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Hannah Gets Her First Big Gig on 'Girls': Do a Lot of Coke and Then Write About It
Jazzhate, the Vice/Thought Catalog-style website Hannah (Lena Dunham) gets an actual paid writing gig from in last night's episode of "Girls," "Bad Friend," offers our protagonist the chance to do cocaine for the first time like it's a homework assignment.
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Recap: 'Girls' Tries Cocaine & Discovers A Bad Friend
The first season of "Girls" was both entertaining and refreshing simply by the virtue of Lena Dunham's voice, which found a milieu of New York City life for young women that was perhaps more real and honest than anything we've seen on television in quite some time. Spanning flawed to fabulous, somet...
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'Girls' Recap 3: 'Bad Friend,' or the One Where Hannah Does Lots of Coke
Aspiring writers are often encouraged to write about their own experiences, a tactic that “Girls” creator and star Lena Dunham uses frequently. But sometimes, when a young writer doesn’t feel she or he has “lived” enough, an experience is contrived with the sole intention of then writing about it. E...
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'American Horror Story: Asylum' Closes Its Doors on a Wild But Surprisingly Poignant Season
The article below contains spoilers for the second season of "American Horror Story."
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'Girls' Addresses Race and What It Means to Be Conservative
The article below contains spoilers for "I Get Ideas," the January 20th, 2013 episode of "Girls."
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Recap: Minor Key 'Girls' Finds Hannah & Marnie Getting Some New Ideas
If the season premiere was a bit of shakeup to reorient the gang in "Girls" for wherever the new season will take them, the second episode almost seems like an addendum. It's as if Lena Dunham and company decided they needed to make yet another shift to get the show in the direction they needed, and...
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'Girls' Recap 2: The Girls 'Get Ideas,' But What Do They Want?
In the epic Hannah vs. Marnie blowout last season, Marnie snaps at Hannah, “I like to be around people who know what they want!” This line is particularly relevant in Sunday night’s all-new episode, “I Get Ideas”: Do the young women of “Girls” know what they want?
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Sundance Preview: Jane Campion’s ‘Top Of The Lake’ Feels Like ‘The Killing’ Only With Haunting, Lasting Sustain
Moody, without being oppressively dark or atmospheric, compelling and mysterious, Jane Campion's seven-part Sundance Channel series, "Top Of The Lake" – based on two episodes thus far – is an intriguing crime drama and mystery that's got this writer hooked.
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Kevin Hart's Reality Show Satire Flips Genders on the 'Real Housewives' Trend
Kevin Hart's "Real Husbands of Hollywood," which premieres tonight, January 15th, on BET at 10pm, began as a series of sketches at the 2011 BET Awards that you can watch at the bottom of this post -- a faux reality show spoof that, in its original short form, is actually a little sharp...
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Recap: Marnie Becomes Hannah In Season 2 Premiere Of 'Girls'
Adam (Adam Driver) got hit by a car, Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) lost her virginity, Marnie (Alison Williams) moved out of her apartment with Hannah (Lena Dunham), Jessa (Jemima Kirke) got married....change was is in the air for the characters of "Girls" at the end of season one. And as season two opens...
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