It's been months since we got our first taste of Girls Season 6 by way of the teaser.

Now we're being treated to the first official trailer, and it's vintage Hannah Horvath.

Right off the bat, Hannah is obviously trying to get a job with a magazine and her selling point is that she doesn't give a sh*t about anything, but simultaneously has opinions on everything.

Does anybody else feel like she's writing about you? Because that hits so close to home it's almost frightening.

Hannah wants to write "stories that make people feel less alone" than she did and "make people laugh about the things in life that are painful."

That the upcoming frames show Hannah writing and some others reading, with her mother laughing, seems to indicate Hannah is successful at that endeavor.

Of course, there is more to this clip than Hannah, as we see Shosh looking at women and speaking about them in a way that indicates she's jealous of them, but almost perhaps interested.

Marnie is crying while Hannah assures her she's not giving up on her now after all the BS they've been through together.

And Jessa can be seen sharing her feelings about the judgment of her relationship with Adam in a very open space.

But still, this story is Hannah's, and it's hers that I want to see end well. She's the one who makes me laugh the loudest and speaks the most honestly through her ridiculous adventures.

So when she tells the gal there's no other story she'd rather write than the one about surfing, but to note she hates and thinks she's allergic to sand, and is super against sun, sunscreen, isn't into drinking water or watching people having fun.

That's our girl. 

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Girls Season 6 Episode 1 was, for the most part, par for the course – with one major exception. Hannah is now (finally and officially) a (reasonably) successful writer. In print!

The season premiere opened on the publication of Hannah's story about Jessa and Adam's relationship in the New York Times' Modern Love section. There's no doubt that this is a big deal for her career – it's a big deal for any writer, in real life, to land their work in the Times.

The Modern Love column – which is read by all of her family and friends (except, notably, Jessa) – managed to get her a meeting with an editor who assigns her a new story. One that's, predictably, completely wrong for her. But because she's Hannah, she does it anyway.

The editor is played by the always-amazing Chelsea Peretti (of Brooklyn Nine-Nine), who keeps up with Lena Dunham's twitchy Hannah energy perfectly. Their sole scene together in the diner is very brief, but I'm left hoping that she'll have a reason to turn up again this season.

I read Shailene Woodley likes to go to a private area, open her vagina, let the sun in, and that's how she gets her glow. So when she goes to, like, the Insurgent premiere, that's not makeup, that's sun in her pussy.

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As an aside, does anyone else think it's weird that Hannah is continuing to milk this Jessa/Adam thing for all it's worth? She even mentioned to the editor that it's what led to her breakthrough Moth monologue (an admittedly epic moment on the phenomenal Girls Season 5 Finale), which in turn led to the Modern Love column.

It definitely was not easy, and I definitely feel like I'm more of, like, a dumpling than a woman at this point.

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Her surf school story ended up being kind of a bust, as far as I can tell, so I'm starting to wonder if she's just a one-trick pony.

But though Hannah's jaunt out to Montauk likely wasn't the most useful trip professionally, it ended up being prime territory for some (possible) character development.

Riz Ahmed (of The Night Of, Rogue One, and The OA) appeared on the premiere in a one-off appearance as Paul-Louis, a stereotypically lackadaisical and sweetly dim surfer dude. His interactions with Hannah were completely hilarious, but also weirdly kind of legitimately heartwarming.

Anyone who watched The Night Of is fully aware of Ahmed's talent as an actor – his work on that show as Naz was incredible.

Having seen him in that role (and in other, serious roles) made it infinitely more amusing to watch him as Paul-Louis, a good-natured but sort of stupid guy who was ultimately a total mismatch for Hannah in more ways than one.

Hannah: Hey, if I order some more drinks and charge them to my magazine, would you want one?
Paul-Louis: Yeah. Thanks. I love drinking. But I'm cool, because I can drink a lot and not be an alcoholic.
Hannah: Very, very dope.
Paul-Louis: It's tricky, but...

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It was immediately obvious that Hannah was going to have a fling with Paul-Louis – that wasn't remotely surprising. But their brief courtship provided plenty of LOL-worthy moments, starting with Hannah flashing him (after not realizing she should've been wearing a bikini under her wetsuit) in their very first scene.

Also, Paul-Louis referring to the ocean as "the big blue medicine pill."

Paul-Louis: What's the cure for everything?
Hannah: Uh, penicillin?
Paul-Louis: Salt. Tears, sweat, the sea. Think about it. I call it the "big blue medicine pill."

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Cry-laughing forever about this.

But really, I don't think I've laughed as much at anything on this show as I did at Hannah and Paul-Louis getting down in that club.

Dunham is truly a master of physical comedy and her complete lack of embarrassment makes Hannah's awkward antics priceless.

Hannah spilling her bright-red drink all over herself when trying to drink it while dancing and gyrating, ass fully out, on the dance floor was almost as funny as Paul-Louis' bemused-but-intrigued reactions to her behavior.

Oh my god, I know him! He's my surf teacher! I'm gonna fuck him!

Hannah [to nobody]

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Hannah (and really all of Girls' girls) have a tendency to never really make legitimate character growths. They sure always seem as if they've matured, but it never quite sticks.

It's so much easier to love something than to hate it, don't you think? Love's the easiest thing in the world.

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So despite the fact that Paul-Louis' whole "love is easier than hate" shtick certainly seemed to have gotten through to Hannah on a base level, I'm not fully convinced she's going to carry that lesson back with her to the city. Much as she claims that she wants to disentangle herself from the "toxic people" (her friends) back home.

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Meanwhile, in the city with those "toxic people," the other major storyline of the premiere centered around Marnie and her relationships.

Mid-divorce, Marnie was understandably not interested in having a live-in boyfriend. Of course, being selfish as always, Marnie didn't really care that kicking Ray out of her apartment would leave him effectively homeless.

And because Marnie is insecure about Ray's history with Shoshanna, she also attempted to forbid him from staying with his ex. Ray and Marnie also called each other "baby" approximately 45,000 times in that one conversation, which was brilliantly annoying.

Alas, it doesn't seem that Marnie and Desi's divorce is going to stick. A combination of Marnie's insecurity and Desi's timely reassurances led to them having sex (right after they finished divvying up their assets, naturally). 

The circumstances that led to their hookup were pretty clear and completely in character for someone like Marnie.

First of all, just based on that quick snippet of Ray and Marnie having sex near the premiere's beginning, it's clear that they're not particularly sexually compatible. Marnie, it seems, just enjoys the fact that Ray is devoted to her and adores her.

Which he does... simply because she's so firmly "out of his league," physically. I don't get them as a couple. At all.

Second of all, they don't seem to be at all compatible on any level other than sexually either. The scene with Shosh, Ray, and Marnie, when Marnie came to bring Ray coffee while he was staying at Shosh's place, really drove that point home.

Shosh and Ray's conversation struck me as slightly out of character for Shoshanna (since when is she being pretentiously snarky about newspaper columnists?), but it made the point it needed to: Shosh and Ray are meant for each other.

Marnie now knows it. Ray might not know it yet, but he will soon enough.

That incompatibility with Ray, paired with her moment of self-doubt being alleviated when Desi passionately assured her that she was musically talented, led Marnie and Desi to have sex. Because Marnie is, at her base, an insecure little girl who needs constant reassurance. Sigh, Marnie.

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The premiere ended with Hannah begrudgingly having some growth, just as Marnie was backsliding in a major way.

Hannah initially wanted to remain behind in Montauk because she was captivated by Paul-Louis' relentlessly optimistic and care-free attitude, the polar opposite of her anxious, OCD-ridden self.

Of course, her idea of her life in Montauk, with Paul-Louis as her boyfriend, was a figment of her own imagination – it all came crashing down when he told her about his girlfriend and their open-relationship. Hannah had a picture of an easy beachside life, but that wasn't real at all.

Hannah, like Marnie, is constantly looking for things (and people) outside of her to complete and/or fix her. This season seems set up to find at least those two of the four main characters on a path to the realization that they need to be by themselves for a while.

I'd be shocked and disappointed if either of them wind up romantically involved with any guys at the end – it would seem to undercut the entire message of the series.

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Stray thoughts:

• ​Elijah throwing an orgy for the purposes of networking made me laugh out loud. Oh, how I love Elijah.

• Jessa and Adam appeared only briefly during the premiere, with Hannah's ex-BFF lounging around completely butt-naked in pure Jessa fashion. Their scene with Ray was hilarious, but mostly because of Ray's increasing discomfort at the idea of sleeping where Jessa's vagina currently was. Jessa and Adam, for their parts, were being incredibly obnoxious. Like, more so than usual.

• Despite all that, I still really enjoy Jessa and Adam two together. What the heck is wrong with me? Those two are just a perfect fit.

• Riz Ahmed raps in real life, so I loved that they threw in a quick bit of his rapping as Paul-Louis! (Also great: Hannah's pronouncement of "I'm going to f*ck him!" to literally no one, followed by a hard-cut to them making out.)

• Marnie grimacing in pain as Desi grabbed her chest while he cried about their divorce (right before they started having sex) was a small but incredibly funny moment.

