In the last two “Girls” episodes we’ve gotten to see new sides of Hannah, Ray and now Jessa. In “Video Games,” episode 7 of the second season, Hannah and a recently “divorced” and therefore depressed Jessa venture upstate to visit Jessa’s father. As they wait at the Manitou train station and have a rather extensive conversation about butt-texting, we can tell that this ep will have quite a few twists and turns. That is, if Jessa’s presence hadn’t given it away already.

When Jessa’s father, who so fervently believes “Camry drivers are c***s" finally picks up the girls we can tell that Jessa is the spitting image of him, socially and sarcastically. Although hesitant about being reunited, Jessa and her father's visit (which includes his new, perhaps third, wife Petula and her 19-year-old, very awkward son Frank), seems to be going well. “You know we’re not like other people,” he says. A fact the two undoubtedly agree on. 

Hannah, who Petula has coined to be the “push cushion” AKA the one that takes the possible blows between Jessa, her father and Petula, does a good job supporting her friend on a potentially disastrous visit. That is until dinner. The “family” sits down to their pet rabbit, which freaks Hannah out, almost as much as when Jessa’s father says that he won’t be able to spend time with her that evening because he and Petula have plans.

Pissed off, Jessa, Hannah, Frank and his neighbor Tyler head out to speed through the empty country roads, while getting high from an empty whip cream can. Also known as a flash back to the movie “Thirteen” (the coed version). After some reckless driving accompanied by Nickelback’s “S.E.X” in which Hannah panics, forces Tyler to stop the car and runs into the woods, she has a typical (8 second) sexcapade with Frank. Little did Hannah know that wasn’t apart of the hangout plan. “Really Hannah, you had no idea that his wasn’t a sexcapade,” asked Jessa. But then again, when is any moment not a sexcapade for Hannah?

The trip that seemed to being going oh-so-well went down hill real quick. The next morning, Jessa and her father have a swing-set debrief, but Jessa’s the only one that does the debriefing. “Why won’t you stand up for me? Why weren’t you there? Why can’t you do one single thing that you say you’re going to do?” she asks him. Her split from Thomas-John has put her emotions at an all time high. Now combine that with her nonexistent filter.

“You act like you want me to come see you but you don’t know how to have me here. You don’t know how to deal with it. You don’t know how to even have a conversation with me,” she continues as her dad slowly moves back and forth on the rusty set. He then utters his first sentence in the “conversation.” “You think I can rely on you?” he asks. A question that explains it all. 

“You shouldn’t have to. I’m the child. I’m the child,” she responds with tears streaming down her face. 

Jessa’s father tries to make up for it, but fails once again, leaving her and Hannah at the grocery store and causing them to sadly walk back home to Aimee Mann’s “How Am I Different.” A song that fits the scene perfectly, as it seems like the single question lingering in Jessa’s head.

As Hannah handles her reoccurring UTI, she finds that like her father, Jessa’s left. ‘See you around my love’ reads the note left next to Hannah’s suitcase.

Saddened by Jessa’s situation, Hannah realizes her gratitude for her parents and their involvement in her life, which leads her to a “thank you” phone call which is partially accepted by her mother (who thinks Hannah is trying to pull something with “kindness”).

As Mann’s “How Am I Different” closes the episode, we can only wonder if we’ll ever see Jessa again. 

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