After six seasons, fifty-eight episodes, and ample opportunity, it’s clear that Girls has never really given a shit about Shoshanna Shapiro despite being a main character. She’s on every poster, part of all promotional outings, she’s friends with most of the characters, and Zosia Mamet is a good actor, yet nobody cares. Poor Shosh.

Six episodes into the final season of Girls and Shoshanna hasn’t been given a substantial story. Yes, in episode two of this season she shared a plot with Jessa and Elijah, but that barely pushed her character forward. If anything, that storyline was more about Jessa and not Shoshanna.

In previous seasons, Shosh was given the short-end of the stick however at least she had screen time justifying why she was seldom seen. Seasons one, two, and three featured her as a hard-working student (with incredible hair styles) eager to graduate on time and with the best possible grades. Her screen time was limited but on occasion she’d still have stories that included Ray, Jessa, Marnie, and Hannah, often helping Jessa with her addiction issues or aiding Ray in his campaign for a position on the community board. We knew she existed. In season five, Shosh was busy in Japan, completely isolated from the drama in New York. That season gave Shoshanna her own plot but even then it wasn’t that big of a deal.

Now, in the sixth and final season, Shosh is nowhere to be found. We see her on the sidelines of a Ray plot, smiling and giving him positive and supporting advice while he grieves and deals with Marnie’s bullshit. There’s little-to-no reminder of her presence as the season moves forward and it’s becoming increasingly likely we’ll never catch up with her any time soon; there are too many threads in this season that don’t include Shoshanna. At all.

Shoshanna’s exclusion is so sad because she is frequently the best part of some of the show’s best episodes. The season two premiere had her singing “Building A Mystery” and telling Ray off with memorable lines like “I may be deflowered but I am not devalued!” and “I am woman, hear me roar.” Later in that season she witnessed Marnie’s awful Kanye West performance, cringing as we all did, and in season three she stole the spotlight in “Beach House,” letting Hannah and the gang know how stupid they are for underestimating her. At this point, that might as well have been her curtain call.

Shoshanna on all of the posters

Okay, sure, she might latch onto whatever Ray is up to in the final episodes but is that deserving of her brilliance? No. Zosia Mamet has been billed as a main character since the very beginning, featuring herself on all the posters and saying some of the series’ best lines. Why is Shosh frequently forgotten about when characters like Elijah, Desi, and even Ray are given whole season arcs over her? They aren’t main characters! THEY AREN’T ON PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL!

Granted, there are still four episodes to go in this season. For all we know, Shoshanna is going to murder Marnie and the rest of the series will follow her as she narrowly escapes justice (she ends up in Japan, of course, underneath a new name and persona). But her series treatment is unwarranted. Honestly it feels like we’ve been tricked into thinking she’s important when she’s really just there to just be there. Poor Shosh. You deserve so much more.