• Three cheers for Nurse Laura, the no-bullshit Montauk surfing school nurse who wasn't at all there to coddle Hannah during her faux front arm injury. She was the real MVP of this premiere.

What did you think of "All I Ever Wanted"? Let us know by leaving a comment below, and remember that you can watch Girls online here at TV Fanatic anytime!

Has Hannah actually grown up and gained some self-awareness? 

Girls Season 6 Episode 2 appears to suggest that the impossible has, in fact, happened. With a disastrous trip upstate, Hannah lays out some harsh truths for Marnie.

Meanwhile, back in the city, Shosh has some realizations of her own about her relationship with Jessa and her friendships.

Some of Girls' best moments take place when said girls are out of the city, thrust into new and strange environments. This was the case for Hannah with the Girls Season 6 Premiere, when she was in Montauk for the majority of the season opener.

Similarly, "Hostage Situation" found Hannah reluctantly accompanying Marnie and Desi on their secret "jaunt" to Poughkeepsie. Fittingly, that was where Marnie and Desi's relationship reached its (hopefully) final breaking point.

The revelation that Desi is actually a drug addict was, in itself, not terribly surprising. Desi has always had a penchant for being an erratic weirdo – strange behavior and mannerisms, saying weird pseudo-enlightened bullshit, impulsiveness. 

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Desi is not a main character, so the fact of his addiction to Oxy was besides the point.

The major development here was that Marnie's head is shoved so far up her own behind that she didn't realize that her husband has been taking an exorbitant amount of painkillers for an entire year – the majority of their relationship.

It's a testament to how dramatically self-involved Marnie is. Everything is about her, all the time.

The Desi situation led to one of the series' best scenes to date: the conversation between Hannah and Marnie on the kitchen floor, after they teamed up to toss Desi out of the house.

Hannah: But seriously, Marnie, it can be pretty hard to have observations about other people when you're only thinking about yourself. I would know. And I'm not judging you, okay? I promise. I'm done with that. I'm done judging, I'm done being superior, I'm done acting like I know anything at all. None of us know fucking anything!
Marnie: We don't know shit, do we?
Hannah: Nope.

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This was, easily, the most self-aware and relatable that Hannah has ever been. And what's more, I honestly believed her when she promised that she would help Marnie get out of the terribly tangled situation she's found herself in.

Of course, Hannah has had "awakened" moments like this before when it seemed like her eyes had been opened. In many ways, Hannah is like a sponge, absorbing the characteristics of whatever notable new personality is in her midst.

This is all getting very Teen Witch-y, like when she goes into that store and gets the amulet.

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With "All I Ever Wanted," Hannah adopted Paul-Louis' laidback beach bum attitude. With "Hostage Situation," Hannah was clearly echoing much of the Poughkeepsie shop owner's chill attitude about "living her truth." The free tea set (that Hannah's "life depended on," according to the shop owner) clearly had an impact on our main character.

Speaking of the tea set – it felt very meaningful (and funny) that it was broken, mere hours after she'd gotten it, during the scuffle with a raging, pill-deprived Desi.

If this is the last we see of Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Desi, I'll miss him but be okay with it. He certainly went out on a high note. Literally and figuratively.

What is the meaning of this fucking cunt parade?!

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Moss-Bachrach is wonderful in this annoying, cliche hipster-musician role. He can also deliver absurd lines like the above, fully in character, without blinking an eye. And bonus: He inspired the show's single best description ever, courtesy of Hannah.

He looks like someone in the Pacific Northwest knit a man.

Hannah [about Desi]

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I laughed – nay, GUFFAWED – aloud at that line. It was so priceless and perfectly accurate.

As stressful and intense as the confrontation in the Poughkeepsie house was, it was played with a note of humor that made it one of the show's funniest moments ever.

Desi popping up in the window and Hannah screaming like a maniac? Hilarious. Lena Dunham looked like she was barely able to keep a straight face throughout all of it.

Meanwhile, back in the city, Shosh revisited her past by attending a networking event with Jessa and Elijah, and she took a good hard look at how much she'd changed from her Girls Season 1 self.

When we first met Shosh, she was extremely driven and on a set career path, attending NYU. Then, she became more and more drawn into Jessa's life and her friend circle. Now, we've come to find out that Shosh has turned Jessa into an emblem for all of her life failures.

Now, this isn't entirely fair on Shosh's part. Sure, Jessa was a bad influence on Shosh – that much is undeniable.

But Shosh is a grown woman, and it was her own choice to drift away from her friends. Just because she regrets her decision now that Rachel and Ziva have become successful business owners doesn't make it Jessa's fault.

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It was so, so uncomfortable watching Shosh attempt to suck up to her old friends when they were clearly cold and uninterested in hanging out with her again.

And there's much to be said about Jessa's faults, but she was completely on point about Shosh's two hideous ex-friends. Those girls are the worst.

Shosh, first of all, I can't believe that you ever hung out with those girls, they're awful. They're like Khloe Kardashian and Bethenny Frankel, if those women weren't amazing and total revolutionaries.

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Now that Jessa is entirely on her own and has been rejected by every one of her former friends, I'm curious to see how she'll deal. I'm also curious to see whether Hannah will truly be able to help Marnie attain the kind of growth and self-awareness that Hannah herself has apparently achieved.

Stray thoughts:

• Loved Elijah's "I survived the 3rd season of Ally McBeal" shirt.

• Also amazing: the fact that, during the entire conversation with Hannah in their apartment, Elijah was pantless and bare-assed.

• I'm not 100% sure about this, but during the nighttime drive to the Poughkeepsie house, were Desi and Marnie playing a cover of Marnie singing "Karma Police" by Radiohead? Such a classic Desi and Marnie move, if so. Also, Marnie's karma has hit hard, so it is super relevant.

• It was a minor plot point, but I love the fact that Hannah was writing an article about Staten Island's last remaining sex club. I'm enjoying these wonderfully bizarre writing assignments she's been getting.

• I'm not the biggest fan of Allison Williams' acting, but she can play the humor up in awkward sex scenes like a pro. Between her awkward and stale morning sex with Ray in the premiere and her pained but aggressive sex with Desi this time around – her facial expressions are hilarious.

• Shosh's GIGANTIC hoop earrings – seriously, an infant could use those things as a hula-hoop – gave me so extreme early-2000s flashbacks.

• We better get a Jessa-centric installment soon because at this point she's reaching peak-unbearableness. She was so insufferable on the premiere and with Shosh at the networking party.

• The score during the Desi-Marnie Poughkeepsie confrontation was wonderful and spooky.

• So now the secret is out about Desi and Marnie. Elijah, who was told by Hannah and instructed not to tell anyone, spilled the beans to Jessa and Shoshanna. I can't wait to see Ray's reaction and the fallout from that. Good riddance to Ray/Marnie (Rarnie?), my least favorite TV relationship possibly ever.

What did you think of "Hostage Situation"? Leave me a comment below with your thoughts. Remember that you can watch Girls online here at TV Fanatic anytime to relive the show's final season.

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In its final season, Girls doesn't seem to be slowing down at all with its string of incredibly strong installments.

Girls Season 6 Episode 3 was a tour de force, another of the show's brilliant "bottle episodes" constrained to one character and one location. It tackled the topics of sexual assault and sexism.

"American Bitch" was buoyed by great writing, great direction, and stunning performances by both Lena Dunham and guest star Matthew Rhys.

The concept and set-up of this half-hour was deceptively simple.

Hannah, after writing a takedown piece of author Chuck Palmer (a former literary hero of hers) for a "small feminist blog," was invited by Palmer himself to his apartment. He was hoping that they could hash out the allegations, and, clearly, he wanted to "prove" to her that they were untrue.

Of course, what actually happened was much, much darker and more complex, but that was the beauty of this installment and the strength of it.

The majority of "American Bitch" found Hannah and Palmer sparring, back and forth, essentially debating sexual dynamics and what the definition of "sexual assault" truly is (if such a thing can even be precisely defined).

What stood out the most, to me, was how consistently on point and intelligent Hannah was – for the first 75% of the runtime, anyway.

Chuck: I'm not perfect! But I'm not saying I'm perfect. I'm a horny motherfucker with the impulse control of a toddler.
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I can't recall another time Hannah has remained so articulate and clear in her arguments. She seemed the most like a real person (and not a cartoon caricature of a millennial) that we've ever seen her.

I had a strong feeling that I knew what was coming all along (and by "what," I definitely did mean "penis on Hannah's leg"), but the way "American Bitch" built to its shocking climactic scene was incredible.

Like Hannah, viewers entered this installment prepared to find Palmer as a one-note villain, an obvious sexual-assaulter and a Very Bad Man.

Instead, Rhys' considerable and natural charms (see also: The Americans) were employed to trick both Hannah and the audience into a false state of calm, before the ultimate denouement and the revelation of his true motives in asking Hannah to his apartment.

You're not a journalist, Hannah. You're a fucking writer.

Chuck

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Hannah, like us, clearly realized that something was off as Palmer began complimenting her more and more, for seemingly no reason. Even as he pretended to listen to her, it became clear that something was not quite right, culminating in him saying that he wanted to "prove" to Hannah that he thought she was more than "just a pretty face."

