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Spoilers for last night’s Girls below: It’s an accomplishment, of some kind, that you could say that last night’s Girls was the most uncomfortable half-hour of television of the year, and you might not even necessarily be referring to the scene in which a character jams a Q-Tip into her ear canal. (The first time.) “On All Fours,” was a reminder that Girls is only a comedy when it wants to be, and it steered hard (and more successfully) into the dark turn that “It’s Back” took a week ago. It had some of the series’ strongest moments of the season, but it was inarguably tough on the eyes, and ears. Beginning with the subplots that were merely emotionally uncomfortable, Marnie’s stories, and to an extent Ray and Shoshanna’s, continued this season’s theme of seeing the show’s characters fall back into bad habits or turn progress into regression. I haven’t liked what this season has done with Marnie–almost as if Girls itself has taken Hannah’s side in their ugly breakup from last season, it’s seemed determined to give her a series of payback humiliations–but her attempt to turn Charlie’s business celebration into her own musical debut was as sympathy-inducing as it was cringe-making. (It was also, awkward as it was, the funniest sequence of the episode, particularly Charlie’s horrified whisper, “No.”) Charlie gives her what seems like an accurate diagnosis–that she’s lost and floundering–though I’m not sure that hooking back up again on top of his desk is the right prescription for either of them. From one diagnosis to another: Hannah’s OCD is now in full flush, and her deep-impact swabbing of her ear canal was by far harder to watch than anything I saw in last night’s Walking Dead. (I have often had to watch violent shows peeking between my fingers. This time, I watched Girls with my hands cupped over my ears.) What’s especially interesting—especially given where the episode ends—is what precipitated it: the specifically sexualized criticism of her e-book draft from her editor. In a show that
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Posted: March 11th, 2013
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