Tricia: I would like to start this review with a picture of Grumpy Cat.
This was an excellent episode (for one thing—no Marnie)—with no-so-excellent plot developments. For one thing: SHOSHANNA WAS ROBBED!
So, as I predicted last week, after weeks of watching and acting with Fantasy Hannah land in his film, Adam left Jessa for Hannah, with an equally deluded fantasy about helping her raise her baby. But while that was predictable, other events weren’t.
Jessica: Adam intercepts Hannah while she’s buying pops (New York is undergoing a heatwave at the moment). The next thing we know, they’re having reunion sex in her apartment, a most Judd Apatow move (He claims he can hear the baby: “It’s Russian, the sounds of waves crashing.") Meanwhile, in the very same building, Jessa is having a breakdown. After Adam tells her he is leaving her, the thought of him reuniting with Hannah makes her literally puke. She’s in Laird’s apartment scaring his baby, drinking his baby’s juice: “Children—it’s good for them to hear loud noises and strange smells and be around strange men. You don’t want them to be boring.”
Tricia: She played it cool during the break-up, but she proceeds to go on a bender and walks into a sad old man bar with exactly one dude at the end of the bar, and walks into the bathroom, where they proceed to have anonymous, sad, crying sex. Meanwhile, Hannah and Adam are playing house, having sex very slowly and carefully (“I feel like we have an audience,” says Adam), shopping for baby stuff, talking about who is going to do the bills, and how he can build cribs and dressers for the baby. I wondered how long the fever dream of theirs would last until it broke, and it wasn’t long at all. The scene in the diner was devastating.
Jessica: Adam is going on and on about the ways that he’ll be there for Hannah. He says he’ll get them into an apartment for artists. He jokes that that maybe they should get married. This is when Hannah goes silent. It dawns on her that none of this is ever going to happen. Her voice quivers and her eyes turn red, until she’s full-on crying in the diner. She wants to go home, presumably to be alone. “Good soup,” Adam comments.
Meanwhile, Shoshanna and Ray are trying to get Hermie’s old tapes (an oral history of Brooklyn) digitized. Shosh’s former boss Abigail enters the frame. Shosh warns Ray that Abigail is unbearable: “You’re going to totally love her except for the times you absolutely hate her.” Tricia, you already hate her, don’t you?
Tricia: OMG, I hate her. The only thing I like about her is that she has her hair in mermaid/Hilda braids like our Stranger Music Calendar editor Kim Selling. She’s totally annoying, but she likes the weird old man things that Ray likes, such as digitizing films of obscure movies, and when she asks the question: “Would you rather live in a nice house with a shitty view or a shitty house with a nice view?”, Ray just basically falls in love with her right there. “That’s my question,” he says, and then they both smugly inform Shoshanna that the “correct” answer is the nice apartment with the shitty view (with the other one, Ray explains, “you’re fine being structurally flawed but you never have to see your true self). IDK, but when Abby tags along with Ray for the oral history, they end their perfect day at Jane’s Carousel, the glassed-in merry-go-round on the Brooklyn waterfront, and have a too-cute first kiss and now I’m throwing up just like Jessa.
Jessica: Remember what happened the last time Ray’s romantic trajectory landed on a happy note? He got cheated on. I would really not count on this as a conclusion to his storyline.
Tricia: Maybe not, but if they don’t get back together, I will be mad. Shoshanna deserves something, a resolution, happiness, a job, something. I also think it’s just like a man to basically swoon for a woman who likes exactly what he does.
Jessica: I heard they might make a Girls movie. Maybe they’re saving her story for that? Shrugs. After letting Hannah go, Adam returns to Jessa. It’s a familiar scene. He calls her, asking if she’ll buzz him in. She’s looking down at him from her window and resignedly does.
Tricia: Two more episodes left. So we know at least one of my predictions is definitely not happening—Hannah and Adam. Not sure what will happen with Shosh and Ray.
