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" Everything we thought we knew about Girls is a lie. Hannah has crippling OCD. Marnie wants to sing. Charlie is a tech giant. Adam owns a clean shirt and can be utterly charming on dates.  There are rules to television\u2014characters shouldn&amp;#039;t magically manifest new talents, disorders, personalities, or facial structures (historical exception: Fresh Prince&amp;#039;s Miraculous Aunt Viv Transformation of 1993)\u2014and this show is flouting every one. I&amp;#039;m calling shenanigans, and if Lena Dunham doesn&amp;#039;t knock this off, next week I&amp;#039;ll be forced to recap an old episode of Duck Dynasty that I can&amp;#039;t get my DVR to delete.  I realize that Lena Dunham is drawing on personal experience. I understand that she has struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and I think it&amp;#039;s brave to admit that; it&amp;#039;s just a wild gambit to hit an audience with eight episodes into a second season. (Honestly, I&amp;#039;m still coming to terms with last week&amp;#039;s UTI...)  It&amp;#039;s also a risky move because it tempts us to reevaluate the motivations of Hannah&amp;#039;s previous behavior and, subsequently, our own reactions to them. It&amp;#039;s like when you used to laugh at young Theo Huxtable for his failures in the classroom, until The Cosby Show diagnosed him with dyslexia; then you just felt like a major league asshole for snickering and genuinely hoped he and Cockroach would get the help they required.  And Marnie&amp;#039;s gonna audition for The Voice now after 18 episodes and maybe one previous mention of her singing or enjoying singing or being able to sing at all? No way. A fundamental rule of TV: If we haven&amp;#039;t seen your talent by episode three, you don&amp;#039;t possess it. And what&amp;#039;s worse, she proves it by belting Norah Jones&amp;#039; &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t Know Why,&amp;quot; which is just a showoff move. Girls is now mining the trope it took Full House at least three seasons to dip into, specifically the &amp;quot;talent show,&amp;quot; an episode that\u2014for no functional plot purpose\u2014lets an actor lend a real-life skill to his character. This usually amounted to Stephanie Tanner doing rhythmic gymnastics or Uncle Jesse performing &amp;quot;Kokomo&amp;quot; with the Beach Boys, it and never really made a lot of sense.  And Charlie has an app and a corner office now?! Did Charlie even have a freaking job two episodes ago? Girls, you may as well just make Ray a closet Brony or, better yet, M. Night Shyamalan that shit: Shoshanna&amp;#039;s been dead this whole time! Either of those would be easier to swallow. The only thing I won&amp;#039;t complain about is Adam. He goes to an AA meeting, meets a woman who looks like Swifty Lazar and Bruce Vilanch melted together in a hot car, makes a totally creepy introductory phone call to her daughter, and somehow gets a hot date out of it\u2014which he aces. Nice going, big guy. I guess it&amp;#039;s never too late to change.  For more musings from David, follow him on  Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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