In the opening shot of Ruby Sparks, the title character played by Zoe Kazan emerges from the dreaming mind of Calvin (Paul Dano) like a shimmering desert mirage. And she lives up to her name, igniting his […]

Jesse (Andy Samberg) and Celeste (Rashida Jones) are a married couple who have been best friends since high school. They share a shorthand and an easy rapport that mimics the honeymoon phase of a budding […]

“Fuck, I’m crushed!!” Ah, helping a friend move… the agony, the joy (wait, what are the joyful parts again?), the awkward goodbye– this episode’s opening scene captures it perfectly. Marnie is moving out of the […]

When it appeared on the screen, I was convinced the name “Tally Schifrin” was a secret code – an anagram for something important Girls was trying to tell me: Elvis lives? I buried Paul? Eye cream really is a […]

This episode picks up where the last one left off: Rav and Jess’s flirtation is heating up (with one gorgeous, petite hurdle), Lennon’s dance studio is teeming with students, and now it’s Joe’s turn. He’s […]

When we left our heroes in episode 4, Jess and Len had just taken down a roomful of cougar hunters with some saucy dance moves and Rav’s flying fists of fury. It was quite a wait for episode 5, but after enjoying […]

Condoms, peanut butter, idyllic images of Adam’s childhood being projected on a ceiling – what’s wrong with this picture? Adam and Hannah are having the kind of cutesy-loving moment experienced by any normal […]

Oh BFF, it wasn’t meant to be like this. When I was assigned to recap your episodes I took the gig very seriously. By which I mean that I approached it with the utmost journalistic impartiality…peppered with […]

The episode opens on a shot of Jessa, Hannah, and Marnie on their way to a warehouse party in Bushwick. Jessa is almost carrying off a feathery get-up that’s half dying swan, half Tina Turner in Mad Max Beyond […]

Oh look, Hannah is taking out the garbage. Oops, no she’s traveling! With her clothes wrapped in plastic like a bag lady. She’s heading home to Michigan to see her parents, Loreen and Tad, on their anniversary […]

One of the first images we see in this episode is Charlie’s newly-shaved head. He stages a big reveal to his girlfriend Marnie – perhaps hoping it will (finally) turn her on? – but she is horrified and dismissive: […]

FADE IN: A dark and teeny apartment, NYC. I just watched a DVR of Jessica St. Clair’s appearance on Craig Ferguson (two hilarious tastes that…you get the idea.) I’ve already drained my first glass of Grü-V (my […]

It’s rare that a TV comedy feels like a success in its first episode, drawing you in with a strong point of view, Ginsu-sharp timing, and witty, genuine female characters. But the tide is turning: this season […]

I yelled a lot while watching this episode. Sometimes I was repeating a funny line to make sure my husband heard it (unnecessary but fun, since he’s sitting right next to me and has ears.) Other times it was to […]

As the episode opens, Lennon is working hard on a gift for Joe’s dad, Don (the always-charming J.K. Simmons.) He’s retiring and she got him a basketball autographed by Patrick Ewing with (wait for it) a handmade […]

We all remember Charlie and Ray’s dick move from the last episode, right? Good. So we’re caught up. What follows is straight out of Harriet the Spy, as Charlie and Marnie sit Hannah down and force her to read her […]

This episode is all about secrets: those that bind us, those we take pains to keep even from ourselves, and others that end up drenching us publicly in shame. In the Girls universe, some secrets are revealed with […]

Lena Dunham’s work can be polarizing; you either get it or you don’t. People tend to love it for its honesty and quirk or dismiss it as self-involved, art school fluff. Binary standards aside, I would define […]

This episode literally starts with a bang: Hannah and Adam are having sex and things are getting pretty intense. Well, intense for Adam anyway — he’s fantasizing out loud, something about Hannah being an underage […]