All the single ladies, all the single ladies…beware. No seriously. If you have yet to watch this weekend’s episode of “Girls” because you were busy freaking out about JT’s comeback at the Grammy’s, beware. As Valentine’s or “Single Awareness” Day approaches, this ep will enhance your cynicism or get your tissue box, tear flow and ½ gallon of chunky monkey party started early. 

Emotional is an understatement. So much so that I am happy (yes I said it) that there’s only one notable tune. Although William Fitzsimmon’s “Beautiful Girl” might have fit Hannah’s breakdown perfectly.

Or Feist’s “I Feel It All” would have been a good closer, though they also might have been too much.

Some, like Rolling Stone, think the emotion overload was too much. Others, like myself, think it let us see an entirely different side of Hannah. A side we all knew was there. A side that we could honestly connect with. Sure, her random assortment of bed buddies are entertaining and her corky sense of humor hysterical but as much as we enjoy it all, how much can we honestly relate to? This episode was relatable. Sad, but relatable.

Following Hannah trying to coin “Sexit” (a term which can be used for two people who want to leave an event to go have sex) Ray gets into it with a Greenpoint neighbor (Joshua) who is fed up with the stale pastries and coffee beans that leave no room for his trash in his own can. Hannah follows quickly behind the angry neighbor’s exit, to charmingly admit she was guilty of the trash dumping.

Before I get into the next “typical Hannah” move (the last we see in this episode), the “Sex & The City” like score that plays as she walks into his ravishingly renovated brownstone must be noted. I swear, I had an instant flashback to Carrie and Big. It was awesome. It was scary. That alone should’ve have prepared me for what happened in the next 20 minutes.

After their random counter sex, Dr. Joshua throws a couple steaks on the grill, which causes them to share a “frat-house” get together with his neighbors and Sean Paul’s “Temperature.”

Joshua then asks, no, begs Hannah to stay (per her request) and thus the ‘so cute and romantic it hurts’ chain of events begin. They cuddle, they call in sick to work to cuddle, have sex, play ping-pong, talk, to have sex and cuddle some more. I think it’s what you call a relationship?

But remember, we’re talking about Hannah here. So these seemingly relationship-like events end real quick. After she passes out from being overly steamed in Joshua’s swanky shower Hannah eyes well up with vulnerability, causing her to stutter over every feeling she’s attempted to mask over the last few years. 

“Please don’t tell anyone this, but I want to be happy,” she sobs. And with that the truth comes out. Including some scary truths, like how Hannah’s mom didn’t believe her when she said her babysitter molested her. “Whether I’m lying or telling the truth, there’s something broken inside,” she says.

Naturally, Joshua’s no longer looks at Hannah as this refreshing “beauty” who stumbled upon his doorstep, but rather this crazy with a whole lot of issues.  And naturally she sees right through him. “You think I’m a crazy? If anything, I think I’m too smart and too sensitive and not crazy.” Call it smart, call it sensitive, call it crazy…I’m going to call it painfully revealing.

It’s the real Hannah, with all the crabby, coke and craziness aside. It’s the Carrie in Hannah if you ask me.

So many people have compared “Girls” to “Sex & The City,” calling it a modern day version of the beloved series. This is the first honest “Sex & The City”-like episode. The first because of it’s relatability. We all may (or may not) want a handsome, well-established Dr. Joshua to stay in, share the paper, cuddle and play ping pong with but it’s safe to say we all want to be happy. Sure, happiness comes in various forms, but it’s a general state of being that I don’t think too many of us would turn down. 

Sure, the episode caught me off guard, but when does Lena ever do something typical?

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