Girls Series Finale: How Did It All End?

It was about stumbling into adulthood and hoping, somehow, you make it to the other side.

Is there a possibility for a Girls season 7 someday on HBO? Where was the growth? The series opens with Hannah slurping up pasta, paid for by her parents, during the fateful dinner where she’s cut off from all financial assistance. More than Hannah’s suddenly manifested OCD, more than Marnie’s jarring metamorphosis from uptight gallerina to trainwreck musician, Hannah’s pregnancy - and now motherhood - has felt positively unnatural. It’s a line that her mother could have, and possibly has, said to her. And for now, here are 5 things you didn’t know about Girls. Marnie is always playing the do-gooder martyr and Hannah is always playing the perpetual screw up, Hannah forever unappreciative, Marnie perpetually unappreciated, Hannah the sloppy child, complaining from the backseat about the grown-up’s singing, Marnie the put-upon grown-up who won’t just tell Hannah that, yes, she is going into town to see some jazz trio.

Question: This is a really big year for you. Ultimately, the episode is about the ways that being a new mother drives you insane, a perspective that feels less authentically explored than it should be by now. It’s this moment that shows us why “Goodbye Tour” was not the series finale; without this scene (grating as the teen may have been), Hannah’s maturation would never have been realized. I’m not saying it’s always bad, but it’s stylistically stranded in an episode at its strongest in its heavier moments and character work. Hannah storms from the house in search, I can only imagine, of a life lesson. I didn’t have the fabulous tattoos.

“Well, I was never breastfed and I’m a dream and a ray of sunshine, so”. It was so firmly of a time I don’t know that it will age particularly well, and its ultimately pessimistic viewpoint doesn’t really make it ripe for repeated viewings. It’s easier to successfully swaddle a tiny body if your own wasn’t recently split in half by childbirth, and if you have a Marnie, she’ll make it look easy. Hannah headed in to tend to him, and the lights went down as Hannah finally breastfed her son.

“I just, you know, gotta eat”, Hannah explains. It’s also the type of completely self-unaware declaration typical of Hannah – a character that has inspired some love but plenty of hate since her introduction. If she ever does land a job in spite of flailing her way through an interview, you better believe that she’ll post a picture of her offer letter on Instagram as a humblebrag, and she’ll definitely include #soblessed.

Why She’s Terrible: Unlike Hannah’s in-your-face confidence, Marnie is insecure to a fascinating degree. She brings a draft of her book. “I love you the most”. So I think she’s going to be great. “Or at least a voice of a generation”. They hear Grover crying and everyone gets up to help, but Hannah says she’s got this. Case in point: She herself was breast fed for two years. But Loreen’s not here to bail Hannah out. “Coffee is for grown-ups”. Hannah Horvath is a new woman. And while she was the sentimental one who wanted to keep the group in tact, her actions – not really talking to Hannah in her time of need, among other things – proved otherwise. She has no job. The show’s plotlines, often controversial, winded around the subjects, weaving them into their respective paths.

Jessica: This was a really amusing episode, but I have so many doubts.

In the final episode of HBO’s Girls, Hannah Horvath and her mother, Loreen, get into an argument. And thanks to two dysfunctional but passionate relationships (with Hannah and Jessa), his next one will be his healthiest yet and turn him into the hipster Brooklyn dad he’s so ready to be. Hannah, of course, would never name a child something from the top baby names list. Only a classic Girls device-steering Hannah into a one-off encounter with a stranger-will do the trick. The big twist, for me, was that “Girls” left us with a message conspicuously unromantic and notably different from most TV comedies – that friends are not the answer.

Dunham: I was pretty focused on it, and everyone was like, “Okay”. This has always just been a show about people struggling to figure out who they are and how they fit into the world.

I’ve been watching “Girls” from the start. I had recently gotten out of a long-term relationship. After sitting through a domestic infant adoption informational meeting last week (as I personally have infertility problems), I can tell you the couples in that room with me would be happy to raise any of the 300,000-plus babies aborted by Planned Parenthood each year. When she flies out to help Hannah with her newborn, she’s not expecting the same bratty Hannah looking to renege on her biological deal.

I had huge expectations for Hannah this season.