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" When you watch a friend or a family member talk themselves off a cliff, you&amp;#039;re able to stop them from saying something they truly regret. You&amp;#039;re able to reach out, pull them aside, force them to take a breather and prevent them from doing something unthinkable or blurting out a damning statement they can&amp;#039;t take back. Hannah Horvath has made plenty of these declarations this season on Girls\u2014at her grandmother&amp;#039;s deathbed, in fights with her boyfriend, in her boss&amp;#039; office, in painful fights with her best friends\u2014and up until now her lack of tact has been pretty amusing. At this point, Hannah, whose narcissism has been more obnoxious than anything else, is becoming a straight-up tragic figure, and as we&amp;#039;re one episode away from the finale, we&amp;#039;re dreading it because we&amp;#039;re now invested in this girl&amp;#039;s downward spiral and we want to save her from herself\u2014especially because none of her friends are going to do it for her. We open the episode with, confusingly enough, makeup sex: Adam and Hannah have apparently put the horrible night of roleplaying and relationship revelations aside and are working it out, despite the really brutal fight they had last episode. Adam&amp;#039;s still moved in with Ray and plans to stay there, but he assures Hannah that the arrangement is temporary, even when she pulls a crazy person move and shows up at Ray&amp;#039;s when Adam&amp;#039;s running lines. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s hard to relax when I feel like you&amp;#039;re leaving me in slow-motion!&amp;quot; she cries, and it&amp;#039;s not funny: she&amp;#039;s distressed and has every reason to be, but it&amp;#039;s futile. Adam&amp;#039;s got work to do. He drops her back off at her place in the cab, but head&amp;#039;s back to Ray&amp;#039;s. This would be an unfortunate thing, but it just gets nightmarish from here: Hannah and Elijah head over to Patti Lupone&amp;#039;s apartment because she needs to get follow-up commentary from Lupone for that random bone density story she&amp;#039;s doing at GQ. Patti&amp;#039;s husband\u2014we&amp;#039;ll call him &amp;quot;Mr. Lupone,&amp;quot; as he bitterly joked about himself\u2014was a writer who opted for the more stable income of a CUNY professor gig way back when, and Hannah freaks out after hearing the bitter old man recount the decision and a lifetime of playing second fiddle to his wife&amp;#039;s iconic career in entertainment. Patti, hammered on martinis, tells Hannah she can&amp;#039;t subjugate her passions. Jessa is freaking out, too, but for different reasons, and they don&amp;#039;t have anything to do with drugs this time. While Hannah&amp;#039;s silently screaming at Patti Lupone&amp;#039;s, Jessa is thrashing about Shoshanna&amp;#039;s apartment in a Wu-Tang t-shirt and dancing until she crumples on the floor in a heap, screaming and sobbing about how bored she is. She puts on real clothes and visits Marnie at Soojin&amp;#039;s gallery, where Marni&amp;#039;s trying to coordinate an upcoming exhibition with Bedelia\u2014or Bee Dee\u2014while her 24-year-old boss is off at an appointment. Jessa swings through, charms the artist, who Marnie really, truly admires, and scores a gig archiving Bee Dee&amp;#039;s works. Marnie&amp;#039;s horrified. Jessa just got back on her feet, and within seconds, she swoops in and grabs an opportunity that Marnie&amp;#039;s been working towards this whole time. She&amp;#039;s got other problems, though. Marnie and Desi and their insane sexual tension make their way to an open mic night to perform for the first time, and they&amp;#039;re great. Hannah&amp;#039;s having a horrible day\u2014she self-imploded in spectacular fashion at GQ and finally burned every single bridge there with her friends at the office and her understanding boss, Janice, in the name of artistic integrity\u2014and watching yet another person close to her succeed at living the dream in some small capacity is tough. When she goes out with Adam and his cast mates after the open mic, it&amp;#039;s still on her mind, and she once again defends her &amp;quot;quitting&amp;quot; to a group of people horrified about how she just doesn&amp;#039;t get it. \u2026And then the really cringe-worthy moment of the episode comes about. At the open mic, Marnie calls Desi out on their developing feelings, and he reminds her that he has a girlfriend, Clementine, who&amp;#039;s gorgeous and sweet and compliments Marnie to death upon meeting her. Marnie heads straight to Ray&amp;#039;s after Desi&amp;#039;s rejection and drags the bewildered dude to bed. Hannah and Adam head back to Ray&amp;#039;s, too\u2014he lives there now, remember?\u2014and before they can start their own foreplay, they overhear Marnie coming from the next room. Most people in that situation would just run into their room, close the door and turn the music up, but Hannah? Nope. She barges into Ray&amp;#039;s room to find Marnie and Ray\u2014talk about coitus interruptus\u2014and, justifiably, freaks out. Marnie cowers on the floor. Hannah screams &amp;quot;You will never judge me again!&amp;quot; and the credits roll, and we&amp;#039;re left to pick our jaws up off the floor. Maybe it&amp;#039;s watcher&amp;#039;s guilt or the fact that we can&amp;#039;t insert ourselves into the Dunham/Apatow universe to do the right thing, but here&amp;#039;s how we&amp;#039;d like to see the plot points of Girls pan out in the finale. Marnie and Desi consummate their mental affair. It&amp;#039;s only a matter of time, and though the writers of Girls are playing hard to get, we wish they&amp;#039;d be a bit more realistic about this. Desi&amp;#039;s intellectually cheating, if anything, and it&amp;#039;s about time he put his money where his perfect mouth is and make a move on Marnie. Marnie gets the job, not Jessa\u2014or at least an opportunity she&amp;#039;s earned. We feel bad for Marnie, and she&amp;#039;s usually insufferable, but watching her get back on track only to have Jessa sashay in and threaten all of that is awful. She&amp;#039;s the one who deserves a cool archiving gig, not the girl who steals cash out of a shoebox at the children&amp;#039;s boutique she works at in order to buy coke. Hannah actually tries to make GQ work. Her friends\u2014especially Joe\u2014were so kind and encouraging, and Janice valued her input. We&amp;#039;re sympathetic and get that the gig wasn&amp;#039;t The Gig for Hannah, but still, it was a fantastic opportunity and she squandered it. She already had one chance when she almost quit her job for the same reasons, but now? It&amp;#039;s just painful to watch her thrash out at a team of people that didn&amp;#039;t deserve it, and it&amp;#039;s frustrating to see the silver ticket she&amp;#039;s been given wasted. Shoshanna finds out about Marnie and Ray. This will definitely happen, especially given how Hannah reacted to finding out about their haphazard romance. And Shosh&amp;#039;s response is going to be a screech for the ages. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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