Apr 17 2017SaveTV ReviewsGirls4/17/17A-TV ReviewsGirls4/17/17Hannah learns to give in Girls’ quietly effective series finaleJoshua Alston749SaveSeveral pop culture publications and trades printed stories this week about the fact that some combination of Zosia…
Apr 9 2017SaveTV ReviewsGirls4/9/17B+TV ReviewsGirls4/9/17New York City’s worst best friends gather one last time in the penultimate GirlsJoshua Alston458SaveGirls saved its biggest twist for next-to-last. The news of Hannah’s pregnancy was surprising, as well as her…
Apr 3 2017SaveTV ReviewsGirls4/3/17A-TV ReviewsGirls4/3/17Old habits die hard in a surprising GirlsJoshua Alston557Save“What Will We Do This Time About Adam?” is an awkward title for an episode that provides such an elegant solution…
Mar 27 2017SaveTV ReviewsGirls3/27/17ATV ReviewsGirls3/27/17“The Bounce” makes breaking up with Girls much, much harder to doJoshua Alston471SaveOne of my fondest memories of the few years I spent in New York City was an interaction I saw on the subway during…
Mar 20 2017SaveTV ReviewsGirls3/20/17C+TV ReviewsGirls3/20/17Girls leans on its most irritating elements in one of its weakest episodes to dateJoshua Alston420Save“Full Disclosure” is one of the oddest, lumpiest half-hours Girls has ever turned out, an episode equally comprising…
Mar 13 2017SaveTV ReviewsGirls3/13/17B+TV ReviewsGirls3/13/17Suddenly Hannah is the grown-up in the room on GirlsJoshua Alston469SaveOne of Lena Dunham’s strengths as a writer is her understanding of how weird and arbitrary people can be, and how…
Mar 6 2017SaveTV ReviewsGirls3/6/17BTV ReviewsGirls3/6/17Life—and death—comes at you fast in a momentous GirlsJoshua Alston410SaveSaying goodbye to Girls is difficult because it’s hard to imagine what the show’s finish line looks like. Hannah and…
Feb 24 2017SaveTV ReviewsGirls2/24/17A-TV ReviewsGirls2/24/17With “American Bitch,” Girls perfects its take on the bottle episodeJoshua Alston547SaveFrom the moment Hannah walks into the well-appointed apartment of Chuck Palmer (Matthew Rhys), the fix is in. He’s…
Feb 19 2017SaveTV ReviewsGirls2/19/17ATV ReviewsGirls2/19/17Hannah and Marnie have a much-needed breakthrough in a terrific GirlsJoshua Alston400SaveAs many recent essays and oral histories have argued, Girls has had an outsize influence on television that it…
Feb 12 2017SaveTV ReviewsGirls2/12/17A-TV ReviewsGirls2/12/17Hannah gets her groove back in the final Girls premiereJoshua Alston459Save“Maybe I don’t want to enjoy things all the time. Maybe that’s not my style.”