--- description: Michael Bay and HBO’s Girls are about as dissimilar and themes as two entertainment brands can be. The director shoots for high-concept flicks with outlandish... title: What If Michael Bay Directed Girls? image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # What If Michael Bay Directed _Girls_? by [Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 26, 2015 8:55 AM CUT by [Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 26, 2015 8:55 AM CUT Michael Bay and HBO’s _Girls_ are about as dissimilar and themes as two entertainment brands can be. The director shoots for high-concept flicks with outlandish stunts and insane plots, while Lena Dunham’s show aims for low-key characterization and development. Whenever the two collided in a mash-up, real or otherwise, one’s sensibilities would be crushed for comedic effect, skewering the other. This is exactly what happened when YouTuber Alberto Belli released [the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmfcSDR5lY "undefined") “What if Michael Bay directed HBO’s ‘Girls’ ” on Wednesday. Hannah, Marnie, Jessa, and Shoshanna are all shown in the parody, accompanied by regular barbs about their body and attractiveness. To make it a genuine Bay parody, oversaturated scenes, jets, and—naturally—explosions appear. [_This article originally appeared on EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/25/michael-bay-producing-girls-parody-hits-youtube "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3759462/michael-bay-girls-lena-dunham-marine-jess-a-shoshanna-parody-hbo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3759462/michael-bay-girls-lena-dunham-marine-jess-a-shoshanna-parody-hbo/"},"headline":"What If Michael Bay Directed Girls?","datePublished":"2015-03-26T08:55:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:03.531Z","description":"Michael Bay and HBO’s Girls are about as dissimilar and themes as two entertainment brands can be. The director shoots for high-concept flicks with outlandish...","url":"https://time.com/3759462/michael-bay-girls-lena-dunham-marine-jess-a-shoshanna-parody-hbo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3759462/michael-bay-girls-lena-dunham-marine-jess-a-shoshanna-parody-hbo/","name":"What If Michael Bay Directed Girls?"}}]}] ```