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'Girls' once again enters the murky realm of Hannah's personality in an episode about How We Grieve. Except it's not "we" so much as "these specific clinically narcissistic people."

So David Pressler-Goings is dead. This should not come as a surprise, because "a character will die on Girls this season" + David's manic behavior last week = obviously he was going to die. Hannah's reaction to this news, the bedrock to this whole episode, is predictable in the way that Girls has been predictable all season thus far. It's like if you tasked an improv troupe with creating a Girls parody and started them off with "Hannah's editor dies." Jessa thinks it's NBD and looks forward to the day she dies. Hannah can't believe no one updated her on the status of her ebook. Adam tells her she's a narcissistic idiot. Shoshanna acts like a ditzy simpleton. Marnie has nothing to do with any of this because she's on an island somewhere, training for the Hunger Games or something.

In some ways, that the characters are so easily identified by their specific worldviews is a success. These aren't broad archetypes of women anymore. Notice how the conversation about Girls hardly ever backslides into "What is this saying about women?" the way it was in Season 1 (and the way people currently speak about, say, Looking). This isn't a show about Girls anymore, it's about Hannah and Jessa and Marnie and Shosh. That's the good part. The bad part is that, currently, Hannah is the only character who's being written in any way interestingly. Shosh is a joke, Marnie is a repository for every terrible quality a person could have, Jessa keeps showing flashes of humanity that never end up going anywhere.