‘Girls’ Recap, Season Four, Episode Five: “Sit-In”

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Last week, Hannah came home to Brooklyn hoping to find her old life and her boyfriend exactly where she found it. Unfortunately, in this week's episode, she discovered that she couldn't just press pause on her relationship with Adam while she hid out in grad school for two years. Life has a funny way of moving on, and in Adam's case, it moves on in just under a month in the form of an undeniably beautiful multi-media artist named Mimi-Rose Howard.

"That's not a name. That's a woman's name and a man's name with a flower stuck in the middle of it," Hannah cries to Shoshanna.

That may be true, but it's also the name of a an artist who is accomplished the kind of creative career that Hannah has always dreamed about, but has, time and time again, eschewed the hard work and blown the necessary opportunities. As it stands, Hannah's a jobless grad school dropout who returned to New York to discover that her belongings are in storage (on Adam's dime, most likely from his pill commercial) and his new girlfriend has moved into her place. To add insult to injury, they even followed through on Hannah's dream of knocking out the wall between the two bedrooms in order to create one giant love nest of a master bedroom. If there's one definitive sign that Adam has moved on, that's it.

However, despite the fact that Hannah left things vaguely open ended with Adam and despite the fact that her leaving town seemed like a spineless way to back out of a stalled relationship, this is one of the few times that viewers can unilaterally align with Hannah. That alone places her at the top of this week's likability index. While a lot of her problems tend to be either of her own design, or could otherwise be dismissed as luxury problems, the brutality of being blindsided by heartbreak is a universal experience regardless of the level of privilege one currently enjoys. It seems totally reasonable that Hannah would go completely catatonic under some blankets in her old room and avoid taking bathroom trips as to not cross paths with Adam — or worse yet, her replacement. Maybe the whole peeing in a waste paper basket thing wasn't as reasonable, but given the circumstances, we're willing to let that slide.

Hannah eventually has a much-needed air clearing with Adam before heading off to the storage facility and collapsing onto her couch among her boxed up things.

"You left…and I was sort of relieved," Adam tells Hannah. "What we had was real, and it was beautiful and intense and weird and terrifying, and there was a time I couldn't imagine myself with anyone else, ever." Until, of course, he realized that their relationship had indeed run its course, lending this split an air of finality absent of so many other sitcom on-again, off-again pairings. Hannah begins to accept the relationship's demise as evidenced by the fact that she asked Adam to stop calling her by the pet name "kid."

The rest of the day involves a cast of characters coming by to offer Hannah varying levels of emotional support. Which brings us to…

Marnie

At first, it didn't look like Marnie was going to rank this high on the likability scale. She was MIA through both Hannah and Adam's attempts to call her, which we later found was part of a "cell-phone diet" because Desi (or, as Ray hilariously referred to him, "Mumford or Son") was "woodshedding," "Woodshedding." That sounds like something Bon Iver would do, and is therefore unacceptable.

Also, she lets it slip that Desi is now living in her shoebox apartment, which leads us to believe that Clementine was actually the one to do the dumping (as "violent" as the term is) and Desi had nowhere else to go.

But, enough of that harbinger of future heartbreak. Marnie shows up with food and a bit of gentle truth that Hannah needed to hear. She tells Hannah that she has to let Adam go, and, aside from her breakthrough where she laid down the law with Desi and told him that she couldn't mess around with him while he was in a relationship, it's the most reasonable she's been all season. Plus, points to Marnie for not letting Hannah get away with her totally avoidant fake shower ruse, which is seriously something a middle school girl would try to pull.

Shoshanna

The first member of the consolation parade was Shoshanna, who once she got over the fact that she was basically the last person to know that Adam shacked up with another woman, was a pretty ride-or-die ally. Her first course of business involved googling Mimi-Rose in order to find something they could pick apart about the "rando hussy." Unfortunately, that backfires when Hannah finds a TED Talk-style keynote address where she learns that her romantic rival is infinitely more accomplished and self-actualized than she is. Once Shosh realizes what she's done, she tries to pry the keyboard out of Hannah's hands. The damage is already done, but Shosh gets an A for the effort and for being the first person to show up for her friend.

Jessa

Jessa occupies the bottom rank of the likability index by a wide margin this week. There were times where her bluntness and hostility are well received by the audience because she's ultimately acting as surrogate and voicing all of our frustrations with Hannah in our stead. Here, she just seems like she's acting out over her perceived abandonment over Hannah skipping town and did so by setting Adam up with Mimi-Rose. When Hannah calls her out on this, Jessa turns the blame around, demanding to know if Hannah expected everyone to just "sit around flicking out clits" while she was off in Iowa. Bitch seriously needs to call her sponsor.

The two then punch each other, which is ultimately satisfying because we've wanted to hit the both of them at various junctures over the entire run of this show.

It's been a bit of a running theme this season that the recurring characters are way more entertaining than the four titular girls. As usual, Ray is an absolute delight as he comes by to comfort Hannah only to tip his hand and reveal that he's still gripped by an anger of an almost Biblical scale over the ongoing noise pollution in his neighborhood. Of course, we come to learn that he's channeling his frustration over Marnie choosing Desi the doofus over him into his ongoing fury over the endless car horn honking.

However, the night's scene stealers are Hannah's creepy neighbor Laird and Adam's pregnant sister Caroline, played to glorious perfection by Jon Glaser and Gaby Hoffman. Naturally, Laird takes this opportunity to perv on Hannah via the world's most unsettling group hug. And that's saying a lot since group hugs are usually uncomfortable in and of themselves.

"There's nothing sexual about this at all," Laird says mid-hug, before Caroline adds, "But of course, if you need something of that nature, we'd be happy to offer."

There's nothing that makes one assume a situation is sexual faster than when a person just outright insists, apropos of nothing, that "there's nothing sexual about this at all."

Hoffman also delivers the episode's best moment when she attempts to sooth Hannah with some insight into her brother.

"He's really at his best when he's nurturing the poor, the lost, the profoundly damaged. Which is why you were so perfect for him." Caroline tells Hannah. She's like the Picasso of passive aggression.

The only person's reaction we're missing is Elijah's, assuming he's not still in Iowa, helping young undergrad boys along on their journeys towards sexual awakening.

Maggie Serota is a Staff Editor at Death and Taxes and a freelance writer who loves TV more than life itself.

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