Girls S03E03 - "She Said Ok"

      I will just preface by saying that I love "Girls". It took me half of the first season to actually fall in love with it, but eventually I did, and hard. The second season was a true tour de force, showing the real pain (and eventual joy) of being a twenty something girl. What I always loved about Girls is how "in your face" it actually was. It wasn't just about showing us uncomfortable and cringe-worthy situations, it was about taking us there too. Somehow the show removed that safety net that viewers have, where it makes it fun to watch other people in danger knowing you're in the comfort of your own home. It's the whole appeal of horror movies, right?
      I miss this lack of safety net this season so far. Girls has felt, over these last three episodes, very safe. Not safe for Lena and her gang, but safe for us. I know it's early in the season, but I have a hard time believing that this is a season that will go as dark as "Get on All Fours",  for example. Albeit the situations in the show being somewhat unrealistic (their apartments, for example, or that whole "my boss is sexually assaulting me so I'll offer him sex even though he's 102" situation), I always felt the characters and their emotional struggles to be very, very realistic and relatable. Exception possibly being Shosh, 'cause, like, no one really talks that way, and like, who has the time to take THAT much care of their hair? But I'm also lacking that this season. I mean, come on, Adam's sister? I couldn't find her remotely relatable, so I felt that she was only there to create a tension between Lena and Adam. Same thing with Hanna's publisher. Did anyone believe someone would act like that even for a second? Ok, I get that the whole idea is to contrast this young woman turning 25 (the big 1/4 century!!) acting more mature than the man that is almost her mentor and is supposed to be "the grown up", but maybe a more subtle approach would deliver the same message without banging it so hard on my head it almost hurt (sensing metaphor with Ray getting punched in the head?).
       But back to my first sentence: I love Girls. This is clearly a post from someone that loves something so much she wants it to be perfect every single time. I still love Girls and I think it is turning out to be one of my favorite stories in what is becoming a more and more common genre: the "twenty-something second coming of age story".