I'm not entirely sure I "got" "Video Games," unless the point of it was to make me not want to see Jessa again for a while and like Hannah even more. My colleague Ethan Alter made a very good point that despite its flaws, the episode did add to the expansion of Girls's universe, thanks to the addition of beautiful Upstate New York (and last episode it was Staten Island, the episode before that, an alternate look at her own neighborhood), but beyond that, we're all kind of just waiting for next week.

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Last week, Rachel did a Which Character Are You quiz based on this program, and I ended up as Ray. It only confirmed my weekly feelings of how I'm probably too old to be watching this show. As I near closer and closer to 40, I find myself watching this series, especially an episode like "On All Fours," feeling like a dinosaur and getting mildly depressed about the fact that the only characters I remotely relate to are Hannah's parents. But in some ways, I'm grateful that I am an adult and know not to put Q-tips too far into my ears because I listened when my mother told me the thing about the elbow. That's not to say I don't find the show fascinating. For me, it is like going to the gorilla area at the zoo and studying these strange creatures that sort of look like me but are also incredibly different. So here's my "old lady" take on the characters this week.

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I don't really have anything bad to say about "It's Back," or much of Season 2 of Girls for that matter (beyond what I said last week, that is), most likely because the majority of criticism I've heard and read of the series is based in sexism or subjective visceral reactions to Lena Dunham as an individual. I get so sick of reading the same negative commentary over and over again that it only feeds what I love about this show that much more, and so trying to find a Bad aspect of this episode would leave me empty, and pathetically snarkless.

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Girls! Girls! Girls!

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Girls haters have another loss to groan about this week: Lena and the gang have been picked up for a third season. And if virgin viewers took that news to heart and decided to check out the show starting with this week's "Bad Friend," I'm pretty sure they will never ever be back.

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With "It's a Shame about Ray," we've now seen the exposed sides of Hannah, Marnie, Jessa and Shoshanna's relationships, teaching us about our main characters' vulnerabilities and projections, and how they look when they're at their most raw. Hannah is sloppy, tortured and afraid; Marnie is lost without her labels; Jessa is full of pain; and Shoshanna is strange but quite innocent. I think this might be my favorite episode of Girls so far, in no small part thanks to the well-proportioned screen time each of our protagonists got and, like in "All Adventurous Women Do," there was this wonderful moment of female friendship at the end, framed by a completely on-the-nose song that was just too perfect to really sneer at... you know, unless you hate-watch this show. In that case, I'd imagine that Hannah and Jessa in the tub is one of those scenes that made you cringe harder than ever before and only furthered your antipathy for Lena Dunham. To which I'd ask: unless you're getting paid to do it, why are you still watching this show, really?

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"Boys" is nothing like "One Man's Trash," which the majority of Internet commenters will be thankful for -- aside from the cold open, we didn't get too much of Hannah and absolutely none of her boobs. It's pretty impressive, actually. "Boys" also won't inspire the kind of articles about being a young woman discovering herself through her sexual encounters like the one my friend Leigh Alexander wrote (and HBO promoted) for Thought Catalog, but it did succeed in giving us some wonderful alone time with Adam and Ray, a few classic Shoshanna-isms, a Jessa update and my favorite Marnie storyline to date. Let's get to it.

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Isn't it nice to be able to just watch Girls, rather than read think piece after think piece about how various people disliked those ten episodes of Season 1 so much that they feel their thoughts on Lena Dunham must therefore be transcendent? Yeah, me too.

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