Watching Girls Season 3: A Recap Of Episodes 1 and 2

FEMALES ONLY/TRUTH OR DARE

This Week On Girls: With neither job nor friends, heroic Adam did save Hannah from late-Season OCD; now she's Enjoying Professional Success (“mental illness is something we can work with!”) with hair “like a little boy on a fancy cookie box” and sweet psychoanalysis from (the brilliant) Bob Balaban. But the rom-com reunion didn't hold for dumped Marnie, now sleeping under Rainbow Brite sheets on mom's couch. She's forever on the verge of Charlie-themed tears; but Adam salves with savage heartbreak counsel. He claims he hates Hannah's friends, but he's cosmic kin with “sexually-adventurous,” sitcom-wise Shosh, and old enough to rent a car to collect Jessa from upstate rehab. There, Jessa's mocking “methface” Kim Gordon, eating-out closeted Danielle Brooks, and dabbling in daddy-issues with dapper Richard E. Grant. Out-of-Brooklyn Girls is the best Girls, although Hannah - the 21st-century citizen manifest: living life to blog about it - laments on the unkooky drive “this roadtrip is not a metaphor”; not even with a spontaneous detour. In bed or in car, our main couple's mutual-dependence borders on Mars/Venus functionality; but the Hannah/Jessa “female friendship” seethes with lingering dysfunction and eternal resentment.

Hannah Nudity Watch: A whole post-coital phonecall arguing with Jessa.

Shosh Amaze Meter: Off the charts for Truth Or Dare.

The Tao Of Adam: “Boredom is for lazy people with no imagination.”