This is a show that has evolved in interesting ways, while still showing how people really just don’t change that quickly in real life. People with problems don’t solve them overnight. We start with Hannah watching home videos of Adam, further humanizing the formerly clearly terrible boyfriend and bringing them closer together. A positive thing? Maybe. In many ways, they are both clearly damaged. This video watching transitions into a silly way of Marnie perusing online photos of her old boyfriend Charlie travelling with his new girlfriend on a trip in Rome.
We get the “self-improvement from Adam” subplot, where Hannah starts running with him to get in better shape until giving up and collapsing on the pavement like a whiny child. He also gives seemingly decent life advice to Marnie about moving past Charlie and discovering what she’s passionate about. It sounds alright, although it leads to some odd stuff soon enough. But first, Adam is in a small local play! Hannah is transfixed by the “raw” monologue of a sexually frustrated teenager when Adam gets on stage, but then Adam quits in a huff when he feels the vision of the play is being compromised.
Cue the meta-narrative on valuing artistic purity and treating Hannah a bit more like a woman — but Adam still calls her “kid” and then finds it hilarious to urinate on her in the shower. The concept of “apologizing” seems lost on him, although he makes a better effort of it later in the episode. The moral? Doing something big and unusual makes up for lack of kindness. At least now they are troubled together.
But it doesn’t go so smoothly for the others (although Shoshana is not in this episode) — nor does the bizarre abuse stay limited to Adam. Marnie and Jessa badmouth Hannah behind her back for being flaky, absent-minded, and flat-chested. Charming, if not entirely inaccurate sort of behavior. But Adam’s supportive words strike a bizarre chord with Marnie, so when they go out to a bar and they meet a guy who buys their drinks (UK actor Chris O’Dowd with an American accent for some reason), she decides she’s totally into him.
Jessa loses interest when she thinks it wasn’t a much older guy, and that doesn’t change. Using his American accent and getting Jessa’s name wrong — surprised it didn’t turn her on. It’s a sort of odd meta-joke, Chris using a fake bad British accent to be funny, making Mary Poppins jokes … Not really sure the point of it. It almost becomes a “three-way” of sorts when Marine starts making out with Jessa, really just to be “free.” Ah, there it is. Freedom. Freedom, apparently, to be weird.
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Clacked by Jeremy Fogelman 
on Jun 04, 2012 @ 08:32 EST5EDT
My overall impression of the show was that they didn’t want to write women characters like everyone else so they just made them sporadic in their mindset and ultimately unlikable. As a woman in her 20s, I don’t relate to them at all and I’m borderline mad that they’re trying to represent my generation.