Best Line: “NO!” — Shosh yelling at Hannah like a dog-trainer who dabbles in meth.
Spoilers: Last night’s episode of Girls started right where the last one left off. I’m cool with that, because if this season went any longer without telling us WTF was going on with Hannah and Adam I was gonna cut a bitch. It appears that Hannah left her apartment to Adam (or at least Adam thought so) and he is now sharing the place with his new GF, Mimi-Rose Howard AKA M.R.H., played by Gillian Jacobs from Community.
I don’t always feel bad for Hannah, but I got pangs of sadness for her when she was forced to look at Adam’s beautiful new girlfriend (who drinks cold-pressed juice, naturally) so soon after she realized they’d broke up. And clearly, Hannah didn’t take the break up as seriously as Adam did. At one point Hannah is all like, “You were in love with me a month ago!” But the thing that Adam and viewers get, is that he was seriously starting to want out of the relationship towards the end of last season.
I think Hannah romanticized her past relationship because she wanted to come back to New York and pick up where she left off before trying to do a hard thing in Iowa. By the end of this episode she understands that she and Adam are broken up for realsies, but not before being visited by nearly every cast member, giving viewers a chance to be reminded why we love and hate all those weirdos.
There is nothing I enjoy more than watching Shoshanna TCB and I loved how clinically and accurately she assured Hannah that her, Shosh, Jessa and/or Marnie are gonna make it. Although Marnie was late to show up to help Hannah, she actually put in good friendship work once she got there. Real friends bring food. It stung to hear Marnie ask Hannah, “Did you really think you and Adam were a forever couple?” but Marnie forced me to like her again because she went for the whole maybe-we’re-the-forever-couple-but-like-as-friends-chicks-before-dicks angle a la Sex and the City or Golden Girls (they used to watch that in season one, didn’t they?).
I can’t say this episode gave me the same feels about Jessa. I applauded from my couch when Hannah called Jessa a fucking bitch. I want Jessa to be something other than a fucking bitch, and sometimes it feels like she has this wise, long-view of life could might make her less of a shitty friend than she first appears, but it’s hard to look past her girl code crimes. Could she have waited a little longer to set Adam up with MRH? Would it have been that hard to let Hannah know before she was back in NY peeing in a small waste basket? Did she have to hit Hannah back in the face (even though it was funny)? I think not.
This week’s trivia: that very Wes Anderson-y ending scene in the storage space? The director used a mirror at the end of the hall to give the illusion that the hallway went on forever.
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