Palmer, like many men (and particularly many privileged white men who take said privilege for granted), was fully incapable of understanding the position that the women who accused him might have found themselves in.

His stubbornness – and his insistence that he was being unfairly castigated by the media – allowed a few incredible moments for a rightfully upset Hannah.

Last year, I'm at a warehouse party in Bushwick, and this dude comes up to me, and he's like 'Horvath! We went to middle school together. East Lansing!' And I'm like, 'Oh my god, remember how crazy Mr. Lasky's class was? He was basically trying to molest me.' You know what this kid said? He looks at me in the middle of this fucking party, like he's a judge, and goes, 'That's a very serious accusation, Hannah.' And he walked away. And there I am, and I'm just 11 again, and I'm just getting my fucking neck rubbed. Because that stuff never goes away.

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Hannah's monologue, detailing the inappropriate behavior she'd suffered at a male middle school teacher's hands when she was a child, was an enlightening character moment. It was also one of Dunham's best performances ever in this role.

What was most striking about this particular story was how realistic it felt. I really got the feeling – both from Dunham's strong performance and the story itself – that this was more Dunham than Hannah. The delivery of that story just felt so personal. I'm almost convinced it was adapted from Dunham's own life.

The penis-on-the-leg climactic scene was easy to see coming and yet still completely shocking. It managed to be both disturbing and hilarious, all at once. Perfectly Girls.

Oh my fucking god. Oh my fucking god. I touched your dick. You pulled your dick out, and I touched your dick! What the fuck... And now it's still out. You didn't even put it away! I can see your dick! It's right there!

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Rhys gave a glorious, wolfish, and legitimately scary grin when Hannah jumped up, horrified, after instinctively gripping his semi-erect penis for a few seconds. It was equal parts sexually salacious and "Haha, I got you."

It was clear, in retrospect, that this was what Palmer was building to all along. But Rhys did a phenomenal job of really making the accused author seem forthright and desperate to make Hannah see his innocence. The way he just flopped his penis out on her leg was wonderfully absurd.

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The two final scenes that capped "American Bitch" also lent the entire installment an air of absurdity.

Hannah being trapped in the apartment, listening to the daughter of this horrible man play the flute, was just awful and yet really funny.

A great, small detail was Hannah watching Palmer watching his daughter. That seemed like an acknowledgment that even a dog like Palmer was capable of truly loving his own daughter – nothing is so black and white.

Finally, the scene where Hannah left the apartment, only for a herd of other young women to flood into Palmer's apartment building, was so eerie and telling.

Hannah managed to get out of Palmer's grasp, but there are dozens of other women out there for him to manipulate. It also completely obliterated the idea that she was the only person he'd invited over to hash out his accusations – that was obviously just a line he fed her, to make her feel "special."

The irony, here, is that his manipulations were supposedly all in the name of purposely demonstrating exactly how someone could be manipulated into a sexual encounter.

The rub is that Palmer (and men like him) can't see how that's wrong. All he aimed to prove to Hannah is that, technically, it was all consensual. Hannah chose to get into bed with him and to (briefly) touch his penis.

"American Bitch" was directed by Richard Shepard, who has directed some of my all-time Girls favorites.

Other Shepard episodes include Girls Season 5 Episode 6 ("The Panic in Central Park," possibly the show's best), Girls Season 4 Episode 5, and, of course, Season 2's "One Man's Trash," the show's other phenomenal bottle episode that found Hannah spending a lot of time in the apartment of a random man. 

Stray thoughts:

• The small details in Palmer's apartment were fantastic. The honorary degree in the bathroom, his "I <3 Chuck" mug, the painting in his library – all were so subtle and perfectly chosen to convey his character. 

• Of course, because this is Girls, nothing was as straightforward as it seemed. There were certainly hints throughout that Hannah knew what would eventually happen with Palmer. She put on lipstick in the elevator and freshened up in Palmer's bathroom in two pointed moments. 

• Hannah's Philip Roth quip was also a great touch, and her anecdote about the rumored original title of his book lent this installment its great title.

Hannah: God, I hope someone writes a book about what a cunt I am someday.
Chuck: Do you?
Hannah: Yeah, obviously! What would be better than to ruin someone's life with your wanton sex appeal and icicle-sharp intellect? But I'm half-Jewish, so I don't really see that happening for me.

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• Such a Hannah quote.

What did you think of "American Bitch"? Leave us a comment with your thoughts below, and remember that you can watch Girls online anytime here at TV Fanatic to relive the show's final season.

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Things are finally kicking into high gear as Girls heads into the second half of its final season.

Girls Season 6 Episode 4 was a fairly standard installment of the series – until its final moments, when something huge and unexpected was revealed.

That's right, kids – Hannah Horvath is pregnant. And the father is Paul-Louis, the rapping surf instructor we (and Hannah) met on the Girls Season 6 Premiere.

And the person to deliver the big news was none other than Joshua, the hot doctor that Hannah once hooked up with way back on Girls Season 2 Episode 5, "One Man's Trash."

If there's one thing I love the most about Girls Season 6 so far, it's all of the callbacks to the show's earlier seasons.

I would never in a million years have expected to see Joshua, a relatively unimportant one-time guest star character, again. But his return didn't feel forced or intrusive. It was perfectly awkward and random, in pure Girls fashion.

Aside from the major pregnancy reveal in the final third of "Painful Evacuation," this was a pretty uneventful installment for Hannah. She was dealing with a painful UTI, which led her to the emergency room, and in turn led to her pregnancy revelation.

In a poignant parallel, "Painful Evacuation" opened on Hannah having a brief interview with Ode Montgomery, an acclaimed female author we've never seen before, who shared some pretty harsh views with Hannah about being a woman and a writer.

Hannah: Is being a woman and being a writer as hard as it seems?
Ode: Harder.

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Ode also didn't think too highly of motherhood as a concept and wasn't afraid to let Hannah know it.

I am not a mother, and there's a reason for that. Because childlessness is the natural state of the female author. Okay? Write that down, get used to it.

Ode

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I'm not sure we'll ever see Ode again, and I don't think that matters. She served her purpose, which was to be an unlikely harbinger (of sorts) of Hannah's pregnancy news.

Because how perfectly Hannah is it that hours after Ode shuts down motherhood, Hannah would find out she's going to be a mother herself?

I'm discussing this pregnancy as though Hannah will actually go through with it because she instantly shut down Joshua's assumption that she'd get an abortion.

In the promo for the upcoming Girls Season 6 Episode 5, we also see Hannah telling her mother that she's having a baby, which certainly makes it seem like it will really happen. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if Hannah does an eventual 180 and backs out of actually keeping her child.

It appears that, at the very least, Hannah is taking her pregnancy seriously and realizing that her other problems (like Jessa and Adam's relationship) are relatively miniscule in comparison. At least that's how it seemed, based on how she brushed past them when they ambushed her in the hallway to tell her about their movie idea.

Adam: This might be it. It explains everything about human nature. How, even with the best of intentions, we can't help but hurt each other. It's like a metaphor for war and corporations and religious strife. All that stuff!
Jessa: Oh my god. We might be a pair of goddamn geniuses.

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If there's one thing I'm not loving about this season, it's how unlikable Adam and Jessa have become together. They're the absolute worst, most narcissistic and self-absorbed versions of themselves as a couple.

And I say this as someone who found the storyline where they initially got together in Girls Season 5 to be very compelling. Well, I regret that tremendously now, because holy hell, are they obnoxious this season.

Adam walked off of the set of a movie directed by a European woman named Olatta, who he didn't see eye to eye with, creatively. That led to Jessa and Adam coming up with the idea to create a movie of their own, which, frankly, sounds like a terrible plan.

Adam and Jessa are way too manic (yes, probably clinically) to pull off self-producing a movie successfully. On top of that, their idea for the movie only seems profound to the two of them.

In reality, there's nothing particularly ground-breaking or interesting about a love triangle between three self-involved twenty-something white people living in Brooklyn. And I say this as a twenty-something white person living in Brooklyn.

It was unnecessary and frankly plain mean to camp out in front of Hannah's apartment to tell her about their glorious "cinematic plan" mere hours after they came up with it. It's obvious that Hannah is still in pain over the two of them being together, and yet they could clearly care less about her feelings.

Also, this line? –

Adam! I think I may have been a child sociopath. I mean, I've completely outgrown it, but I'm a miracle. I think I may have to write a term paper on me.

Jessa

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• Added: March 05, 2017

Yeah. Too on the nose. We get it, Jessa is pretty much a sociopath. Enough said about it.

Meanwhile, Marnie proved that Hannah's big speech to her on Girls Season 6 Episode 2 (about looking around and noticing things outside of herself) after Desi's cabin breakdown did not stick. At all.

Marnie is just as narcissistic and in denial as she's ever been. It made the scene between Marnie, Desi, and a guy I'm assuming is Desi's addiction therapist or sponsor, half rage-inducing and half hilarious.

I shut down? I gave up? Do you have any idea how hard this has been for me? I have bruises all over my body from the two-hour massages that I need to deal with the stress of your addiction.

