A dramatic TV series about four young women in their twenties named Hannah, an aspiring writing; her best friend, Marnie; and the cousins Jessa and Shoshanna. This fourth season, witnesses the transition of Hannah to new condo she is able to pay its rents and living among her grad colleagues who do not like her works.
Girls still delivers other memorable moments, though. And not all of them are gag-inducing. Dunham has written some terrific scenes for herself, and she also rises to the occasion of acting them out.
If the show's four central relationships are going to devolve, we need new ones to replace them. Judging by how Hannah is faring at Iowa - well, I'm not optimistic.
It's the most unpredictable the show has been since it started, but that also comes with its own risks. I'm looking forward to seeing what the heck Girls becomes when it transitions into mid-twenties mode.
Excellent opener, but sensitive viewers may want to avert their gaze about eight minutes in during a comical/shocking kitchen encounter between Desi and Marnie. Enough said.
The show's sense of perceived reality is always on cue and it keeps it going when the show knows it's overtly pretentious and bitchy in tone. It's [a] good episode overall, but it didn't really give me anything to care about; not even Hannah.
Not to say Girls isn't still sharply written and gleefully gauche on occasion - I just wish this portrait of young, metropolitan America wasn't so grim.
