你知道什么是惊人的女孩们，on top of everything else? They stuck unwaveringly to their format for six seasons. There was, I think a ‘To Be Continued’, but mostly, even with ‘One Man’s Trash’ or ‘American Bitch’ they told the stories they had to tell in their HBO-allotted half-hour, and they never felt rushed—usually becauseGirlswas always freed from the convention of having to have a resolution to the problems of the episode.
The last two episodes, as a result, feel almost like a duet; two statements about being Hannah Horvath, or being, in the end, not Girls, but Girl. Or—as I’m sure she would correct me—Woman.
Hannah romanticizes friend groups throughout New York, mourning the passing of her own. Their last meeting, in a bathroom that smells like ‘pussy cream’ (…depilatory? Shoshischarmingly retro, so maybe), is ridiculous, underlining the idea that the group of them aren’t, anymore.
Much has been made of the idea that Hannah’s pregnancy is a bit of a ‘grow-up-quick’ device, and I understand why people feel that way. But to me, it’s much more clearly an endeavor in which nobody can follow. That is, you could conceivably be a first-year college instructor who met other first-years and make a bond and struggle through together. Being in the original cast ofWhite Men Can’t Jump: The Musicalis going to give you some all-in-the-boat together connections, too. But motherhood, no matter whether you have a partner or how many baby groups you go to or online forums you frequent, is lonely. Maybe even lonely necessarily.
我认为每个人都不需要孤独才能长大。我绝对认为不仅是父母的成年人。但Girlshas shown us, over and over again, that Hannah will make inappropriate attachments to justify her situation and lessen the fear – to avoid being alone. She entertains raising the baby with Adam, cajoles Elijah to sleep with her, agrees to let Marnie be her co-parent, even as she begins to recognize that the spooning and belly-cupping they engage in is more than a little inappropriate. For Hannah, the key to adulthood is doing something completely alone, without the cushion of friends to fall back on. Only by learning to communicate with a small, nonverbal vampire lizard does she realize she can do this on her own.
I liked having her mother and Marnie in the last episode, even though they’re talking about nothing… as everyone who has entertained even casual forays into the debate knows, breastfeeding and formula and pumping and the language surrounding all of them are completely fraught, and yet somehow totally beside the point in a blisteringly short period of time. But I liked having them around, and, even though I like to think I know this show a little, and though I tend to feel empathy for Marnie, I never saw that she was a reflection of Loreen until the show held the mirror up. I love that they can do that, even this close to the end.
不过，更重要的是，汉娜被两个人所包围，无论她的举止如何，无论好坏，他们都会爱她。她意识到（至少目前）每个人都有权享受自己的生活，而“每个人的F-CKING”都处于情感上的痛苦。实际上，也许那是人类的状况？最终，正是这种意识到，她意识到自己必须与Baby Grover一起独自一人。哪个…
Yes, of course I loved the name. Yes, absolutely it is a ‘real’, wearable baby name, and no, most people aren’t going to immediately associate it withGirls. If they do, well, you know they watched all the way through to the end. If they didn’t, or if they have something derisive to say…
It should be obvious by now that being popular was never the point.GIRLSstarted off being a lightning rod for critics, but when it became obvious that the show, itself, wasn’t going to change the way they showed characters being unlikable and selfish, wasn’t influenced by the sneering attitudes toward daring to reveal unretouched nude bodies, and didn’t have a vested interest in ‘fixing’ the problems that mainstream critics seemed to have… funny thing - people stopped talking about it.
This is, of course, because it was neverfor他们。我怀疑,在早期,之间的界限what Lena and her writers were saying and what Hannah was spouting, but as the show and the characters and their voices got stronger, the intent of the show and the outlook of Hannah’s worldview, and how it bumped up against Marnie’s or Adam’s or Jessa’s, got more and more clear, articulating the questions so many young women didn’t know they needed asked. As my friend Lauren said in a post about the show: ‘Thank you for getting me through my 20s’.
In fact, it may have been one of the first mainstream, critically-acclaimed shows that didn’t need to be for everyone (though I read a stat that a huge portion of the audience is men over 35). Relieved of the pressure of being popular, it didn’t try to speak to anyone except those who wanted to be there… and who found something familiar in Hannah and Jessa and Ray and Adam and the godless, tooth-gnashing conundrum that is Marnie Michaels. (I didn’t forget to include Shoshanna above, I just choose to believe she’s on a completely different plane and is generally flawless. Her Japan-centric story was one of my favourites, and though I think we left these characters where they were meant to be left, Iwould阅读由“兄弟” Shosh和Elijah主演的第7季漫画书中的漫画书，只是为了将其放到宇宙中。）
Long-running shows have devoted fandoms in part because we come to know and love the characters—butGirls总是把我们留在他们的外面，使汉娜和她的朋友永远无法预测，从来没有完全知道。这使更多不适，更令人不安（就像在倒数第二集中与卡罗琳的场景一样，这绝对会让您像这样那个针织的婴儿一样不错），最终，当它的美丽和清晰度时，更令人惊讶像经常这样做的那样，让您喘不过气来。许多节目甚至从未到过一次 - 莱纳·邓纳姆（Lena Dunham）和她的团队永远不会让我们变得太舒服，因此他们可以一次又一次地击中我们的生活。
