The show ended with Hannah breastfeeding. Henceforth in the spirit of "jump the shark," all bad finales should "suck Lena Dunham's Tit."

Feels like the real finale was last episode. The friends deciding that sometimes friendships don't last. Having one last dance together after the realization that it's over and Hannah driving off out of the city. Growing up and leaving your youth and mistakes behind. This episode felt more like a postscript

There was essentially a Hannah-Adam finale, a Hannah-friends finale, then a Hannah finale. Something for everyone based on what you wanted out of the show. With that said, thought it was a strong final season, with a mediocre final episode.

Poker,

The marnie taking pics in the bathroom scene was pretty good too!

Feels like there should be a movie in a year or two, things don't feel quite wrapped up

Agree with all of this. This is a random scene that has stuck with me:



(Youtube tag isn't working in the preview, so here's the link as a backup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgFIV2BDv-I )

I mean what the everloving **** is going on here? There's no way Hannah's character could have been written to be remotely likeable in this scene, and yet it starts with her on a feminist rant. So I guess the takeaway here is "feminists are bitches", which could be self-deprecation, but that doesn't feel like something that's in Dunham's playbook.

One other rant: the "every character dates every other character at some point" trope is some soap opera quality ****, one of the cheapest possible ways I can think of to milk drama out of a TV series. Props to Dunham for at least not having Hannah end up with Adam, that would have been even worse than the way it actually ended.

Also thank god I didn't try to prop bet this season, I probably would have taken abortion -200 as late as 3 episodes ago.

I liked the joke about Hannah not knowing if Marnie even has nipples, as she's never seen them.

I think this is a very fair assessment. The last episode was what it was.

I do feel like this season - whether intentional or not - was more about trying to showcase Dunham as an actress. For the most part I felt like she pulled off the scenes, although of course she wrote most of them. I'm not sure what her next step might be in showbiz. Thoughts?

I think she is an incredible actress -- it might be her best skill at this point. In the after show Judd Aptatow, Jenni Konner and Lena all promised they would work together in the future. I think she'll do a few small, prestige projects and then come out with another TV show, slightly different from girls, on HBO. Probably won't be a character on the show as it will be too difficult to separate Girls from the new show.

Hello friends,

I wanted to pop in and express how amazing this show has been over the past 5 years! This show may not have ended how we expected, but that is how life is sometimes, we lose contact with our friends and many times it involves some really bad blood.

Lena Dunham is an amazing talent and I suspect we have not seen the last of her yet. Maybe a few years later, Lena will create a Girls movie to give us the happy ending that most of us probably expected and wanted.

-O

I think you might be correct that she sticks with TV. A couple of years ago (mainly after word leaked of her huge book deal), I thought she might try to launch a web platform focusing on life, politics, and things for young girls/women, sort of part HuffPo, part Goop, part Martha Stewart, except for the 15-35 demographic. But she gets so much online vitriol these days, she's probably not well suited for that anymore, if she even was to begin with.

I'm just not sure where she goes as an actress - who's the parallel? Mindy Kaling?

Quite possibly the worst series finale in television history

While I'm clearly no fan of the series, I have to ask: for the people who hated the finale, what were you expecting out of it but didn't get?

Can't find the quote right now, but Judd Apatow felt the same way. He saw the finale as a sort of "spinoff" episode.

in b4 Keeed says The Newsroom's was worse.

Also not a fan of the series even though I watched the whole damn thing fml, but from a series finale, I'm expecting some kind of sense of a conclusion of story arcs and character arcs from the main characters, as well as a sense of where they're headed from here on out.

There have been several episodes throughout this series that were standalone episodes, like the one with her and the doctor from a couple seasons ago. And then sections of seasons that were like standalone sections like Shosh in Japan or Hannah in Iowa. This episode felt like that to me. It was an odd choice to have a standalone episode be the series finale.

I suppose that we did get that sense of what is now going to be happening from here on out for Hannah, but not for the other characters. And with the way someone described how a few eps ago was her closing the chapter with her and Adam, and last week's ep was that conclusion of her and the other girls, and the finale was her and Marnie along with her own journey, the common thread is her. She indisputably made the end of the show AND the bulk of this season all about Hannah, and that sucks, because the other characters on this show have deservedly earned their spot just as much as her. But based on just how much attention has been paid to her character, the show should have really been called "Hannah, Plus Some Other Girls. And Sometimes Some Guys Too."

It was a fine Girls episode but not finale-ish, didn't really sum things up etc. Both Dunham and Williams did great jobs acting I thought, was funnier in its limited scope than a lot of eps are. Previous episode was more finale-ish, and that's fine if that's how she wants to play it.

IT WAS MUCH WORSE

Yeah that was a terrible finale. Sigh, such a perfect season up until the last episode.

Just watched Get Out and fell in love with Allison Williams. Is it a good idea start watching this show just because of her?

Only if you want to fall out of love with her.

yeah...watching girls because of a separate infatuation for allison williams will only lead to disapointment.

She's good in the show, all the actors are besides the blonde one, who is horrible.

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