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Hannah learns to give in Girls’ quietly effective series finale
Several pop culture publications and trades printed stories this week about the fact that some combination of Zosia…
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New York City’s worst best friends gather one last time in the penultimate Girls
Girls saved its biggest twist for next-to-last. The news of Hannah’s pregnancy was surprising, as well as her decision…
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Old habits die hard in a surprising Girls
“What Will We Do This Time About Adam?” is an awkward title for an episode that provides such an elegant solution for…
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“The Bounce” makes breaking up with Girls much, much harder to do
One of my fondest memories of the few years I spent in New York City was an interaction I saw on the subway during my…
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Girls leans on its most irritating elements in one of its weakest episodes to date
“Full Disclosure” is one of the oddest, lumpiest half-hours Girls has ever turned out, an episode equally comprising…
B+
Suddenly Hannah is the grown-up in the room on Girls
One of Lena Dunham’s strengths as a writer is her understanding of how weird and arbitrary people can be, and how…
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Life—and death—comes at you fast in a momentous Girls
Saying goodbye to Girls is difficult because it’s hard to imagine what the show’s finish line looks like. Hannah and…
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With “American Bitch,” Girls perfects its take on the bottle episode
From the moment Hannah walks into the well-appointed apartment of Chuck Palmer (Matthew Rhys), the fix is in. He’s one…
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Hannah and Marnie have a much-needed breakthrough in a terrific Girls
As many recent essays and oral histories have argued, Girls has had an outsize influence on television that it doesn’t…
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Hannah gets her groove back in the final Girls premiere
“Maybe I don’t want to enjoy things all the time. Maybe that’s not my style.”