Marnie

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• Added: March 05, 2017

Marnie may be completely self-involved and irritating, but Alison Williams plays the hell out of her deep lack of self-awareness. Desi and the therapist looking at her as she said this like, "WTF is wrong with this woman?" was absolutely priceless.

The therapist was right – Marnie's narcissism is detrimental to Desi's recovery. And as silly and goofy as Desi is, I legitimately believed him when he said he was trying to recover.

Marnie's refusal to see herself as at fault was infuriating and proves that these two will never make it work. All Marnie is concerned about is reuniting their band so she can continue pursuing her musical career. Yikes.

Meanwhile, Marnie is being the worst girlfriend ever to poor Ray, who has no idea that she's been seeing Desi and just wants to take her out for dumplings to catch up on their lives. Poor deluded dude.

They had some awkwardly lame and passionless sex to start off "Painful Evacuation," with Marnie faking an orgasm and following that up with a weirdo declaration of love about dying with Ray in the mouth of a lion.

I wanna die inside the mouth of a lion with you. And that way we can be together forever, even in the moment of our own death. Your death and my death.

Marnie

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I think Marnie is losing her marbles, and it's hilarious.

I'm very much looking forward to the end of Marnie and Ray's relationship. My greatest hope is that Ray dumps her spectacularly, when she least sees it coming.

Marnie doesn't deserve to be with anyone at this point – not until she curtails her raging narcissism and pulls her own pretty head out of her butt.

I suspect that Ray's realization about Marnie will come sooner rather than later, especially after the events of this installment. Ray witnessed a longtime customer Bobby die and felt guilty because he'd refused to listen to Bobby's story right before he croaked.

His ranting over that experience prompted Hermie, Ray's boss and a longtime Girls supporting character, to lay down some realness about Ray's life and the direction he was headed in.

Hermie: How long were we on the community board? Three months? Then you quietly retreated back to dating girls with six-packs and pretending death wasn't real. I'm worried about you Ray. You're smart – you've always been smart – but your priorities are cuckoo-bananas.
Ray: And what, you're some fucking golden example? You hate your wife, you hate your job. The only thing that gives you a glimmer of joy on this planet is recycling soda cans.
Hermie: It's free money!

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• Added: March 05, 2017

Of course, Hermie was 100% right. Ray was just coasting and not living up to his potential.

After an amusing one-sided conversation with Shosh, Ray came to the same conclusion and went to apologize to Hermie for his stubborness. Unfortunately, Ray was dealt a two-fer by death this week – he found Hermie seemingly dead in his home.

If I remember correctly, we learned a season or two ago that Hermie was ill, so his demise has been a long time coming. But it was still heartbreaking to see Ray's reaction to finding his longtime boss and friend that way.

This is definitely the event that will catapult Ray to start pulling his life together and making some big changes. Hopefully, the first of those will be cutting Marnie lose.

Stray thoughts:

• There was an extreme lack of Shoshanna. I really hope that she's not relegated to being Ray's listening ear/shoulder to cry on for the rest of the season. Shosh deserves a better and more complete ending than that.
• What the hell were Jessa and Adam on? The bedroom scene clearly made it seem like they were hopped up on something. Adam Driver and Jemima Kirke have undeniably explosive chemistry, but this season is really driving home how dangerously manic and destructive their relationship is. They feed off of one another's craziness in increasingly scary ways.
• That said, I don't see them being together much longer. Especially once they delve into making this movie and, I'm guessing, exploring more of Adam's past relationship with Hannah.
• Why in the heck hasn't Shoshanna told Ray about Marnie sleeping with Desi? She heard about it from Elijah, and she and Ray are clearly friends. Why would she allow him to remain in this destructive relationship? Makes no sense.

What did you think of "Painful Evacuation"? Share your thoughts by commenting below, and remember that you can watch Girls online anytime here at TV Fanatic to relive the show's final season!

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Hannah Horvath is going to be a mom.

But her brief foray into playing mom (to her own mom, no less) on Girls Season 6 Episode 5 didn't go so swimmingly.

After the game-changing reveal that Hannah is pregnant on Girls Season 6 Episode 4, "Gummies" made clear that Hannah's first thought to keep the baby isn't something that she'll just be changing her mind about on a whim. No, the latest installment of Girls made it undeniably obvious that Hannah is diving into this mom thing, head on.

Whether she'll be any good at it... well, that's another thing entirely.

Hannah's portion of "Gummies" centered around her mother Loreen's visit. Loreen, you'll recall, isn't in a great place in her personal life (what with the divorce and her recently-out gay ex-husband and all). But Loreen made big strides throughout Girls Season 5 in what provided a lovely subplot for Hannah's mom.

Unfortunately, hearing that she was going to be a grandmother was a definite mixed-bag for Loreen. And by "mixed bag," I mean she said things like this:

Every time I look at your baby, I will see my own death.

Loreen [to Hannah]

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• Added: March 13, 2017

On the flip side, when Hannah initially broke the news about her pregnancy (and her intention to keep the baby), Loreen was surprisingly supportive. Though, who knows – that might have just been the effect of her little baggie of pot gummies.

When the reality set in, during the very strong scene between Hannah and her mother in the laundromat, Loreen quickly became morose at the thought of being a solo grandparent (or, worse, competing with Hannah's father Tad and Tad's new partner).

Becky Ann Baker's appearances as Loreen Horvath are always a treat, and she played the complexity of Loreen's reaction to Hannah's life-changing news wonderfully.

Loreen's quickly darkening reaction to the baby news played a dual role in also getting Hannah into a quasi-mom role for a second. Loreen wandered off, and Hannah needed to track her down.

Hannah also enlisted the help of Elijah, in what wound up being a very funny Hannah-Elijah montage of their search through the city for Hannah's high as a kite, egg roll eating mother.

Hannah: Have you seen my mom?
Elijah: You lost Loreen?
Hannah: Elijah, she's high on pot gummies, okay? She left all my laundry on the stoop. Look, this is her dress! She could be being sex-trafficked for all I know!
Elijah: What is this, "The Muppets Take Manhattan"?

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• Added: March 12, 2017

It's hard to ignore the great parallels between this Hannah-Elijah adventure and Girls Season 2 Episode 3's cocaine-fueled bender.

Obviously, tonight's circumstances were a wee bit different, and that's the beauty of it – four years ago, Hannah and Elijah were doing drugs and partying. Now, Hannah's pregnant, and they're attempting to track down her mom like she's a lost (albeit high) toddler.

Andrew Rannells is pretty much always fantastic as Elijah (have I said this before? Maybe once, or twice, or a few hundred times...). But he was particularly awe-inspiring in Elijah's Chinese restaurant kitchen confrontation with Hannah, after high Loreen let slip the truth about Hannah's baby.

Elijah: Well, I wasn't planning on sharing an apartment with some boring, 27-year-old single mom.
Hannah: Well, I don't have to be boring! I could be a cool single mom. Like, you know, Lorelai Gilmore!

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• Added: March 12, 2017

Elijah said some truly vicious things to Hannah during their fight, and it made for a stunning scene between the two.

Of course Hannah had some "Object of My Affection"-type fantasy in mind, where she and Elijah would raise her baby together. Of course Elijah (who is far more interested in taking an excessive amount of Adderall and stalking their old Oberlin classmate on Facebook) would not be down for that at all.

The climax of their fight was Elijah passing harsh advance judgment on Hannah's mothering skills, clearly crushing her.

Elijah: You're not ready for this.
Hannah: No, you're not ready for this.
Elijah: I'm gonna say this to your face, 'cause no one else will have the guts to. You're gonna be a terrible mother.

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• Added: March 12, 2017

Lena Dunham isn't one of the ensemble's strongest actors, but she has steadily improved throughout Girls' six seasons. So far in Girls Season 6, in particular, she's turned in some excellent, subtly strong performances.

The quiet devastation breaking across her face when Elijah told her that she'd be a terrible moment was really phenomenal.

Elsewhere, Ray was struggling with Hermie's recent and unexpected death. Shosh, as expected, was there for him, making him laugh with her very Shoshanna take on death.

Shoshanna: Yeah, I literally hate death.
Ray: Yeah, well, it's right there, right in front of us, just patiently waiting to take us all.
Shoshanna: No. Not me.
Ray: No?
Shoshanna: Yeah, no, it's super random, but I'm just not gonna die, like, ever.
Ray [laughs]: Good. Good, 'cause I don't think I could handle that.

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• Added: March 12, 2017

The Ray-Shosh scene near the beginning was extremely brief but one of my favorite moments. 

At first, I was sure that the series would just end on most (if not all) of our main characters single. Now, though – they're just leaving so many breadcrumbs to an inevitable Ray and Shosh reunion.

I'm fully convinced that they're headed that way, or at the very least that we'll end the show with the hint of a reunion on the horizon. 

In a stunning (by which I mean, rage-inducing) contrast, Marnie was absolutely hideous to Ray in his hour of need. In true Marnie fashion, she couldn't get over her awkwardness, boredom, and uncomfortableness being in Hermie's old house long enough to be there for her supposed boyfriend.

