Girls Adventurous Women You know what’s amazing about Girls, on top of everything else? They stuck unwaveringly to their format for six seasons. There was, I think a ‘To Be Continued’, but mostly, even with ‘One Man’s Trash’ or ‘American Bitch’ they told the stories they had to tell in their By Duana • Apr 18, 2017 12:57 pm
Girls The Work of Girls I know the world needs less narcissism and not more. Still, indulge me for a second in thinking that the fact that I wasn’t able to watch the third episode of Girls season 6, “American Bitch”, until now is fortuitous, not unfortunate. The whole season has been rocketing along By Duana • Mar 07, 2017 03:41 pm
Girls I Would Love To Surprise Someone Sometime Girls Season 5 finale Episodes 9 and 10 recap First things first: My longing for Jenny Slate’s haircut. I wanted it when she first got it, snapped back to my senses, and this episode has renewed my love. Please know that I have forced my curly hair into submission By Duana • Apr 18, 2016 09:34 am
Girls Sake Gut Girls Season 5 Episode 8 recap Empathy, revulsion. Empathy, revulsion. It’s such a perfectly balanced equation—you can’t have Hannah or Marnie or even Jessa or Shoshanna without both in equal measure. Empathy, revulsion. Just when I’m feeling one, I cycle rapidly toward the other – more in By Duana • Apr 11, 2016 09:16 am
Girls The Dangers of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ Posters Girls Season 5 Episode 7 recap God, I love Ray so much. Do you think that he has a mansplaining monologue about the dangers of mansplaining? Because I know he does, and I really want to hear it. I will listen to him Deep Internet any day. Even though he By Duana • Apr 04, 2016 09:58 am
Girls Fairytale of New York Girls Season 5 Episode 6 recap Ohhhh, this was such a great episode. I knew as soon as Desi repeated “recoiled from my touch” that we were getting to the real truth of the thing, mainly that you can be way too much, like Marnie Michaels is, and still not By Duana • Mar 28, 2016 09:39 am
Girls Salt and a Monokini Girls Season 5 Episode 5 recap One of the reasons the scenes with Hannah’s parents have always been so good is that she doesn’t pretend when she’s with them. The ‘Brooklyn Hannah’ attitude that allows her to inform people about the conscious choices she’s making in By Duana • Mar 21, 2016 08:59 am
Girls Cruel To Be Kind Girls Season 5 Episode 4 recap The Girls of five years ago would have set this weeks’ relationships on fire and walked away. Their patience in the face of things not being easy (and really, when are things ever easy in a relationship?) is due to…maturity? Increased patience? Increased By Duana • Mar 14, 2016 09:23 am
Girls Growing Pain Girls Season 5 Episode 2 and 3 recap Let’s talk about how Girls is incorporating the realities of friends who correspond in a digital way much more naturally than almost any show on television. I don’t mean the bit about naked exes you keep in your phone, but By Duana • Mar 07, 2016 10:44 am
Girls Blame It On The Rain Girls Season 5 Episode 1 recap Here was my thought as I watched the season premiere of Girls: even knowing that Marnie was going to be ridiculous because = bride, I was surprised by how real everything felt. That is, each individual reaction isn’t that outsized. Yes, Marnie’s a By Duana • Feb 22, 2016 12:05 pm
Girls I Am Going To Be In Love With You Soon Girls Season 4 Episode 10 recap Everything is perfect, until it isn’t. I know how elementary it seems, but I appreciated how delicately Girls approached this theme in their season finale, which was mostly devoid of the guest stars who trod so heavily over this season, and kind of By Duana • Mar 23, 2015 09:17 am
Girls I do not feel sympathy for Jessa (which in itself feels wonderful) Girls Season 4 Episode 9 recap How could you feel sympathy for Jessa? You can’t! It’s glorious! In fact, maybe it’s a brilliant ploy on behalf of Dunham and Co. to make you see that you have to hate Adam – even though he was with Mimi-Rose who By Duana • Mar 16, 2015 08:47 am
Girls Twists Girls Season 4 Episode 8 recap I read something recently that said Lena Dunham hopes to leave the characters in Girls ‘better than we found them’, like a campsite. It’s not so unusual a concept, but on a show like this, that seems to revel in the continual return By Duana • Mar 09, 2015 10:40 am
Girls Of Course Names Matter Girls Season 4 Episode 7 recap Obviously they matter. Of course people need to know what other’s names are, of course you want to know their reactions to them. Hannah dates a guy named Fran. But I digress. Fran is completely endearing, isn’t he? I have absolutely no By Duana • Mar 02, 2015 09:29 am
Girls Those Who Can’t Do, Teach Girls Season 4 Episode 6 recap I thought that maybe last week was an anomaly, but now I know the truth – I want every episode of Girls to be about Adam and Mimi-Rose. I don’t know if this was the intent. I have no idea if Dunham & Co By Duana • Feb 25, 2015 11:53 am
Girls Reversion to the Mean Girls Season 4 Episode 5 recap Oh man. After the breezy openness that is Iowa, this episode is claustrophobic, empty of any oxygen, and kind of frantic and immobile at the same time. Every time Hannah opens the door someone else is there in her space – it feels like a By Duana • Feb 17, 2015 08:24 am
