The crew gallivants to Long Island for a stay at Marnie’s Mom’s friend’s house. Of course Marine wants everything to go perfect, but there’s always some forced melodrama because we’re talking about Girls, right? Girls Season 3 takes a vacation. Or, at least, that’s what Marnie wants us all to do.
In Which Elijah Needed A Reason To Return To The Show For Some Reason So They Picked Long Island
Random encounters in LI with your ex-roommate gay BFF is totally normal and happens all the time, right? Either way, it’s a great plot device to take a pretty boring girls’ weekend from the hands of Marnie and place it in the hands of flamboyance and an amazing guest spot from Danny Strong. (Jonathan from Buffy AND the screenwriter for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. Yeah, that blew my mind, too.) Hannah invites Elijah and his friends to the house they are staying in, where they skinny dip, drink, dance, and piss Marnie off because she wanted to ‘heal.’ All while they take up a good 15 minutes of guest spot time before leading to maybe the greatest piece of writing on Girls (we’ll get to that next). It’s a welcome vacation from the pattern the show had gotten into the last 3 episodes where something happens with Hannah, there are some subplots with the supporting characters, and then the show ends with something happening in Hannah and Adam’s apartment. While the guest spots seemed a little aimless, I guess I shouldn’t be complaining for the change of pace and scenery.
In Which Shoshanna Speaks The Truth and IT IS AMAZING
Shoshanna gets drunk and starts spitting the realness at everyone, and finally the four leads interact and call each other out on their shit. It is a glorious moment that makes me wonder if this really happens in groups of friends sometimes. (Mainly because I’m a dude, we’ll just bring up something stupid and be like: ‘Dude that was lame.’ and move on.) However, Shoshanna is the catalyst for this conversation calling Marine’s attempt at cooking duck a ‘used condom’ and frankly, breaking me down to almost the verge of tears from laughter. Seriously. I was laughing so hard at the fact that it took 7 episodes of buildup for a moment like this, but at least we got it.
The fact that they make up at the end slightly baffles me, but Hannah stating that she’s been on the Earth for 25 years and known Marnie for 8, so I guess that means something. It’s strange that girls get through things by cleaning. I mean the next morning, they clean the kitchen. That was their big healing. I’m all for some cigarettes, alcohol, and some bad decisions. But that’s just me.
On the other hand; Hannah slept in a too small bathing suit which I have been told by multiple girls is a major no-no in the downstairs department, and Jessa apparently really does hit on everything with a penis. This episode was also partly written by Judd Apatow, which makes up for his crappy one previously. It’s strange because even though I want this to be the start of a change in the dynamic for the characters on Girls; I’m afraid it won’t be. We’re in the back half of the season now, so I’m definitely crossing my fingers for major change after this episode.
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