Tonight's episode of Girls was basically about all the consequences of our unheroines. Like pretty much every episode. "Hard Being Easy" was hard, in many ways, and I'm not talking about the sexy ways that Jon Snow experienced in tonight's episode of Game of Thrones.
We're watching Marnie have to deel with the fact that she was a huge dick (his words, not mine) to Charlie during their whole relationship. We see how these two crazy kids met in college, which is actually quite hysterical. I mean, hello bangs from 2007. What's most important is that Marnie knows how much of an asshole she's been (she's never been to his apartment?!) and yet, even knowing about her own shortcomings, it doesn't change the fact that she still doesn't actually love Charlie. Are we ready for Marmie the single girl?
Jessa was busy making someone else deal with the consequences which involves seducing her hipster ex-boyfriend and boffing him out the window. Oh and Shoshannah sees the whole thing. But sometimes the end game of being a bit of a slut is feeling like a champion? I guess sometimes people are truly unsmotable.
Ugh, but Hannah. I feel that basically every episode involves me going "Oh, Hannah. Hannah, Hannah, Hannah." She's a god damn mess, as usual, but this episode is worse than normal. I mean, she actually hits on her skeezy boss. No, not even hits on. She in turn, sexually harasses him. It goes terrible. "I am gross and so are you." she tells her boss. Then when he turns her down and STILL wants her to work for the company, she quits. I mean that part is probably the best decision she's ever made, immediately following the absolute worst. But of course, she cancells out any good will by going to see Adam. I don't understand that relationship and I don't want to.
Of course...then there's that scene. The completely WHAT and HUH and WHY scene of Adam jacking off while Hannah yells at him. It's kind of Shades of Grey but instead of being one of those things that mom's jerk off to, it's one of those things that makes us all go, "GEW." How could she just sit there and accept the fact that Adam is a huge freak who everybody hates? The fact that she actually gets turned on by it. Here we are reminded about the consequences of the folks like me, talking about the shows relatability. Sure, there's still a lot of moments that exist that make me cringe with empathy but here we're reminded that Hannah is a fictional character, someone tortured. She's not supposed to be the Lena Dunham that we all worship and admire. She's supposed to be a hot mess and we're starting to accept that.
SumOlogy: HPV isn't the only consequence of sex. There's also unsmotability, realization you don't love your boyfriend and quitting your office job.
Grade: B-
Songs in this episode:
"Infinity Guitars" -Sleigh Bells
"I Don't Love Anyone" -Belle and Sebastian
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