As eyeroll-worthy as it was to listen to Marnie passive-aggressively feign excuses to leave, at the very least it seems to have led to an important breakthrough for Ray.

Ray: Or, alternatively, you could go, we could not meet up later, and instead, we could just break up.
Marnie: Wait, what?
Ray: I think we should break up.
Marnie: Ray, I think this might be the grief talking... and potentially also the asbestos.

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• Added: March 12, 2017

I'd be lying if I said I didn't basically stand up and cheer at that moment. Here's hoping the breakup sticks.

I'm not sure what the turning point was where it became clear that Marnie doesn't truly care for Ray – he's merely a convenient boyfriend-filler.

I do think that, when they first got together seasons back, it was borne out of their friendship. Very quickly, though, it became clear that they're not right for one another.

Which isn't even to mention the fact that Marnie's character has become so unbearable this season that she's hardly sympathetic at all.

So much for that apparent quasi-breakthrough with Hannah in Poughkeepsie on Girls Season 6 Episode 2!

I'm not a bad person, by the way.

Marnie [to Ray]

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• Added: March 12, 2017

Sure, Marnie. Whatever you say.

Meanwhile, over at Laird's apartment, yet another Girls relationship was nearing its death throes.

In a surprise to absolutely no one, Adam and Jessa's pretentious movie idea appears to have been ill-conceived. Not in the sense that it will be a bad movie.

Rather, it's drudging up some uncomfortable truths about Adam and Hannah's past relationship that Jessa was either in denial about or legitimately unaware of because of her deeply self-centered nature.

Adam: The scene is about the fact that these two people, while they have a very strong animalistic connection, they're ultimately only going to hurt each other. It's about the tragedy of realizing the relationship is too intense to survive.
Jessa: Adam, that's us. We're the intense ones. All you and Hannah ever did was sit around, watching those shows about when fat people do up their houses or whatever, or you ate Frito-Lays in bed. And then you met me, remember? And then you met me, and then we had a real connection, you had real feeling. And that's what this movie's about!

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Throughout the two scenes we watched Adam and Genevieve (the actress playing "Mira," a carbon-copy of early-Girls Hannah), it was clear that Jessa was uncomfortable. She was also deeply confused about why Adam was playing the scenes with such dramatic intensity and emotion.

In Jessa's eyes, Adam and Hannah's relationship was superficial, unimportant, and in some way not "real." According to Jessa, only her and Adam's relationship was real for Adam.

Given that all us Girls viewers were privvy to the entirety of Adam-Hannah for the show's first several seasons, we all know that's not the case. At all. Adam did truly love Hannah at one point. But as he said, the relationship wasn't made to last.

It seems that Jessa is only now becoming aware of that fact. And it's unlikely to be a pretty realization. I doubt their relationship will last much longer beyond it.

However, I don't see Adam and Hannah reuniting.

I'd like to think that Hannah really has achieved some measure of self-awareness and would realize that it would be a bad, unhealthy life choice. Particularly with a baby in the picture. Unless one or both of them fundamentally change as people between now and the series finale...

Finally, "Gummies" ended on a poignant and fitting moment between Hannah and Genevieve, an obvious emblem of Hannah's younger self and how Adam saw her.

Their scene was brief, but Genevieve imparted some (maybe) useful wisdom.

Jesus, don't worry about it. Kids are super easy. It's being an adult that's hard.

Genevieve [to Hannah]

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• Added: March 13, 2017

Yep, Hannah is totally going through with this pregnancy. For better or worse.

Stray thoughts:

• Laird met Genevieve and thought she might be his new soul mate. Because of course he did. He had a crush on Hannah for awhile, after all.
• Shosh needs more to do this season. I don't love the idea of her only popping up to support Ray. Doesn't she have a job?!
• Elijah mentioned that Hermie left everything to Ray. Will Ray actually go through with a socialist library? (Doubtful. Hopefully.)
• The Elijah-Hannah confrontation was so upsetting, but I'm hoping it will spur Elijah on to have some actual growth of his own as we head into the final half of the final season.
• Here's Hannah's Word document list of reasons why it's crazy to have a baby in all its glory, for posterity:

What did you think of "Gummies"? Share your thoughts by leaving a comment below. Remember that you can watch Girls online here at TV Fanatic anytime to relive the show's final season.

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There was a lot to love about Girls Season 6 Episode 6, but I was particularly thrilled with the long overdue confrontations between Hannah and (separately) Jessa and Adam.

In other good news, Elijah may have finally found an actual storyline!

"Full Disclosure" was a fitting title on two levels. On a surface level, it's the title of Adam's movie about his relationship with Hannah, a movie which is increasingly becoming important in the lives and character arcs of Adam, Jessa, and now Hannah.

But beyond that, "Full Disclosure" was relevant because it's literally what Hannah did – she fully disclosed the status of her pregnancy (and the fact that she's keeping the baby) to nearly all of the most important characters on the show, including her dad (and his partner Keith), Marnie, Adam, and Jessa.

At this point, the only two main characters who probably don't know are Ray and Shoshanna (unless they already heard it through the grapevine).

Much of what Hannah dealt with during this installment was the varying opinions of her friends, former friends, and family members regarding whether or not she should tell Paul-Louis about the baby. 

During the opening scene, Hannah revealed her big news to Marnie, who (naturally!) was so sure that she would top whatever Hannah's news was with her own news that Ray had dumped her. 

Marnie: Ray broke up with me. Can you believe it?
Hannah: Kind of, yeah. I mean, you're, like, a horrible cunt to him, so...

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I don't think I've ever clapped as hard at a line on Girls as I did when Hannah laid out the truth about how Marnie treats Ray like actual garbage, flatly telling her that it wasn't surprising he finally dumped her.

Nothing about their breakup was surprising – it was easily the most satisfying moment of Girls Season 6 Episode 5, and possibly of the season. (If you can't tell, I'm super not into Marnie's character this season.)

The fact that Marnie believed Ray should've just been happy that she was talking to him really encapsulated that relationship and what it was all about for her. 

Marnie simply wanted someone that she knew was way below her league (physically) that she could expect to put up with her nonsense and just be grateful that she's deigning to be their girlfriend. Blegh, Marnie.

Marnie continued to be the worst later on, when she and Desi had their confrontation at her mother's friend Sharva's birthday party, where they were set to perform.

You used to be a dream come true. This whole job used to be a dream come true. Now it is a bad dream come true.

Marnie [to Desi]

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• Added: March 19, 2017

Desi showed up high as a kite, making their performance a no-go. But more importantly, I legitimately felt for Desi. Dude may be a clown, but he's in obvious, serious pain. And Marnie could truly care less about it. These two are toxic for each other, and it's never been more apparent.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach really did a phenomenal job playing Desi at his absolute rock bottom, having relapsed and being confronted with the fact that he's only ever "pretended" to be things and masked his pain with drugs. Desi's monologue outside La Vue was stellar.

Desi: I'm not a musician, bella.
Marnie: You're not?
Desi: Never have been. I was just acting like one. Before that, I was just acting like being an actor. Before that, I was just acting like being a big game photographer. I'm always acting like I'm something, but now I'm, like, done.

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• Added: March 19, 2017

Marnie also hit rock bottom, being forced into performing in front of Sharva and her "squad" of New Jersey partiers with her not-very-talented mother as "The Michaels Sisters." It was cringeworthy and hilarious. Rita Wilson is a gem during all of her sporadic appearances as Marnie's mother Evie, who is just as self-involved and terrible as Marnie is.

Evie scatting once she ran out of the lyrics she knew? Absolutely hilarious.

As funny as it was, I can only hope that this finally marks some kind of turning point for Marnie. If we end the series without even a hint that she's turning the corner into being a hopefully significantly less insufferable person... Well, that'd be pretty bleak.

She even had to make Hannah's pregnancy all about her, while simultaneously hoisting all of the blame for her sham marriage to Desi from her shoulders onto her mom's.

You realize that you basically pushed me to get married, right? Because that only thing that ever mattered in our fucking household was male approval. And now I find myself on the wrong side of my 20s, without a steady job or a relationship. And Hannah is having a baby and I will need to be there for her. And you two are preventing me from becoming the godmother that I need to be.

Marnie

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• Added: March 19, 2017

God, Marnie is just the worst.

Meanwhile, Hannah made up with Elijah in record time in a wonderful scene that seriously warmed my heart.

Our kid's gonna have great skin and be the right kind of slutty.

Elijah

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• Added: March 19, 2017

I truly love Elijah's character, and he and Hannah have the best friendship of the many friendships on this show, in my opinion.

It's clear that they honestly care about one another, and I love how Andrew Rannells played the immediate regret Elijah felt once he realized he'd really hurt Hannah. And I believed him about wanting to be involved in her baby's life. I'm very much here for Uncle Elijah.

Elijah: To be clear, I'm not offering to pay for anything.
Hannah: Nothing?
Elijah: No.

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• Added: March 20, 2017

The most significant scene of this installment, for me, was Hannah's confrontation with Adam. Oh boy, was that a stellar scene. Hannah and Adam haven't shared a significant one-on-one like that in far too long.

