally and wonderfully honest about life for young women fresh out of college. Expect to hear all about the pains of unpaid internships, the bank of Mum and Dad and even STIs in a script which is as funny as it is heart wrenching.

Even better, the fantastic cast of actresses is refreshingly ordinary looking. Forget size eight glamour pusses, the Girls cast is made up of real looking women with very real looking scenes to compliment them. Never seen a TV show portray that awkward fumbling-for-a-condom moment? Now you can!

Perhaps the thing that makes Girls most appealing, however, is its starkly honest portrayal of relationships. From the often fraught, yet still touching, friendships of the central cast of girls, to their pursual of inappropriate men, the scenarios we all can't help but relate to are all sensitively and perfectly presented. When Marnie breaks up with her long term boyfriend do we see her sobbing over Haagen Daas before making a swift recovery? No. The break up is long, spanning most of an entire season, with the final ultimatum beautifully interspersed with scenes of the couple's first meeting. The recovery process is shaping up to be equally long, and full of Facebook stalking, inappropriate hook ups with strangers, and multiple awkward encounters. It's agonising, yet incredibly sensitive to the reality of break ups, just one example of Dunham's incredibly thoughtful scripting and characterisation.

However, it's not all heartbreak. Girls is intelligent, funny and uplifting. Bursting with quotable moments, its admission that life isn't all grand romances and wild parties is both refreshing and comforting.

So if you find yourself at a bit of a loss of what to do these cold winters nights, get your own girls together and give it a watch. You'll be giggling at disastrous drug experimentation, cringey bosses and the never-ending quest to 'find yourself' before you know it.