Girls Recap: Hannah and Marnie switch places, Adam becomes a boyfriend and this is why you should always delete your ex off Facebook
If LMFAO had songs about the kind of party we saw on last week’s Girls, we’d be more likely to buy their albums—and we’re not just talking about singing “girls, girls, girls” instead of “shots, shots, shots.” Can’t there be an off-kilter techno hit about a girl in sequins who runs through the streets in a heart-pounding panic, with a verse about a girl who sees a new side of the guy she likes and finally gets him to commit? We’d dance to that.
This week on Girls it’s all Magnum condoms, cinnamon raisin swirl peanut butter and home videos in bed for Hannah and Adam, while Marnie’s trying to tune out her roommate’s loud sex while agonizing over Facebook vacation pictures of Charlie and his new girlfriend. This is the least problem-strewn episode for Hannah, as she’s happy with Adam: there’s an ice cream truck parked outside of her house and they’re doing coupley things like jogging. Her only worry is taking a shower—at least we think that’s what she’s written on her hand? Shoshanna is M.I.A. (maybe not recovered from her crack use, or busy giving nonsexual massages on street corners to pay for more?) and Jessa, well, she’s looking for sympathy. But let’s see if she gets it or gives it…
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Girls Problem: Your ex hasn’t just moved on, he’s flooding Facebook with his happiness and you can’t do anything but stay home and obsess.
Charlie and Audrey went to Rome and are making wishes in fountains and posting about a bazillion photos online that are all Instagramed-out with different filters. (Who is taking all the couples ones? Because there seem to be too many for just asking random strangers or using a timer.) Marnie vents and Adam suggests she use this time to figure out what she wants and what her passions are. Great advice, but besides reading, Marnie has no interests. If she had answered honestly she would’ve said that what she really cares about is herself and that’s too time-consuming for other hobbies. Luckily, Jessa isn’t so deep and distracts Marnie with Hannah gossip and flattery. Over martinis, Jessa has another amazing declaration this episode: “Sex without breasts is creepy.”
Ten Years From Now: The only way Marnie and Jessa will still be close is if they marry brothers or end up on the same arts council, or some other sitcom-ish premise. This breakup with Charlie, however, will teach Marnie the importance of deleting your ex from Facebook for your own sanity, even if you plan to “stay friends.”
Girls Problem: Jessa has lost her job.
We don’t learn why Jessa was fired, but we can’t help but hold out hope that the story will be amazing if it ever comes out—especially if it’s filtered through Jessa’s distorted worldview.
Ten Years From Now: We’re sure this isn’t the first (or last) time Jessa’s been fired and she’ll have a vague story she tells people about how she was always getting fired from jobs when she was young because her bosses were too uptight.
Girls Problem: Watching your boyfriend self-destruct.
In the early stages of a relationship, there’s a delicate balance of awestruck fangirling over this new person you think is amazing and wanting to be an indispensable support system he can’t live without. When Adam freaks out on his producer and bails on the show, Hannah wants to help but is clearly concerned about rocking the boat and disrupting this tenuous happiness they’ve found. She treats him delicately but also gently pushes him in a way that makes us think she’s finally listening to him and getting a real sense of who he is and how he should be dealt with.
Ten Years From Now: We’ve seen glints of this reasonable and wise woman in Hannah’s conversations with Marnie about Charlie, but never have we seen it sustained for so long. There seemed to be real shades of adulthood in Hannah this episode, shades that we see getting deeper and more excellent in the next decade.
Girls Problem: Your friend forces you into being her wingwoman.
