Mar 30 2018
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Directed by Jamie Adams, Wild Honey Pie stars Girls’ Jemima Kirke as Gillian, a struggling author whose decision to…
Apr 9 2017
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B+
Girls saved its biggest twist for next-to-last. The news of Hannah’s pregnancy was surprising, as well as her…
Apr 3 2017
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“What Will We Do This Time About Adam?” is an awkward title for an episode that provides such an elegant solution…
Mar 20 2017
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C+
“Full Disclosure” is one of the oddest, lumpiest half-hours Girls has ever turned out, an episode equally comprising…
Mar 13 2017
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B+
One of Lena Dunham’s strengths as a writer is her understanding of how weird and arbitrary people can be, and how…
Mar 6 2017
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B
Saying goodbye to Girls is difficult because it’s hard to imagine what the show’s finish line looks like. Hannah and…
Feb 19 2017
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A
As many recent essays and oral histories have argued, Girls has had an outsize influence on television that it…
Jun 9 2016
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Apr 18 2016
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For a show that prides itself on upending the conventions of television storytelling, Girls always manages to stick…
Apr 3 2016
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B+
“I’m sorry, I’ve been a little too busy Yelping divorce lawyers to worry about the sex lives of our second-tier…
Mar 13 2016
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B+
“I’ve wanted this for a really long time.”
“Me too.”
Mar 22 2015
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A
Girls has a peculiar rhythm that invariably makes its season finales feel like potential series finales. It’s common…
Mar 15 2015
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B
On a plot level, Girls can be incredibly difficult to evaluate because there’s a massive gap between what the…
Mar 8 2015
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For evidence of why “Tad & Loreen & Avi & Shanaz” is one of the best episodes of Girls’ fourth season, look no…
Mar 1 2015
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Lena Dunham frequently referred to Sex And The City when Girls first started, saying the characters in her show…
Feb 22 2015
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One of the earliest ideas presented in Girls is how traumatic it is to have an abortion. In the opening scene of the…
Feb 15 2015
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Under ideal circumstances, Hannah would have been in Iowa for two years. Two years. 24 months. 104 weeks. 730 days.…
Feb 8 2015
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Jan 25 2015
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B+
How is Girls supposed to end? “Female Author” provokes that question, from beginning to end, for all its characters.…
Jan 18 2015
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B-
“Triggering” is the episode of Girls I’ve been anticipating since “Two Plane Rides.” Since the last shot of the…