MEAN and MASSIVE

Judd Apatow twitted earlier today that the new season of Girls may return to HBO already in January 2013. The successful HBO comedy, created by Lena Dunham, with Apatow one of the show’s EPs, has premiered in April this year. Such a strong announcment is based on knowledge. Perhaps the script for the second season [...]

Many great things happened on the season finale of Girls last night. The characters, you could tell, have learned a few things about themselves and about the world during the first season, and in the finale they brought this knowledge into practice. And if this doesn’t sound like much fun – just watch how Lena [...]

The first season of Girls is coming to an end next week, in an episode titled She Did. The finale episode will try to make some order in the mess that’s left after the big fight between Hannah and Marnie in this week’s episode. So in the finale we will see Marnie moving out of [...]

This week on HBO’s Girls we had enough drama that there was almost no need for funny sidekicks or subplots. Here’s my review of the penultimate episode of the first season, Leave Me Alone. Watch Leave Me Alnoe episode promo What just happened (episode summary): Hannah meets her old professor who invites her to do [...]

SEB: girls hbo s01e09 episode trailer, preview UPDATE: read the review for Leave Me Alone episode In next week’s episode of Girls, Hannah meets an ex-professor, who’s played by Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos, how great to see him here). Can he be a better boyfriend for Hannah, or will Adam survive a couple of episodes [...]

SEB: Girlss01e08 episode review What just happened (episode summary): Hannah and Adam are boyfriend-girlfriend now. The have their first real fight, and their first real make-up. Marnie and Jessa kiss on the too-expensive rug of a too-hard-working stranger. Where is Shosh? How it happened (the chatty TV critic): After that in the last episode Adam [...]

SEB: girls s01e08 episode trailer, preview Weirdos Need Girlfriends Too (don’t you love the episode titles in Girls?) is the eighth episode of the first season of Girls, which means we are almost at the finish line. With three episodes to go, it’s the relationship between Hannah and Adam, and Hannah and Marnie, that takes [...]

SEB: girls 1×7 episode review It was sweaty and thick in Bushwick this week, when the girls of Girls met for some partying. Hannah asks in the beginning of the episode – “how good can it be?”, and at the end it may be only Hannah that is really happy and kind of satisfied. Watch [...]

SEB: girls s01e07 episode trailer, preview In next week’s episode of Girls, Hannah is back in Brooklyn, and the party is on. And in this party, Hannah sees Adam like she neversaw him before…with a shirt on! An he looks funny because of the party light that makes his teeth look weird. And Shoshana smoked [...]

SEB: girls s01e06 episode review This week on HBO’s Girls Hannah went back for “Home-home”, to be with her parents on their anniversary.That was of course just a scripting tool to allow us, and Hannah herself, to see how it is back there – and to be her parents’ child for a stolen moment. Only [...]

SEB: girls hbo s01e06 episode trailer, preview Hannah is going back to her parents’ place, to celebrate their 30th anniversary. She meets old friends, that she never wanted to see again, and even causes a kind of a scandal. And there’s a naked man lying in her bathroom, and he’s not responding…Good to have mom [...]

SEB: girls s01e05 episode review Hard Being Easy comes halfway in the first season of Girls, and was a almost pure-fun episode. Besides maybe for Charlie, who was maybe not so happy to learn that he was, after all, right. The title seems to summerize well the plots of this episode – the old friend [...]

SEB: hbo girls s01e05 episode trailer, preview I gave you the episode’s plot summary a couple of days back (together with my episode recap of Hannah’s Diary), before HBO has released the weekly promo for Girls. The next episode, Hard Being Easy (love the title!) continues where we last left the girls – dealing with [...]

SEB: hbo girls s01e04 episode review Just by its name it was clear that this episode of Girls, Hannah’s Diary,  is going to start a snow ball that will go down until it will crash on the head of Hannah and her friends. Charlie didn’t mean to read Hannah’s journal, it was his friend who started [...]

SEB: girls hbo s01e04 episode trailer, preview Will Hannah’s Diary be the episode where Hannah finds out Adam is seeing another girl? Or will it be that episode where Shoshana finally loses her biggest ‘baggage’? And will it all matter when the content of Hannah’s journal is discovered? The promo for this week’s episode of [...]

With the title of this post tells you more or less everything you probably need to know about this renewal, I want to use the chance to remind you all how great Girls is, and how you must watch it. I’m not too excited about Veep myself, but let’s keep the good vibes. Here’s the [...]

SEB: s01e03 episode review It just keep getting better. Girls, I mean, not the lives of its characters. Hannah is getting some “news about her vagina” from her gynecologist, which sends her on a (very short and funny) journey through her present and past boyfriends: Adam and Elijah. And the best part of Hannah’s plot [...]

SEB: girls s01e02 episode review In the second episode of Girls, or Sluts (can’t believe I just wrote that, but it is half a quote from Vagina Panic) – it’s all about sex. How bad it is, how overrated it is (quote again), and how strange it is. Again, lucky us Girls is an HBO [...]

SEB: girls s01e01 The new HBO comedy Girls premiered last night. How was it? Good, most of the time. Real, most of the time, and pretty girly. The best moments of the premiere episode were, well, anything with Hannah (played by Lena Dunham) in it. And the guys – somehow whenever there’s a guy in [...]