GIRLS: "I Watch Stuff" S2 / E2 (review)

By Caitlyn Thompson

It’s been a day or two since Hannah (Lena Dunham)’s housewarming party and everyone is still bitching. Nothing happens. Things you think the characters will say, they say. George (Billy Morrissette) and Elijah (Andrew Rannells) attempt reconciliation after he admits to sleeping with Marnie (Allison Williams), Marnie whines about being pretty and unemployed, Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) and Ray (Alex Karpovsky) are blissful, and Hannah is still being less than grateful – didn’t we think she had grown slightly during her snooze to the end of the subway in last year’s finale? Guess not yet…

Tonight the show felt self-hating and arrogant at the same time. These characters were set up to grow and so far the plot has remained static and the dialogue stale.

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