Directed by Jamie Adams, Wild Honey Pie stars Girls’ Jemima Kirke as Gillian, a struggling author whose decision to…
Girls saved its biggest twist for next-to-last. The news of Hannah’s pregnancy was surprising, as well as her decision…
“What Will We Do This Time About Adam?” is an awkward title for an episode that provides such an elegant solution for…
“Full Disclosure” is one of the oddest, lumpiest half-hours Girls has ever turned out, an episode equally comprising…
One of Lena Dunham’s strengths as a writer is her understanding of how weird and arbitrary people can be, and how…
Saying goodbye to Girls is difficult because it’s hard to imagine what the show’s finish line looks like. Hannah and…
As many recent essays and oral histories have argued, Girls has had an outsize influence on television that it doesn’t…
For a show that prides itself on upending the conventions of television storytelling, Girls always manages to stick the…
“I’m sorry, I’ve been a little too busy Yelping divorce lawyers to worry about the sex lives of our second-tier…
“I’ve wanted this for a really long time.”
“Me too.”
Girls has a peculiar rhythm that invariably makes its season finales feel like potential series finales. It’s common…
On a plot level, Girls can be incredibly difficult to evaluate because there’s a massive gap between what the audience…
For evidence of why “Tad & Loreen & Avi & Shanaz” is one of the best episodes of Girls’ fourth season, look no further…
Lena Dunham frequently referred to Sex And The City when Girls first started, saying the characters in her show…
One of the earliest ideas presented in Girls is how traumatic it is to have an abortion. In the opening scene of the…
Under ideal circumstances, Hannah would have been in Iowa for two years. Two years. 24 months. 104 weeks. 730 days.…
How is Girls supposed to end? “Female Author” provokes that question, from beginning to end, for all its characters. Is…
“Triggering” is the episode of Girls I’ve been anticipating since “Two Plane Rides.” Since the last shot of the finale…
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