Similarly, “Girls” doesn’t run away from all the unappealing aspects of Jessa – who generally lacks the wit and vulnerability that makes Hannah so often likable despite herself – but in both the ugly break-up scene and then her visit to Hannah’s bathtub, we’re reminded of how little pleasure she takes from all of this.

(Thomas John, trying to smooth things over after Tessa confesses to a former heroin addiction: “You know, Jessa does her own hair.”) It’s not even that she doesn’t lie when asked potentially embarrassing questions, but that she seems to go out of her way to give the answers that will most horrify her new in-laws, because it’s simply what she does.

But in “It’s a Shame About Ray,” her marriage ends as abruptly as it began, because Jessa can’t help herself from turning dinner with his parents – well (if broadly) played by Griffin Dunne and Deborah Rush – into a 16-car pileup. We’ve half-forgotten because she hasn’t been around much so far this year, and because she’s been in a stable – if wildly phony and unhealthy – relationship with Thomas John. “Someday, some fucking asshole is going to make a movie out of your life, and it’s gonna be called, ‘Hi, I’m Jessa, and I Destroy People’s Lives ‘Cause I’m Fucking Bored.'” -Thomas JohnĪfter last week’s coke binge and ensuing shame spiral (which she at least was able to write an article about), Hannah winds up taking a backseat to the larger “Girls” ensemble in “It’s a Shame About Ray.” She gets to say goodbye to Elijah (because Andrew Rannells had to start filming “The New Normal”) and continue to display her contempt for Marnie, but her dinner party mainly winds up facilitating stories about her guests, and the episode’s biggest story takes place elsewhere that night.įor all that we talk about Hannah as a selfish, destructive force, she’s got nothing on Jessa, who spent most of the first season causing explosions just for the hell of it. A quick review of tonight’s “Girls” coming up just as soon as we have a look at the bad one…

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