It’s clear that Marnie wants to bask in another guy’s attention, but Jessa didn’t sign up to be a third wheel. She rolls her eyes so hard at the bar we’re worried she’s having a seizure. But a bougie dude (played by beloved Chris O’Dowd from Bridesmaids) who calls the bathroom “the little boy’s room” is clearly not Jessa’s idea of an interesting person. His apartment is probably just the kind of place Marnie pictured herself to be living in with her husband at the age of 26, while it’s the kind place that Jessa sees as a sign of the apocalypse. When he puts on the Bryan Ferry song from 9 ½ Weeks (which, obvious much? In the movie, Kim Basinger works at a gallery and Mickey Rourke works in finance, just like Marnie and this dude) and lies down with Jessa and Marnie on the floor and starts rubbing their bodies, we literally leaned forward on the couch knowing something good was about to happen. (Aside: is Marnie pulling a Kate Middleton and wearing nude pantyhose?) We would not have predicted that Marnie and Jessa were going to make out—the wingwoman gets the girl! What Jessa said earlier about breasts is really taking on a second meaning now.
Ten Years From Now: Jessa will have forgotten about the make out but Marnie will tell her husband about it when their relationship needs spicing up.
Girls Problem: Your boyfriend is a ridiculous person.
This isn’t a problem for Hannah. But will it be a problem for us watching? Adam’s questionable behaviour gave us so much to talk about thus far, so now that Hannah isn’t agonizing over awkward Adam situations, what weirdness will she be getting herself into? We never really found Adam to be all that awful—besides the strange sexual stuff, he seemed to just be a bit aloof. Watching him with Tako at the party last week, you could tell he loves his friends, which is always the sign of a good person. In the past he seemed to just shrug and shut Hannah out when things got heavy, but tonight he seemed contrite about the peeing in the tub, and his grandiose gesture to the driver he screamed at makes him all the more like a “still waters that run deep” kind of guy.
Ten Years From Now: Have Hannah and Marnie switched places? Will Hannah now be the stable relationship girl while Marnie goes out and has awkward encounters with men? A decade from now will Hannah be living in a combo carpenter/writer’s loft with Adam while Marnie is still desperately trying to land a financier who’s into whatever the equivalent of mash-ups are then?
Girls airs Sundays at 10:30 p.m. on HBO Canada. Tune in for our recap next week where we’ll see Jessa and Marnie turn into thieves who go back to guys’ places, make out and then—while he’s cleaning up spilled wine—run off with his art collection.
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If LMFAO had songs about the kind of party we saw on last week's Girls, we’d be more likely to buy their albums---and we're not just talking about singing “girls, girls, girls” instead of “shots, shots, shots.” Can't there be an off-kilter techno hit about a girl in sequins who runs through the streets in a heart-pounding panic, with a verse about a girl who sees a new side of the guy she likes and finally gets him to commit? We’d dance to that.
This week on Girls it’s all Magnum condoms, cinnamon raisin swirl peanut butter and home videos in bed for Hannah and Adam, while Marnie's trying to tune out her roommate's loud sex while agonizing over Facebook vacation pictures of Charlie and his new girlfriend. This is the least problem-strewn episode for Hannah, as she’s happy with Adam: there’s an ice cream truck parked outside of her house and they're doing coupley things like jogging. Her only worry is taking a shower—at least we think that’s what she’s written on her hand? Shoshanna is M.I.A. (maybe not recovered from her crack use, or busy giving nonsexual massages on street corners to pay for more?) and Jessa, well, she’s looking for sympathy. But let’s see if she gets it or gives it…
Ready to reach your threshold and push past it? Read on! »
Girls Problem: Your ex hasn’t just moved on, he’s flooding Facebook with his happiness and you can’t do anything but stay home and obsess.
Charlie and Audrey went to Rome and are making wishes in fountains and posting about a bazillion photos online that are all Instagramed-out with different filters. (Who is taking all the couples ones? Because there seem to be too many for just asking random strangers or using a timer.) Marnie vents and Adam suggests she use this time to figure out what she wants and what her passions are. Great advice, but besides reading, Marnie has no interests. If she had answered honestly she would’ve said that what she really cares about is herself and that’s too time-consuming for other hobbies. Luckily, Jessa isn’t so deep and distracts Marnie with Hannah gossip and flattery. Over martinis, Jessa has another amazing declaration this episode: “Sex without breasts is creepy.”
