Girls Recap: Its About Time

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By RJ | Monday, January 14, 2013 | 5:11 pm | 9 Comments
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Hannah and Elijah decide to throw a party to celebrate their cohabitation. They want to do themed parties often, but all of Hannah’s themes revolve around food. Hannah revels in the fact that she won’t have a man with her at the party. Elijah is excited that everyone gets to meet his older boyfriend, George, who pays for everything. Shoshanna is using the party to prove that she isn’t hung up on Ray, as she assumes he will be coming.

“I lost my hymen, but I found this hat”

Once the party starts, it’s all downhill. Elijah’s boyfriend, George, gets drunk and calls everyone at the party boring. When he was their age, he was doing lines of coke off of twinks. Apparently that kind of lifestyle ultimately leads to drunkenly belting out karaoke before being escorted out of a party by Hannah, who casually leads him down the street before turning and running back into her building. Note to the producers: Lena Dunham running, while hysterical, isn’t a good look for her.

The only thing shittier than my writing career is my career as a party planner

Hannah gets called away because Adam is out of pain medication and needs her help. Being the pushover that she is, Hannah brings Adam what he needs but doesn’t stick around to spend time with him. It is all too real and raw for Hannah and she isn’t generous with the things Adam really needs- her attention and her time.

Shoshanna confronts Ray in front of the coats in Hannah’s bedroom and lets him know that she is over him. Then he takes her and kisses her. They’ve always portrayed Ray with an overabundance of confidence, which is a perfect foil for Shoshanna’s complete lack of confidence. If this wasn’t television (and technically its not television, its HBO) that would have never happened. Ray would have suffered from the same lack of confidence as Shoshanna. He would have turned and left that bedroom and went home to finish himself off.

Christopher is at the party with his new girlfriend, Audrey, who is more interested in who brought the pot than in paying any attention to her boyfriend. Christopher is that kind of sickening pussy, though. The kind of guy who waits for his girlfriend outside the bathroom. Those guys exist, but they never date girls as cute as Audrey. He may be the one character on this show who isn’t a total asshole, which explains why he’s a perpetual guest star instead of a regular.

Once the party has died down, we’re left with Marnie and Elijah together on the couch. I cringe briefly because I know where they’re going with this. Elijah starts talking about his latent bisexuality. He points out that there are two people which it is still okay to make fun of- bisexuals and Germans- and he’s both. Marnie is so hopeless and helpless that she’d sleep with anyone at this point. Marnie does the obvious “I could never be a gay man” speech because she doesn’t like giving blow jobs or anal sex. Funny, I hadn’t realized anyone had offered. Slut. Those are the kind of remarks that land you on the wall of a bathroom stall at the Port Authority. I’ve heard.

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I learned I was different in the third grade.  They would bring in our parents as tutors to help with difficult subjects like math, which is a testament to just how underfunded the California school system has always been.  Michael Weber's mother was tutoring me and one of my classmates in multiplication.  I did not care for the speed at which the lesson was progressing. 

I threw out a line from the most classic of movies, 'Back to the Future', when I simply stated "Let's see if these bastards can do 90!"  Michael Weber's mom was not impressed.

Its sad when the peak of your comedic career comes in the third grade, but I've never let that hinder me.  I still plug away at my boring day job while I dream of a day that I can tell the Michael Weber's moms of the world to suck it for not appreciating my sense of humor.

 

9 Comments

  1. 1
    Lo
    Posted January 14, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    Christopher Abbott’s character’s name is Charlie.

  2. 2
    RJ RJ
    Posted January 15, 2013 at 9:45 am

    Good catch. That was my mistake.

  3. 3
    Drit-er
    Posted January 15, 2013 at 10:30 am

    Thanks for the recap. This isn’t an easy one to do.
    Agree about the Seinfeld-esqueness of the show. Girls as the Millennial Sex and the City never jived with me, either. The only resemblance is four white chicks in NY looking for love in all the wrong places.
    Yet its appeal is something I can’t explain to myself. I grudgingly tune in, rejoice that I am well past all that 20-something nonsense, and alternately roll my eyes and shout out motherly advice to this little band of lost souls.
    There’s something about it though that keeps bringing me back. Maybe it’s the cringing honesty and awkwardness of it all.
    But what do I know? I loved Lisa Kudrow’s The Comeback.

  4. 4
    DM
    Posted January 15, 2013 at 12:17 pm

    For comparison’s sake, the show I see is an all female cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia set in Brooklyn instead of Philadelphia. The fast talking banter where all the characters just end up yelling over each other but it’s somehow hilarious, some of the hair brained schemes the main characters come up with, and hilarious portrayal of recreational crack use is what does it for me.

  5. 5
    annie annie
    Posted January 15, 2013 at 6:36 pm

    Thanks for the recap! I do like this show alot…..I hated the first few episodes, but then I re-watched them in a marathon session OnDemand. I am glad I gave it a second chance.

    This show reminds me so much of post college life: house parties in shitty apartments, meeting guys, avoiding guys, getting in petty fights with friends, weird wardrobes, and the awkwardness of becoming a true adult. It’s like what Sex and the City could have been without the $1000 shoes and $25 Cosmos.

    Lena Dunham gets alot of shit thrown her way, I just don’t get it. I feel she’s really ballsy and throws herself completely out there, which I can appreciate.

  6. 6
    badgerfreak
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 6:20 am

    I was happy to see Hannah stand up for herself against Adam’s newly confessed love. I despise so much about him that it was good for her to finally say, “I’m taking care of me now, instead of everyone else first.”
    I hope Chris O’Dowd’s American accent gets better, because oof, it is ROUGH right now.
    As a mid 20′s gal myself, even I look at these girls and roll my eyes. Then again, I’m from Milwaukee, not Manhattan. Maybe that has something to do with it.
    I loved Rita Wilson as Marnie’s Mom. She played it so well. There definitely are parents like that out there.
    I both hate and love the show. Either way, I tune in every Sunday to watch!

  7. 7
    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 8:37 am

    Great recap. So glad I’m not in my twenties.

  8. 8
    NotWithoutMyTV NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted January 18, 2013 at 6:01 am

    If you saw Lincoln, did you recognize Adam Driver as the White House telegraph officer? It took me a few minutes to figure out where the heck I knew him from.

    I, too, really wish the Sex and the Fucking City comparisons would end. I don’t find the shows to be at all alike, and it’s just an easy a comparison for lazy TV writers to make. That, and I get sucked into watching Girls (you always know whatever action Dunham’s characters are taking will end badly, but you want to be there to see what flavor of bad it turns out to be), and I couldn’t flee the room fast enough when that insipid Sex and the City theme music started playing. I think part of it is that although Girls isn’t always realistic, there ARE consequences to the character’s actions. The character of Carrie Bradshaw was always a complete asshole, and was generally rewarded with shoes and jobs and sex for BEING an asshole. Example: Carrie never had any discernable talent as a writer, but was a semi-famous columnist is a major-market newspaper; Hannah doesn’t seem to have developed much writing talent yet, and she’s chronically underemployed. One rings much truer than the other.

    Go, Lena Dunham! (And just show us Marnie’s boobs, already. This is getting redonkulous. What, is Brian William’s daughter the only one with an “implied nudity only” clause in her contract?)

  9. 9
    RJ RJ
    Posted January 18, 2013 at 10:40 am

    Now that there is a second person asking to see Marnie’s boobs, I’m going to start a We the People petition on the White House’s website. I’m sure thats what President Obama had in mind when he started the program. And no side boob either, real boobs for 5 seconds at least, or I’ll march on Washington.

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