It's definitely suspicious that Adam is so insistent on Hannah watching his movie, so fixated on confirming that their relationship meant as much to her as it did to him. It hints that there's something distinctly unresolved between the two, despite the appearance of Adam having moved on entirely with Jessa.

Adam: I need you to tell me if it's real. I made a movie about what we went through, okay? And I need you to tell me if I got it right. That my memories are your memories. You know, did I lie about anything? I want to know we felt the same things.
Hannah: I guarantee you we did not.

• Permalink: I guarantee you we did not.
• Added: March 19, 2017

If nothing else, it was clear that hearing Hannah is pregnant was an absolute gut punch to him. The entire sidewalk exchange was perfectly performed by Lena Dunham and Adam Driver. It was a great reminder of how electric these two are together, and why we kept watching them do this relationship dance for four full seasons.

Important side note: Adam does love children, remember? He and Jessa baby sat his niece when Caroline vanished back on Girls Season 5 Episode 8. Jessa was lousy with the baby, while Adam has been a natural ever since little "Sample" was born during the Girls Season 4 Finale.

Will a baby (even one that's not his) be the thing that draws Adam and Hannah back together? I feel like the cast and crew have given interviews that made the chances of this reunion seem nonexistent, but you never know...

The other powerhouse scene was the confrontation between Jessa and Hannah, which had been a long time coming.

Jessa was hurt that she had to find out about Hannah's pregnancy from Adam, which was bizarre. Hannah has made it pretty clear that she's done with Jessa after Jessa's obvious betrayal of their friendship and Hannah's trust. She's even done it in a completely non-dramatic way – simply cutting Jessa out.

Jessa, for whatever reason, can't accept that. She's still hung up on Hannah, and this hearkens way back to what she said to Adam during their explosive argument on the Girls Season 5 Finale:

Y'know, people hate me. I'm a hateable kind of person. I don't know why, I can't help it, maybe it's because I have a big ass and good hair but I know, I know that I have principles and one thing I don't do is steal people's boyfriends. But you ruin that. Don't you see that?! I'll never forgive you. I will NEVER forgive you for that. We could die in the same bed and I will never forgive you.

Jessa

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• Added: April 17, 2016

She can't deal with the fact that getting together with Adam meant she couldn't still also have Hannah. Because, let's be honest, Jessa is kind of a sociopath (hell, she said it herself!) and she truly can't conceive of why Hannah can so easily "erase" her and pretend she no longer exists.

Jessa: And, for the record, I am a sociopath. But you are a fucking psychopath. And it's so much worse. Everything that we did together happened, whether you want to believe it or not. Whether you want to remember it or not. And I am here and I know you. You can't just erase people. You can't just erase me. That's not how it works.
Hannah: I don't care anymore.
Jessa: Rest in peace.

• Permalink: Rest in peace.
• Added: March 20, 2017

It was a really excellent scene, with great work by both Dunham and Jemima Kirke. Even though I can't really sympathize with Jessa on any level at all. I'm completely Team Hannah on this one, as I assume most viewers are.

Finally, Hannah made the decision to reach out to Paul-Louis – meaning we'll be seeing Riz Ahmed once again next week! Yay!

Stray thoughts:

• Did you catch the subtle reference to Girls Season 6 Episode 3? Hannah remarked to Elijah that she wouldn't call her kid fat or allow a teacher to massage them, echoing the traumatic childhood event that she told skeevy Chuck Palmer about.

• Adam tried to convince Hannah that his movie would help her move on (aka, give them closure). And the movie is literally called "Full Dis:closure" (mind the colon). Oh so clever, Adam. And by clever, I do mean pretentious.

• I continue to love the ongoing gag that Marnie is so up her own ass that she consistently can't recognize when people are on drugs around her. Hannah brought that up to her on Girls Season 6 Episode 2 and Marnie's mom again mentioned it on "Full Disclosure" re: Desi.

• Where in the world is Shoshanna Shapiro? Honestly! There are only four episodes left, people!!

• The way Desi left La Vue (and left things with Marnie) has me concerned that he might actually die. Why am I worried about Desi?! I have no idea.

• I loved the brief but cute appearance of Hannah's father Tad and his partner Keith. I really like those two, they're adorable. I also liked that they bickered over Hannah's decision not to tell Paul-Louis about the baby.

• Finally, Elijah has gotten a storyline – he's going to be an actor (or at least attempt it). Fingers crossed this lasts and gives him something good to end the series on.

What did you think of "Full Disclosure"? Share your thoughts by commenting below. Remember that you can watch Girls online here at TV Fanatic anytime to relive the final season of Girls!

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Elijah reconnects with his dreams, Hannah reconnects with her baby's father, and Marnie reconnects with an inkling of self-awareness on Girls Season 6 Episode 7.

"The Bounce" was enjoyably Elijah-heavy, fulfilling all of my hopes from past reviews that we'd finally see Hannah's BFF get an actual arc to close out Girls Season 6 before the show's final bow.

The primary story followed Elijah's hilarious journey through auditioning for a role in the new musical "White Men Can't Jump" (based on the 1992 movie).

Of course, there isn't a "White Men Can't Jump" musical in real life (yet, anyway), but the potential for hilarity was spot-on with Andrew Rannells having to dribble-dance with basketballs.

It was easily the zaniest the show's ever been – they typically don't do that sort of borderline-slapstick humor, but it made me laugh out loud every time.

Particularly when he hit the other guy in the face with the basketball all cheerfully and when he anxiously shouted "Why?!!!" when another dude pulled off an impressive mood. So good.

Have I mentioned that Andrew Rannells is a national treasure? I'm so glad that Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner gave him the chance to unleash his full potential.

According to the post-credits "Inside the Episode," they'd been toying around with an Elijah-centric episode for a while. It was worth the wait.

Elijah seemed pretty confident going into his audition – at least until Dill showed up, looking for a place to hide out in the midst of his white-baby-buying scandal.

Corey Stoll was great as Elijah's apparent one-that-got-away on Girls Season 5. The scene where Elijah gave his impassioned love declaration only for Dill to dump him was heartbreaking and easily one of the series' strongest scenes ever.

I can't say I fully expected to see Dill ever again, but it fits with the final season's tendency to bring back key figures from our characters' pasts at crucial times in their lives, like Joshua being the one to break the pregnancy news to Hannah on Girls Season 6 Episode 4.

Dill was initially an impediment to Elijah, distracting him from his audition. In fact, Elijah almost bailed on it entirely. Until his "guardian angel" (/fellow auditioning actor) Athena Dante showed up.

Good dick is a prison.

Athena

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It seems pretty clear that Athena Dante is going places in the world, based purely off of her unflappable confident. She was amazing and had so many great oneliners.

Athena was the one who convinced Elijah to stay and audition and also to switch his audition song from a "Newsies" number to something more emotional and raw, something that fit the mental state Dill's sudden appearance had left him in – "Let Me Be Your Star" from the canceled NBC show Smash.

Elijah killed it, and it's what (in the end) landed him the next round audition in front of the producers. He's pretty much got the part.

While this was going on, back at the apartment, Dill sniped about the shitty place Elijah and Hannah lived in, complained about their lack of adult-appropriate food, and finally, was with Hannah when she broke down after Paul-Louis finally called back and had no interest in being a part of his child's life.

I have 14 Emmys. I know when someone's keeping a secret from me.

Dill

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Ironically (but not expectedly), though Hannah repeatedly claimed throughout Girls Season 6 Episode 6 that she would be glad if Paul-Louis wanted nothing to do with the baby, the truth was that the reality of her baby-daddy's nonchalance hit her hard.

Once again, Dunham pulled off an impressive and subtle performance, eyes filling up with tears as she spoke on the phone with Paul-Louis, whose only contribution to the baby thing was to suggest the name Grover, for a boy.

Yes, like the Sesame Street Muppet.

Dill spent approximately 45 seconds comforting Hannah as she cried before turning it around and making it about him, his sadness over his own father abandoning him, and his subsequent pushing aside of Elijah.

Despite the fact that Dill is a total narcissist (not, by any means, Marnie-level, but still pretty bad), the scene was actually very sweet. I think it's safe to say that Hannah and Dill have bonded.

Fingers crossed he doesn't steal her half-white baby!

It's not clear whether Dill will be sticking around. Elijah did invite Dill (and one of the eight pizzas Dill ordered) into his bedroom, where they had sex (and, presumably, ate pizza). But whether that means they're back together ~for real~ remains to be seen.

Meanwhile, the other major arc of "The Bounce" was Marnie's possible breakthrough (finally).

To be honest, there have been so many other times where it's seemed that Marnie had a legitimate breakthrough that I don't really trust that the moment with the no-bullshit pawnshop owner truly got through to her permanently.

I mean, if the Michaels Sisters disaster didn't get through to her on Girls Season 6 Episode 6, what possibly could?

But it sure seems like the pawnshop guy did.

So this is the most valuable thing I own. But I'm selling it because my freedom is more precious to me than a precious locket from the 1870s, so here goes. Wild Bill Hickock gave that to my great-great-grandmother. I come from a long line of women who choose terrible men, but that's ending now.

