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 …

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, …

Casting Notes: OitNB Kicks Larry to the Curb for Season 3(!!), Dunham Guests on ‘Scandal’ and much more

TV casting news from Scandal, Orange is the New Black, How to Get Away with Murder, Halt and Catch Fire and more featuring Lena Dunham, Jason Biggs, Rowan Atkinson and others

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 …

TV News: Weekly Recap (1/4 – 1/10)

The biggest news items from the last week including stories on Guillermo del Toro, Alex Gibney, Frank Sinatra, Roots, Matt Bomer, Montgomery Clift, George Clooney, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lena Dunham, Ted Danson, Patrick Wilson, Jean Smart, Nick Offerman, Brad Garret, Kieran Culkin, John Travolta, Ryan Murphy, OJ Simpson, Fargo, The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers, Girls