1. 18 Mar


    “Even as Girls disappoints by implicitly endorsing the utterly toxic relationships of Hannah/Adam and Marnie/Charlie, it does something even more disappointing by putting so much emphasis on romantic relationships at all. Remember when Girls was about more than boys? What this episode lacks — and, on reflection, this season has lacked — is an emphasis on the relationships between the central four women. The episode doesn’t come close to passing the Bechdel Test, because the women don’t talk to each other at all, and it’s frustrating to watch Girls push the characters’ romantic entanglements to the forefront while it pushes the rest of their lives aside. Hannah’s crippling O.C.D. made it impossible for her to finish the book that would represent the culmination of her personal and professional dreams — but that’s okay, because Adam is there to scoop her into his arms! Marnie and Charlie have reached their “endpoint,” even though neither of them mentions her budding singing career — but that’s okay, because Charlie’s making enough money for both of them! And Shoshanna… what does Shoshanna do again? College student? Maybe we should actually find out what she’s studying sometime.” Scott Meslow really, really hated last night’s Girls finale

    “Even as Girls disappoints by implicitly endorsing the utterly toxic relationships of Hannah/Adam and Marnie/Charlie, it does something even more disappointing by putting so much emphasis on romantic relationships at all. Remember when Girls was about more than boys? What this episode lacks — and, on reflection, this season has lacked — is an emphasis on the relationships between the central four women. The episode doesn’t come close to passing the Bechdel Test, because the women don’t talk to each other at all, and it’s frustrating to watch Girls push the characters’ romantic entanglements to the forefront while it pushes the rest of their lives aside.

    Hannah’s crippling O.C.D. made it impossible for her to finish the book that would represent the culmination of her personal and professional dreams — but that’s okay, because Adam is there to scoop her into his arms! Marnie and Charlie have reached their “endpoint,” even though neither of them mentions her budding singing career — but that’s okay, because Charlie’s making enough money for both of them! And Shoshanna… what does Shoshanna do again? College student? Maybe we should actually find out what she’s studying sometime.”

    Scott Meslow really, really hated last night’s Girls finale

     

  2. 11 Feb


    “When Hannah leaves the brownstone — and, presumably, Joshua’s life — for good, she takes her trash out with her. Maybe there’s hope for her yet.” Last night’s episode of Girls was a weird one, but “also a brief (but major) step forward” for Hannah and the show, says Scott Meslow. Here’s his review.

    “When Hannah leaves the brownstone — and, presumably, Joshua’s life — for good, she takes her trash out with her. Maybe there’s hope for her yet.”

    Last night’s episode of Girls was a weird one, but “also a brief (but major) step forward” for Hannah and the show, says Scott Meslow. Here’s his review.

     

  3. 28 Jan


    Girls recap: Hannah the antihero — This week’s episode takes the series’ self-absorbed protagonist to a new low.  Girls has been laser-focused on Hannah this season, at the expense of characters like Jessa, Shoshanna, and even Adam, whose failure to show up in “Bad Friend” is particularly conspicuous after his arrest in last week’s episode. Hannah is a legitimately fascinating character — and certainly the most groundbreaking to emerge from Girls — but the show can sometimes feel as obsessed with Hannah as Hannah is obsessed with Hannah — and that’s not a good thing. Keep reading…

    Girls recap: Hannah the antihero — This week’s episode takes the series’ self-absorbed protagonist to a new low. 

    Girls has been laser-focused on Hannah this season, at the expense of characters like Jessa, Shoshanna, and even Adam, whose failure to show up in “Bad Friend” is particularly conspicuous after his arrest in last week’s episode. Hannah is a legitimately fascinating character — and certainly the most groundbreaking to emerge from Girls — but the show can sometimes feel as obsessed with Hannah as Hannah is obsessed with Hannah — and that’s not a good thing.

    Keep reading…