Coming off of its big win at TechCrunch Disrupt, Pied Piper is upping the ante in Season 2 of Silicon Valley, while the show itself is doubling down on dick jokes and cameos from real-life tech bigwigs. Richard and co. are now the toast…
After a long season of false starts into responsible adulthood, Hannah finally seems to be growing up. Girls‘ Season 4 finale, titled “Home Birth,” is an obvious metaphor for our typically immature protagonist’s coming of age. While Caroline is literally giving birth to her…
Hannah is an adult with a proper job. But as she readily admits in the final scene of Girls’ penultimate Season 4 episode, she’s “faking everything.” Just like Marnie, Shoshanna and Jessa. Just like everyone else. The problem with Hannah, though, is that she…
Hannah’s father has come out as gay. It’s a plot twist Girls seems to thrust at viewers without any forewarning, but in fact, the show actually laid the foundation for Tad Horvath’s (Peter Scolari) revelation way before he admits his preference for men. “Sometimes…
Girls returns to its roots in “Ask Me My Name,” reviving the honest emotions and devil-may-care atmosphere of earlier seasons that were sorely missed from a largely gloomy Season 4. Even better, the welcome change in tone is thanks to an unlikely duo: Hannah…
Adam is in unfamiliar territory. The white knight, “at his best when he’s nurturing the poor, the lost, the profoundly damaged,” according to loopy sister Caroline, is now dating a woman who is fiercely independent and dispassionate to the point of repression. Mimi-Rose Howard…
We have just witnessed a turning point for Hannah. In what was Girls‘ strongest episode so far this season — beautifully directed by Richard Shepard, who also helmed the poignant “One Man’s Trash” from Season 2 — our protagonist hits rock bottom. “Sit-in” marks…
After three seasons of ill-advised choices and poor decisions, it often feels like the girls of Girls are stuck in an endless loop of setbacks, with little or no progress being made in their lives. For this reason, it was refreshing to see Shoshanna…
Hannah Horvath is a modern antiheroine. She is selfish, narcissistic and insensitive. She displays self-absorption more often than self-awareness. She is frequently (and often bafflingly) unlikeable. Yet, I found myself rooting for Hannah in episode 3, “Female Author,” and relishing her epic takedown of…
Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas New York anymore. In episode 2 of Girls, Hannah has finally arrived in Iowa, the land of corn, cows and rolling hills. For both our protagonist and viewers at home, “Triggering” opens with a heady…