The finale of Girls was not very final. There could have been an episode the next day and we wouldn’t blink.

Sex and the City… we waited years to see Carrie with Big and then it happened. Where do you go after that? AJLT trashed the Big relationship and Miranda’s relationship with Steve after years of us rooting for them.

IMO the worst element of girls was season 5 & 6 making Elijah important. He’s a terrible boring character and I hope he doesn’t steal narrative real estate from our girls in season 7

I’m getting to know this guy, and we agreed to switch tv shows… he’s gonna watch 1 episode of Girls and i have to pick which one.
What episode would be best? My first thought was Panic in Central Park but i don’t know if he’d really understand it without the backstory.

If it helps, he did a ‘which girl are you’ quiz and got Ray.

Only just finished my first watchthrough recently, but I have a pretty clear idea in my head of where everyone would be 11 years later.

Hannah: Quit or got fired from her teaching job within a year of starting. Continued to balance jobs until she rushed into marriage with her next boyfriend because shes drowning. Got divorced. Now dating someone else (probably a guy, but it's not impossible Lena's ideas about her sexuality are wrong) and back to teaching at Grover's school. Surprisingly at peace.

Marnie: Has managed to get a pretty decent life together. New okay husband, okay job, maybe a kid or two. Absolutely miserable.

Shosh: Built exactly the life she always wanted and absolutely loved it for years. Extremely successful, amazing husband, wonderful friends. Puts on a bright smile every day now to hide how utterly bored and unsatisfying it is to have no more ladders left to climb and no more goals to check off.

Jessa: There needs to be an inciting incident to get everyone back together, and Jessa is the perfect hurricane to make that happen. After a decade of continuing to drift through life, she had a baby, she doesnt know who the father is, and since Adam died in some theater accident, the only person she thinks she can try to get to help her with it is Shosh, who proceeds to try and get rid of her by trying to get Hannah and Marnie to help her. Has not changed a bit.

I just love how innocent Marnie looks here after Loreen walked into her talking to the "pilot"

I think there will be a storyline where one of the girls struggles with being able to conceive. One of Lena Dunham's (many) strengths is she draws from real emotion and given her experiences I think that will be part of the storyline.

I wonder if Jessa will be pregnant and Sosh will have been struggling with her fertility. It draws a neat line to S1 and Jessa's 'abortion'. They need a reason for Sosh to come back in to Hannah's and perhaps Marnie's orbits with the way the final season ended. Or perhaps Marnie is struggling with it.

I really trust them with how they will do it if Lena Dunham decides to write about these issues.

Also if Adam Driver doesn't return (likely) it is much more true to real life. I don't think he would be part of their lives anymore.

I think Marnie would be on her 3rd marriage and doing tarot card reading sucking up to her upper class women clients just like her mom did and she still posts a lot of singing tiktoks w filters chasing virality. She’s an excellent godmother to hannahs child and a caring daughter.

Shoshanna would be mid level manager at a corporate firm which would make her feel superior relative to her family but still inferior to her husband’s peers. And she’s having an affair w a younger man. And she’s trying for an IVF.

Hannahs son has a gaming addiction and she’s also grieving the loss of her dad and visiting his boyfriend in newyork in one of the episodes. She also had a brief stint with buzzfeed and is now mildly twitter famous

Jessa has those NYC street interviews reels go viral but she doesnt care about it. After relapsing for the fourth time, she’s turned spiritual and surprisingly has an intact monogamous marriage w a pervy republican

Elijah does theatre workshops and continued dating older men with money. He’s a mildly successful actor and is considering botox soon

Ray has a coffee shop that organises weekly community meetings to talk about the state of the city. He’s divorced and still sleeps with college aged girls.

Doing a rewatch and one thing I appreciate about the character Adam is how he sticks up for Hannah.

Another character member such as Ray or even her good friends Shoshanna or Marnie will privately say to Adam how nobody else could ever put up with Hannah, but he does and why does he etc.

He doesn’t ever hesitate to say promptly and with simple conviction that he doesn’t see it that way and regardless she puts up with his shit too and that she is his best friend. End of.

A lot of characters like to talk down about Hannah, to her face or behind her back, and he doesn’t get aggro in her defence but instead calmly shut down that talk and make it clear he has her back.

I know they are also in a toxic relationship but I appreciate this element is all I’m saying. Who wouldn’t want someone to talk to others and feel about us like this, with our flaws and all? We all have our own bullshit afterall and some of us can be “a lot”. Myself included, I am sure.

Just scored this dress last night on Poshmark for $20. I’m wearing it to Halloween karaoke night at a place called Charlie’s Grill (the irony!)
Obviously I’m going to sing Stronger.
I’ll post the video here so everyone can catch the secondhand embarrassment at home. I hope I can make it as cringey as possible.
In other news I finally splurged and ordered this Marnie Michaels Apologist Mug I had been eyeing on Redbubble for 6 months.
GIRLS is back! I’m elated 💃🏻

i think the show has multi season joke execution and callbacks as good as arrested development. soooo many jokes and throwaway lines from season 1,2, and 3 get an excellent pay off in season 4,5 and 6.

obviously “your dad is gay” is an obvious one but i think expanding on that, having loreen seek comfort in elijah after tads coming out was really impactful and deliberate by the writers.

jessa also telling marnie she can’t spot a high person impacts marnie in various ways throughout the show, “the panic in central park” couldn’t have happened if marnie could tell charlie was high and her marriage with desi.

are there any other callbacks from the show you enjoy?