Girls

Original author: HBO
                                    


The second season of Girls wrapped up with a happy ending after an emotional roller coaster lasting 12 episodes. OCD, human health, manipulation and irresponsibility were all themes deeply explored. Hannah was supposed to have learned a major life lesson: You can’t expect other people to take care of you, you have to take care of yourself. Your apartment isn’t going to clean itself, your Q-Tips won’t stop themselves from going too far into your head, you have to do the job you’re getting paid to do.  Hannah also fails to realize that no one is going to give her props for acting like a normal human and not whining 24/7 about her accomplishment of basic tasks. Instead, Hannah backslides and reaches out to the one person she still has left to push around – Adam. Her parents refuse to indulge her any longer, her editor isn’t going to coddle her, etc. etc. Where does this leave us? Adam’s sobriety is clearly at risk since he’s flirting with serious co-dependency. Hannah is at risk of losing her book deal and her sanity both. I foresee a trip to rehab or a move back home for one or both of them. It’s a shame Natalia couldn’t help Adam out of the hole he’s clearing digging himself into, but again, Adam is the only person who could do that for himself. And the rest of our crew? Jessa is MIA, which in a weird way is kind of the most mature decision she could have made at the time. She will likely drop in at a time where everyone else is SERIOUSLY coming unraveled in an echo reminiscent of the first season. She will likely bring hats and scarves and help Hanna/Shosh/Marnie out of their respective stormclouds. That takes us to Marnie. Marnie, oh Marnie. Marnie, while beautiful and elegant, is likely the most despicable of the characters on the show (and that includes Shosh who stepped out on her man). She’s on par with Hannah in terms of manipulation, emotional immaturity and laziness, but she tries to rest on her laurels of beauty, of which there are many. She says jump and Charlie says “How high” and just like that they’re back together. He’s ready to throw his (apparently extensive) app money at her and ride off into the sunset to have “brown babies.” This is just a disaster waiting to happen – if these two were ever to work out, there is arguably immeasurable personal growth that needs to happen. This takes us to Shoshanna and Ray.  These two are the most interesting. Ray’s Andy Kaufman vibe cannot be overstated. Shosh breaks it off with him citing his “directionlessness” but really, she wants to wear hair donuts and hold hands with lots of doormen. She’ll likely try and get him back next season but he may have moved on to bigger and better things – Hello GM of Bedsty Grumpy’s or whatever!! Le sigh. With an extended buy of 13 episodes last season there’s plenty of room for Dunham and crew to explore the highs and lows of these characters. And they’ll surely do so with the attention to florals, muted colors and mussed curls we’ve all come to know and…like?