Marnie

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Marnie quickly spiraled after finding an eviction notice on her door (where Desi had apparently been paying the rest, despite not living there). She blamed everyone for her situation, from Desi (for not paying) to her mom (for lying to her about "precious family heirlooms" and refusing to give her money) to her dad (for also lying and abandoning their family). Everyone except herself.

With no stake in Marnie's life, and legitimately not caring about her, the pawnshop owner had no qualms whatsoever about setting Marnie straight with some major truth bombs.

The liar is you.

Pawnshop owner [to Marnie]

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The entire scene in the pawnshop was wonderful.

It ran the gamut from hilarious (Marnie's increasingly distraught and frustrated reactions when the pawnshop guy first breaks the news about her fake heirloom locket and then casually crushes her fake diamond – actually glass – earrings) to somber, when he finally pointed out that she was doing a lot of blaming.

Marnie left there having decided to pack up and move into her mom's house, as her mom had suggested earlier. She also called Desi to "let him off the hook" by telling him that she was aware that he owed her nothing.

It was a good moment for her. Still hate her, but an undoubtedly good moment nonetheless. 

Stray thoughts:

• I love the minor thread that Elijah and his Bendel's co-worker are the worst department store employees ever. They never actually help any customers, and in the opening scene, they literally just drape necklaces over each other.

• Another great minor moment: Elijah yelled at Hannah for saying "Hi Elijah Krantz" back to him when they practiced for his audition, saying the casting people don't speak back. That ended up being totally untrue.

• OF COURSE, Elijah at some point in the past let a homeless woman into their apartment. And OF COURSE "she was fun."

• "I'm a street baller." / "Of course you are." 

• You can really see Rannells trying not to break when Athena stared him right down in the eye while she was practicing her song.

• I'm now legitimately convinced that Desi is going to be dead by the end of this season. It seems like the perfect final straw that would really crack Marnie and get her to realize what a tool she's been.

• I can't believe how little of Shoshanna (and Ray!) there's been this season. The show is only three episodes away from the end! What have they even been up to?

What did you think of "The Bounce"? Share your thoughts by leaving a comment below, and remember that you can watch Girls online here at TV Fanatic anytime to relive the show's final season.

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It's safe to say that Girls Season 6 Episode 8 is one of my favorites out of the series' entire six-year run.

Unlike many other installments, the three separate plots of "What Will We Do This Time About Adam?" wove together perfectly, and I was equally invested in each of them. The lack of Marnie certainly didn't hurt things either.

The biggest development, as indicated by the title, was Adam's spur of the moment decision to break up with Jessa and reunite with Hannah. Say what now?

It was a drastic decision and seemingly out of left field – Adam was completely, 100% into Jessa for all of Girls Season 5 and had, by all appearances, forgotten all about Hannah. But looking at the show's most recent installments, it's not actually as random as it appears.

The biggest indicators, of course, would be all of the many times that Adam has brought up his love of babies. Clearly, Adam very much wants to be a dad – it makes sense that Hannah's single parent pregnancy would instigate this desire in him.

Also, filming Full Disclosure, the movie he and Jessa made about their torrid love triangle, it's clear that he must've felt nostalgic for what he and Hannah once had. 

That much was made clear when Adam and Jessa argued over the point of certain emotionally raw and loving scenes between Adam and his Hannah-character on Girls Season 6 Episode 5.

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For the first time, then, Jessa had to confront the fact that Adam's relationship with Hannah was real – which, I'm guessing, is why she didn't completely freak the eff out when Adam made his big announcement about breaking up with her to pursue a life with Hannah in the opening scene of the latest installment. It was somewhat expected.

The moment when Hannah told Adam that she was pregnant on Girls Season 6 Episode 6 was also a definite hint that this information changed something for Adam.

But regardless of whether or not this big move made sense in context for their characters, it felt truly real on an instinctual, human level. I'm guessing this will be a polarizing installment of the show, but personally, Hannah and Adam's day-long fall back into their old relationship – only older, wiser, more mature – was lovely and devastating.

Now, I was never a particular fan of the Hannah/Adam pairing. When they broke up, it was one of the most reasonable, rational, and realistic depictions of a relationship ending that I've ever seen on TV. Hannah refusing to reunite with Adam on Girls Season 4 Episode 10 will go down as one of the show's best, rawest scenes.

But Hannah and Adam have years of history between them. The way they fell back together so easily made so much sense and was realistic. Anyone who has ever briefly reunited with an ex can understand that initial, joyous rush.

Adam: I want to raise your child with you. I miss you and I miss being with you. And I thought I could move on, but hearing about the baby made me realize we don't have any more time to waste. Let me show you who I've become. I want to be there for you as you become a mother. I want to watch you blossom and love this baby more than anyone has ever loved a living thing. I don't want to be away from you any longer.
Hannah: I'm so confused.

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Best declaration of love ever, or best declaration of love ever?

For these two, it was even more intense because there was the idea of raising a baby and having a family together in the mix. That's some serious shit.

Again, many may have hated how rushed and over the top it all was, but I personally loved how quickly Hannah went from "WTF is going on" after hearing Adam's declaration to having sex and buying baby products with him.

It was equal parts hilarious, sweet, and pure fantasy. Even as it was happening, it was clear that everything was moving far too fast for it to be real and for it to last.

The first flicker that something was wrong came about when Hannah completely zoned out and stared at the picture of a baby and mom on a product while Adam was talking. Something was going through her head that wasn't yet clear.

The diner scene, the final moment between Hannah and Adam (perhaps for the rest of the series), was where it all fell apart.

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Devastating is the only way to describe their re-breakup. They moved swiftly from talking about getting a home together, joining a food co-op, and even getting married to awkwardly going their separate ways. And not even a word was spoken between them.

All it took was Hannah's quivering lip giving way to tears, sparking off Adam's crying, for the two to both realize that what they once had was gone. Or if not gone, at least that it wouldn't work for them anymore.

I love the idea that there wasn't some sudden, epic argument or that anything bad happened between them.

That's just the point – nothing was bad, no one did anything wrong. It just didn't work anymore. They don't fit together. For a day, they played house, but by that night they realized that's all that it was.

Jessa, meanwhile, tried to maintain her composure, shrugging off Adam breaking it off with her (in the most traumatic way possible, no less) to his face.

Jessa: You've gotta do what you've gotta do. I'm not a zookeeper.
Adam: Come the fuck on, there's something else in there. Will you just say it? Spit in my face. Punch me. What? Just do it.
Jessa: Why would I do that? You haven't done anything wrong.

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On the inside, of course, she was breaking apart. And it was heartbreaking to see.

Jessa went through all the motions of an erratic, pseudo-unhinged person going through an unexpected and emotionally devastating breakup.

First, she hilariously tried to switch her cable package ("elite channels"?!). Then, she scared poor Laird's baby. Finally, she found a random man at a bar and had bathroom sex with him in an effort to dull her pain.

As mentioned by the show's creators during the Inside the Episode post-show clip, this Jessa scene was a mirror image of her actions on Girls Season 1 Episode 2, when she had sex with the guy in a bar bathroom after confirming she wasn't pregnant.

Then, it was fun and sexy and free. Now, it's distressing and depressing.

It was no surprise that Jessa took Adam back with a small smile and absolutely zero hesitation when he showed up at her door that night.

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But I can't possibly imagine how this won't weigh heavily on their relationship or give Jessa serious doubts. I mean, what happened would be massively disturbing to any woman in her right mind, and not something they'd easily get over.

Jemima Kirke's acting was incredible. Despite the fact that Jessa has been far less than sympathetic for a while now, she really made me feel for the character's deep pain and abandonment. So while her taking Adam back doesn't quite logically make sense, it does make sense for Jessa as a character.

The final thread of this installment followed Ray, Shoshanna, and (surprisingly) Shosh's old boss, Abigail.

Abigail, you'll recall, is the boss (played by Aidy Bryant) who visited Shosh in Japan and fired her on Girls Season 5 Episode 3, eventually forcing Shosh to have to move back to the states.

While I was sad that their bonding ended up pushing Shosh to the wayside (and eventually out of this installment completely), I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Ray and Abigail's connection.

The scene where sweet, friendly Abigail taught Ray how to approach old people for the purposes of continuing Hermie's oral history project was so adorable.

That it ended on a first kiss, mid-carousel ride? Even more adorable.

Aidy Bryant was great in this role. Abigail and Ray may have initially seemed like a poor match, but someone like her (the complete counterpoint to someone self-involved like Marnie or someone completely neurotic like Shoshanna) ended up being exactly what he needs.

Is it weird that I'm already rooting for those two? So much for a Shosh/Ray reunion.

Also, this installment gave us Ray's single best line, ever:

Ray: My favorite show growing up was this obscure Russian cartoon about a tiny cup of borscht that had no father. The catchphrase was "Papa would be so hungry." Shaped me as a child.
Shoshanna: That explains so much.

