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The Season 4 finale seemed to delicately hint that there might be more to the blossoming friendship between Adam and Jessa, and Sunday night’s episode confirmed it. The fifth season premiere is a reminder that recent seasons have done a lot to push the girls in different directions, and that they've rarely been together as a quartet.
Girls still feels like Girls, albeit a less surprising version than it was back at the start, and that bumpy transition into real maturity should provide some good material for everyone as the series moves through these last two years.
As relationships take on new shades of meaning as they become grounded and real, Girls begins to really build something wonderful. Dare we call it ... maturity?
Endearing, alienating, genuinely funny, and regularly contemptible, the fifth season of Girls remains the best-acted, best-written reason to scream into a pillow on a weekly basis.
Interestingly enough, in the show's penultimate season, Dunham's self-absorbed creation is... more sharply focused, fascinating and flat-out funny than ever before.
The manner in which Hannah's family ties have evolved represent the very best of Girls: A show that has become convinced it's about a group of pals, but one that should be about the birth of one adult consciousness.