A wonderful high concept is compromised for another story of lonely people learning to connect.
The film quickly reveals that the only angle it’s interested in is the one that most sympathizes Gary Hart.
In the film’s best scenes, Jeff Grace displays a delicate understanding of various modes of male fragility.
The actor talks about the best and worst parts of being on a TV show like Girls.
The last few minutes of the episode are suffused with the potent mixture of love and bemusement.
The episode deals with several kinds of love: romantic, platonic, and that sparkly feeling somewhere in between.
The show’s minor characters leave vivid impressions while surfacing some truth about the major players.
The tectonic shifts in the inner lives of Girls’s main characters sometimes bring them back together.
This season has constructed situations for the characters that could hold steady after the series ends.
The theme of growing up, in fits and starts, is a through line in “Good Man.”
The season-five premiere of Girls is a microcosm of the series as a whole.
Criterion’s heavyweight disc is a major release for the label that may pass through the market square without much fanfare.
Throughout 7 Chinese Brothers, Bob Byington’s sense of humor is familiar and facile.
“Daddy Issues” is all about boundaries and how quickly they can dissolve.
Britni West yokes her experimental sequences with the hard reality of characters trying to figure things out.
Picking up immediately where last week’s episode left off, “Sit-In” an impeccably constructed tour de force.
As it fixates on a set of characters languishing in their current situations, the episode locates the genuine comfort that clichés can offer us.
The episode’s title is an acknowledgement of the agency wielded by the show’s core group of women.
One of the more consistent and admirable qualities of Girls is its messy, funny, and heartfelt depiction of relationships as fluid.
It more or less resolves the season’s narrative concerns while simultaneously reminding us that such convenient closure is ultimately an illusion.