‘Girls’ ends its latest season as something of a revelation. Will Emmy respond to the emotional maturity the series offers in its fifth outing?
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The return of ‘Girls’ and ‘Togetherness’
Jalal reviews the return of two HBO dramedies, ‘Girls’ and ‘Togetherness.’ What direction is ‘Girls’ headed in now that they are in their late 20s? Does ‘Togetherness’ hold up to its excellent season one finale?
Lena Dunham Confirms the End of ‘Girls’
HBO’s controversial ‘Girls’ will end after its sixth season.
Trailer: ‘Girls’ Season Five Teases Change
Shosh is in Japan. Marnie’s getting married. Hannah has a new boyfriend. Jessa’s still mean. It’s ‘Girls’ fifth season.
Teaser: ‘Girls’ Season Five
HBO drops the Girls Season Five teaser featuring an inhibited and dancing Lena Dunham.
Girls ‘Home Birth’ Recap: New Birth Plans for Everyone!
With Caroline going into labor, Girls tackles the heavy topic of rebirth in its fourth season finale.
Girls ‘Daddy Issues’ Recap: Hannah Learns the Answer to ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’
This season of HBO’s Girls has been quite the roller coaster ride, from Iowa (remember that?!) to Mimi-Rose Howard (wish we could forget that) to Tad coming out of the closet (something Hannah wishes she could forget, especially with her father’s new role as “daddy”). After last week’s big revelation over the phone, Hannah finally …
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Girls Recap: Mimi-Rose Is Ready for Her Close-Up
“Close-Up” isn’t just the title of Marnie and Desi’s latest (terrible) song. It’s also an apt title for an episode that offers a closer look at the relationship between Adam and Mimi-Rose (Gillian Jacobs). The episode opens with the guitar strums of the Zombies’ “Can’t Nobody Love You” with shots of Mimi-Rose and Adam’s digs, …
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Review: ‘Girls’ Disses Male Literary Power, While Undermining Its Own
One of the things that’s perplexing about “Girls” is how they get their money. In last week’s episode, Elijah shows up out of nowhere in Iowa, kind of like one of those baseball players coming to life via a cornfield in Field of Dreams. This week, he’s made friends, is going to coffee shops, is …
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Girls: Welcome to Iowa! ‘Triggering’ Generates Sitcom Tropes (Something DeAugust Would NEVER Do)
When it comes to character development, fiction instructors will often tell students to think about what their characters do when they are alone. This will tell them a bit about personification. Appropriately enough, “Girls” attempted to do this in the second episode of its fourth season titled “Triggering,” where Hannah makes it to Iowa and …