Girls (HBO) TV Show • Page 8

Gotta agree it was a weird ending, but definitely disagree with it being Apatow-esque, or the idea that being Apatow-esque is a bad thing

 

Wish I liked that final episode more.

 

I liked it as a normal episode, or season finale, but not sure about series finale. It felt like last week's was a more natural way for it to end. I mean this episode just told us that things are really scary for Hannah, and Hannah is still the same Hannah she has always been, but there's a faint glimmer that things may turn out ok. Which is where we were at the end of episode 9, no?

Also I feel like Hannah/Elijah deserved more resolution as they were ultimately super close throughout the show (and because I love Elijah). I guess it all feels open to carrying on the story with a movie a few years down the line (or better yet an Elijah spinoff), and I'd enjoy that a lot.

 

It has that stealth Apatow conservatism. An entire series about young women developing themselves independent of the classical routes of marriage and early motherhood, and then it ends with the most free-spirited character becoming a mother and learning to like it. The scene where Hannah realizes she is talking about herself when she is yelling at the teenager is a bad trope.

 

Episode 9 would have been a great ending. Its a shame too because I thought this season was a nice rebound. This was a struggle to watch.

Can we talk about the acting of the girl Hannah found at the side of the road? Seriously, its the season finale, you can't cast that better? It felt like I was watching a 35 year old SNL actress playing an exaggerated teenager is a skit.

 

He was the one who came up with the "latching" plot according to the Inside The Episode. So you nailed it

 

Mmmmmmmm god dammit

 

It's no Sopranos or Dexter but it was a pretty big letdown for an ending

 

I really, really hated this. Especially disappointing after episodes 8 and 9 being so great.

And while mostly unrelated, it airing right after The Leftovers was so perfect could not have helped my opinion lol.

 

Are you saying that the Sopranos ending was a letdown?

 

I never really watched this show religiously, just every now and then I'd catch an episode. But that series finale was awful. I don't like this trend of low key finales.

Shows are not remembered by their premiers.

 

Of course

 

agree with much of what is written here: Why the 'Girls' Finale Was So Disappointing

 

This sounds weird, and as I said I'm not big into this show, but was the baby black?

 

I thought the baby seemed darker than I expected for Hannah and the father. I just didn't want to say anything, because people are easily offended at just about everything these days haha. Knowing Lena, she probably did it intentionally haha

 

There's nothing to be offended by, it's just an observation. It wasn't mentioned in the show?

 

The dad is of Pakistani descent, so that's why the baby was dark. If we're going to debate the darkness of one ethnicity vs another I don't really think that takes our thread anywhere positive

 

See the quote below. Clearly people see that as "negative" Also, the Internet has a ton of stuff about the fact that she used a black baby, so we're not the only people who noticed

 

Well, being that I'm white and have 2 boys with someone who is Colombian, I figured I'd be someone who could discuss it first hand. Whether you perceive it as negative or not, it's just an observation as someone who has bi-racial babies myself. Sorry to offend you though

 

not offended, but thanks for your concern

 

My wife is Mexican.

 

Just making sure. You're one of my favorite posters on site. Not trying to get on anyone's
Bad side

 

But that was a black baby for sure. Wonder what the idea was there? Are we supposed to wonder who the father really is?

I'm just curious.

 

That's what I'm wondering is if there was an underlying plot line. The baby was black, correct. There are theories around on whether it was intentional

 

So am I