Girls Recap Season 2: Episode 2: "I Get Ideas"

This episode open with Adam singing some weird-assed song to Hannah and her and Elijah watches it and makes fun of it. They are afraid that he will kill himself at the end of the gmail "album" and decide not to watch it. Hannah is becoming even more unlikable than she was in the past.

She also breaks up with Sandy in the most passive aggressive manner she could think of. Sandy puts off reading her essay but finally breaks down and tells her what he really thinks of it. He says although it was well written nothing actually happens in it. So Hannah of course goes off on his Republicanism spouting some BS about gay rights and gun control. She also says that 2 out of 3 men on death row are black like Sandy should be concerned about that. Then he talks about how she has fetishized his blackness. She asks him for sex but he refuses her and she storms out. She is turning into a female Larry David.  Also that superficial look at the GOP is so twenty-something. I would have loved to hear why Sandy is a Republican and his parents are not. I bet that is just too high-brow for this show. In Hannah's world Republican=evil and that is that.

I think they seriously short-changed Donald Glover. There could have been some interesting arcs with race and politics that they could have explored with him but it was ignored. Instead he went from doting BF to evil Repug in just one episode. This is case-in-point of Dunhams poor development of certain characters. My money is on her not being able to write for a black Republican in anything other then a superficial way. So Hannah cuts him loose to spare her comically thin skin so Dunham doesn't have to write for such a character going forward.

Then she meets up with Marnie and attacks her by saying that at least she is "making clean money and not cashing in on her sexuality" which is rich when directed at someone that has paid her rent for months. Marnie is just trying anything she can including a "pretty person" job because it looks like museum curator is no longer a career choice. She is reeling and grasping for straws. Marnie's world has been turned upside down and Hannah can only dish out the judgement toward her career choice.


Finally Adam comes up to her apartment and uses her emergency key. It is very stalker-ish and creepy to not only show up unannounced but come in as well. Hannah dials 911 but hangs up when Adam comes close to her. They first lie to the cops but Adam shouts out his whole name and the cops check it. Sure enough he has unpaid parking tickets and a bench warrant for public urination. The cops take him away and Hannah yells after them half-heartedly while putting on her shoes. The line "I'll come with you if you tell me where you are going" sums up how crappy she is now.

The main takeaway is that Hannah has become quite the loathsome character. She is so thin-skinned and vindictive that people are hiding things from her. Marnie and Elija go all out to keep their sexual misadventure quiet to avoid her finding out. Elija casually tells his boyfriend/benefactor and they fight quite loudly. Hannah is of course oblivious trying to do some kind of online exercise program. I am certain that if Sandy said her essay was great and gave it some vague platitudes she would not have broken up with him Republican or not.

I wonder if Dunham wants us to hate Hannah so badly that we want to see bad things befall her. At least the other characters seem somewhat likeable so we aren't watching some totally bad show like Allen Gregory. Every character in that show was awful and you couldn't stomach them from week to week. Maybe we can go in for a "Girls without Hannah" cut like they did for Attack of the Clones that cut all scenes with Jar-Jar Binks in them.