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Stray thoughts:

• I've seen others speculating that Jessa throwing up shortly after Adam's departure – in the midst of attempting to order "elite channels" – means that Jessa herself is pregnant. I didn't think that at all. I myself am a person who has been so deeply upset in the past that I've spontaneously puked out of thin (non-pregnant) air, so my thinking's that it was just a visceral stress reaction.

• Despite the fact that it all ended so sadly, there were a number of absolutely lovely Hannah-Adam moments rolled into this installment. Hannah's confessions about her parenting fears and Adam's easy reassurance was a great one, as was Adam talking to Hannah's belly as she stroked his hair.

• As usual, Lena Dunham and Adam Driver have phenomenal chemistry together.

• Everything about Laird's offer to help Hannah raise her baby was so random but also so perfect and funny. He did have a crush on her for a long while after all.

• Elijah-ism of the Day:

Well, honey, of course you don’t feel good. It’s 127 degrees in here and we are poor, you've got a parasite growing inside you, and we’re probably both going to die of heatstroke at any minute. Oh god, we're going to die like those old people in Queens on NY1! I'm too pretty to go to a cooling station.

Elijah

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What did you think of "What Will We Do This Time About Adam"? Share your thoughts by leaving a comment below, and remember that you can watch Girls online here at TV Fanatic anytime to relive the show's final season.

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Can you believe that Girls Season 6 Episode 9 is the second-to-last episode of Girls ever? I think I'm in a little bit of denial.

That denial isn't because I think the show should continue on. Actually, it's wrapping up beautifully, and it's clear that tons of thought and care was put into bringing each character's storyline to its organic end. I'm just always sad when good TV takes its final bow – no matter how well it concludes.

"Goodbye Tour" found Hannah interviewing for (and then abruptly being offered) a teaching position at a small liberal arts college in Upstate New York.

I rolled my eyes pretty hard at that one. Hannah hasn't held a consistent job ever — her previous teaching gig went not-so-great and ended pretty quickly, if I remember correctly — so it's more than slightly unbelievable that an amazing teaching position (teaching kids about the internet?!) would just fall into her lap like this. Talk about a fantasy ending.

In retrospect, though, the disastrous jaunt to Poughkeepsie on Girls Season 6 Episode 2 turns out to have been a great piece of foreshadowing for where Hannah would end up.

Her conversation with the shop keeper who abandoned city life and "found herself" upstate takes on a much deeper meaning now that Hannah has paralleled that woman's choice.

As she made the rounds throughout the city she'd loved, hated, and loved-to-hate so much, Hannah checked in with various people who weighed in with their opinions on whether or not she should take the job and leave town.

Elijah, understandably, was heartbroken at the idea of his partner in crime up and leaving him behind. Earlier this season, the two had seemed to settle on the idea of raising Hannah's baby in their dinky little apartment. Now, Hannah will be doing it solo, and Elijah wasn't thrilled about it.

I just don't understand why you would want to leave New York, okay? That's like something your family makes you do when you're too deep into crack to stop them. It's not something that a young, vibrant, albeit pregnant, person does.

Elijah

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On the bright side, the resulting scene – where Elijah serenades Hannah from across the apartment with a very mournful version of Demi Lovato's "Cool for the Summer" – was lovely. A great, minor moment closing this chapter of their friendship.

Of course, Elijah probably won't remain too down in the dumps for long – as he sassily announced when he interrupted the girls' "group meeting" in Shosh's bathroom, he landed the lead in "White Men Can't Jump," making him a Broadway star on the rise.

I got it! I got the part in "White Men Can't Jump" the fucking musical spectacular, you feckless whores! Hannah, I will see you at home tomorrow roughly around noon when I'm done partying this out. Eat a dick!

Elijah

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Take that, you "feckless bitches."

Hannah even ran into Adam's sister Caroline, who abruptly returned to the city, reuniting with Laird and their baby.

That was a surprise reappearance that I didn't expect at all, given that we haven't seen Gaby Hoffmann on the show since Girls Season 5 Episode 2.

Though she was never a major character, it was great that her arc didn't get left dangling in the wind and that she managed to recover from what was apparently a mental break. Mostly because Laird deserves all the happiness in the world (even if it's not with Hannah...).

Caroline gave Hannah her unasked-for blessing to leave the city behind and take the job. Hannah's dad Tad and his partner Keith were equally supportive. But Hannah had a hard time reaching Marnie and Shoshanna for their advice – and, of course, she wasn't inclined to speak with Jessa about it.

Which made it all the more satisfying when the four main girls had their big breakthrough moment in the bathroom at Shosh's engagement party, realizing that they're not really friends anymore... and maybe never were.

With the help of Byron, who has completed all 12 steps of Al-Anon, I have come to realize how exhausting and narcissistic and ultimately boring this whole dynamic is. And I finally feel brave enough to create some distance for myself. If you guys happened to notice all of those really pretty girls out there who have, like, jobs and purses and nice personalities, those are now my friends. Not you guys. I think we should all just agree to call it.

Shoshanna

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The obvious parallel here was to Shosh's big, drunken speech on Girls Season 3 Episode 7, when she epically called everyone out with incisive (yet totally correct) insults at the beach house.

In this case, Shosh similarly put into words what everyone was thinking deep down – the friendships that the four had made with one another were not in any way, shape, or form healthy ones. And whether or not the other three were willing to admit it, Shosh had had enough and was ready to call time of death on their already-shaky bond.

Shosh's words made sense – and it equally made sense that she wouldn't invite Hannah to her engagement party, or even tell her about the fact that she was engaged.

Hannah: You had a party and you didn't invite me? I mean, this place is, like, at capacity.
Shoshanna: Yeah, I did. Which would be strange, except you're having a baby, and you neglected to tell me after you literally told everyone else on the face of the earth. So, I guess that just kind of says who we are to each other.

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It honestly hadn't even occurred to me that Hannah hadn't ever bothered to directly tell Shoshanna (or Ray, for that matter) about her pregnancy news, when pretty much everyone else found out very early on.

But it was ultimately realistic – people grow apart, and Hannah and Shosh were never particularly close to begin with. For Shosh, Hannah not telling her about the major life event she was going through was enough to put into context just how not-really-friends the two wound up.

I complained all season long about the lack of Shosh, but it was worth it for the awesomeness of the reveal that she wasn't around because she simply had better things to do, off-screen and out of the other girls' orbit – like make a ton of new friends and find a normal guy who seems like a great fiance.

Shosh has grown the most as a character since the early days of Girls Season 1, and "Goodbye Tour" perfectly represented that.

The party setpiece was wonderful because it provided several stand-out, major emotional breakthroughs. The forced "group meeting" in the bathroom, with Shosh telling it like it is, was one of them. But Hannah and Jessa's pseudo-reconciliation was arguably even better.

Jessa: I think it turns out that I wasn't as ready to help people as I thought. I just needed to take a long, hard look in the mirror, as my mother would say.
Hannah: What'd you see?
Jessa: A fucking bitch.

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It's not clear whether Hannah and Jessa will ever be friends again – and it's basically impossible for them to ever resume the friendship they once had – but the moment of clearing the air was extremely cathartic, much needed, and wonderfully acted.

Seriously, bravo to both Jemima Kirke and Lena Dunham for the realistic apology scene. Even the stilted, unfinished bits of dialogue as they both struggled to find the words to convey what they meant was beautifully organic and true to life.

It was also a nice touch that Jessa wound up being the first person to find out Hannah is having a boy (along with the audience) and to have her reassure her former friend that the kid would turn out alright.

Hannah: It's okay. It's okay. I mean, think about it. We were all just doing our best, so.
Jessa: Our best was awful.
Hannah: Worst best.

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Finally, the penultimate installment of the series closed on a montage of the four girls dancing at Shosh's engagement party – not quite together but not quite apart either – intercut with scenes of Hannah moving into her new house upstate.

This almost could have served as the series finale (with its sense of, well, finality), but of course we're going to meet Hannah's baby before the show is over.

Stray thoughts:

• Why on earth would Shoshanna invite Marnie to her engagement party? Jessa and Elijah I can sort of understand, but Marnie?
• On a similar note, why wasn't Ray at this party? Ray and Shosh have been pretty close as friends for a while now. What gives? Was Ray too busy with his new maybe-girlfriend Abigail?
• That shit conversation in the bathroom ("You're telling me every shit you've ever taken has been on a toilet?" / "Yes") perfectly encapsulated the difference between Marnie and Jessa.
• I'm so curious to see who will pop back up in the series finale. Girls Season 6 Episode 8 felt pretty final for Adam, and "Goodbye Tour" very well might have been Shosh's grand exit. Will the finale be 100% Hannah? I really hope not. I need to see at least a bit of all of the other characters – both major and minor – one last time, despite the fact that Hannah wlll (presumably) no longer be in the city.
• Still convinced Desi just up and died somewhere. Here's hoping we close the book on him too, before the end.
• Are we in for a time jump for the finale? The brief preview seemed to hint that we might be jumping forward in time.
• The conversation Hannah overheard in the shop from the two girls who were just moving in together was a really poignant, sweet moment.

What did you think of "Goodbye Tour"? Share your thoughts by commenting below, and remember that you can watch Girls online anytime here at TV Fanatic to relive the show's final season!

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