Ten Years From Now: The only way Marnie and Jessa will still be close is if they marry brothers or end up on the same arts council, or some other sitcom-ish premise. This breakup with Charlie, however, will teach Marnie the importance of deleting your ex from Facebook for your own sanity, even if you plan to “stay friends.”
Girls Problem: Jessa has lost her job.
We don’t learn why Jessa was fired, but we can’t help but hold out hope that the story will be amazing if it ever comes out—especially if it’s filtered through Jessa’s distorted worldview.
Ten Years From Now: We’re sure this isn’t the first (or last) time Jessa’s been fired and she’ll have a vague story she tells people about how she was always getting fired from jobs when she was young because her bosses were too uptight.
Girls Problem: Watching your boyfriend self-destruct.
In the early stages of a relationship, there’s a delicate balance of awestruck fangirling over this new person you think is amazing and wanting to be an indispensable support system he can’t live without. When Adam freaks out on his producer and bails on the show, Hannah wants to help but is clearly concerned about rocking the boat and disrupting this tenuous happiness they’ve found. She treats him delicately but also gently pushes him in a way that makes us think she’s finally listening to him and getting a real sense of who he is and how he should be dealt with.
Ten Years From Now: We’ve seen glints of this reasonable and wise woman in Hannah's conversations with Marnie about Charlie, but never have we seen it sustained for so long. There seemed to be real shades of adulthood in Hannah this episode, shades that we see getting deeper and more excellent in the next decade.
Girls Problem: Your friend forces you into being her wingwoman.
It’s clear that Marnie wants to bask in another guy’s attention, but Jessa didn’t sign up to be a third wheel. She rolls her eyes so hard at the bar we’re worried she’s having a seizure. But a bougie dude (played by beloved Chris O’Dowd from Bridesmaids) who calls the bathroom “the little boy’s room” is clearly not Jessa’s idea of an interesting person. His apartment is probably just the kind of place Marnie pictured herself to be living in with her husband at the age of 26, while it’s the kind place that Jessa sees as a sign of the apocalypse. When he puts on the Bryan Ferry song from 9 ½ Weeks (which, obvious much? In the movie, Kim Basinger works at a gallery and Mickey Rourke works in finance, just like Marnie and this dude) and lies down with Jessa and Marnie on the floor and starts rubbing their bodies, we literally leaned forward on the couch knowing something good was about to happen. (Aside: is Marnie pulling a Kate Middleton and wearing nude pantyhose?) We would not have predicted that Marnie and Jessa were going to make out—the wingwoman gets the girl! What Jessa said earlier about breasts is really taking on a second meaning now.
Ten Years From Now: Jessa will have forgotten about the make out but Marnie will tell her husband about it when their relationship needs spicing up.
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Girls Problem: Your boyfriend is a ridiculous person.
This isn’t a problem for Hannah. But will it be a problem for us watching? Adam's questionable behaviour gave us so much to talk about thus far, so now that Hannah isn’t agonizing over awkward Adam situations, what weirdness will she be getting herself into? We never really found Adam to be all that awful—besides the strange sexual stuff, he seemed to just be a bit aloof. Watching him with Tako at the party last week, you could tell he loves his friends, which is always the sign of a good person. In the past he seemed to just shrug and shut Hannah out when things got heavy, but tonight he seemed contrite about the peeing in the tub, and his grandiose gesture to the driver he screamed at makes him all the more like a “still waters that run deep” kind of guy.
Ten Years From Now: Have Hannah and Marnie switched places? Will Hannah now be the stable relationship girl while Marnie goes out and has awkward encounters with men? A decade from now will Hannah be living in a combo carpenter/writer’s loft with Adam while Marnie is still desperately trying to land a financier who’s into whatever the equivalent of mash-ups are then?
Girls airs Sundays at 10:30 p.m. on HBO Canada. Tune in for our recap next week where we’ll see Jessa and Marnie turn into thieves who go back to guys’ places, make out and then—while he’s cleaning up spilled wine—run off with his art collection.
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