{"id":1888184,"date":"2026-04-17T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1888184"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:51:00","slug":"8-generation-defining-moments-from-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1888184","title":{"rendered":"8 generation-defining moments from Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/146-0-1620-1080\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443480.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/film-tv\/article\/70104\/1\/8-generation-defining-moments-hbo-girls-marnie-hannah-lena-dunham-adam-driver\" data-article-id=\"70104\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-landscape-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.78\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Girls, (TV STILL)\" class=\"img\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1400\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443480.jpg\" width=\"1920\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Girls, (TV STILL)<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-04-17T15:51:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"17 April 2026\"><span class=\"month\">April<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"17\">17,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - film-tv\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/film-tv\">Film &amp; TV<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/lists\">Lists<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/film-tv\">Film &amp; TV<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/lists\">Lists<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>8 generation-defining moments <span class=\"nowrap\">from Girls<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>To mark the 14th anniversary of the hit HBO show, we\u2019re looking back at some of our <span class=\"nowrap\">favourite moments<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-04-17T15:51:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"17 April 2026\"><span class=\"month\">April<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"17\">17,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-04-17T15:51:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"17 April 2026\"><span class=\"month\">April<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"17\">17,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/HalimaJibril\">Halima Jibril<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang gave rise to the entire universe. Nothing had come close to the significance of this event, not until a 25-year-old <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/lena-dunham\"><span>Lena Dunham<\/span><\/a><span> dropped her hit TV show <\/span><em><span>Girls<\/span><\/em><span> on HBO 14 years ago, which changed \u2013 and continues to change \u2013 the lives of 20-somethings everywhere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hitting our screens in 2012, the comedy-drama depicted the lives of four deeply entitled, insecure and hilarious young women who have just entered the real world after finishing college. Hannah (Dunham), Marnie (Alison Williams), Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) are best friends who, as we learn over the course of six seasons, have deeply complicated relationships with each other. One of the incredibly refreshing things about <\/span><em><span>Girls<\/span><\/em><span> is that the young women of the show were not necessarily figures to aspire to, like their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/sex-and-the-city\"><em><span>Sex and the City<\/span><\/em><\/a><span> counterparts \u2013 instead, we constantly see them at their worst. And through their brutally honest depictions, we see ourselves. This is why the show has aged so well and found a whole new generation of fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In honour of its 14th anniversary, we are looking back at some of the most generation-defining moments from the hit show. There are so many scenes to pick from, but here are a few of our favourites.<\/p>\n<h1><span>THE VOICE OF A GENERATION<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-tiktok\" data-id=\"7336959853442649387\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>We could not make this list without including the line Miss Hannah Horvath is famous for. In the very first episode of season one, she set the tone for the rest of the show \u2013 she IS the voice of our generation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1><span>\u201cYOUR DAD IS GAY\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content has-tweet\" data-embed-type=\"media-twitter\" data-script-depends=\"twitter-widgets\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i am convinced this &quot;girls&quot; scene invented television <br \/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cRq1uARxcW\">pic.twitter.com\/cRq1uARxcW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ivy (@ohhhhhherewegoo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ohhhhhherewegoo\/status\/2024950803551653972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Hannah and Elijah have the most chaotic and romantic relationship that I\u2019ve ever seen on TV. We were first introduced to them in season one, episode three, through this iconic scene where Hannah learns that Elijah is gay, while she is attempting to confront him about potentially giving her HPV. It ends in a fight where Elijah tells Hannah her father is gay (which we learn later in the show is true).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span>MARNIE\u2019S HUMILIATION RITUALS<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"68cmKBbE_gc\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/68cmKBbE_gc\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Marnie is one of the most embarrassing characters in <\/span><em><span>Girls<\/span><\/em><span>, and that\u2019s saying something. In an attempt to get her ex-boyfriend Charlie back, in episode nine of season two, she performs a humiliation ritual by turning up at his app launch party and singing an acoustic cover of \u201cStronger\u201d by Kanye West. See also: her cover of \u201cWhat I Am\u201d, complete with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QsFEaJRnPeU\">toe-curling music video<\/a>, from season three.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1><span>HANNAH\u2019S OCD MELTDOWN<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-tiktok\" data-id=\"7403546114303020296\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>The final episode of <em data-start=\"55\" data-end=\"62\">Girls<\/em> season two sees Hannah in the throes of an OCD spiral as she attempts to write an entire book in a single day. It leaves her in a pit of self-destruction, culminating in her cutting off her hair \u2013 one of the most brutally honest on-screen depictions of the condition in recent memory. In her moment of need, her good friend and neighbour Laird Schlesinger was there to remind her that her illness did not, in fact, make her lose weight; instead, she still looks like her beautiful, voluptuous self. Right on, Laird.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1><span>SHOSHANA\u2019S OUTBURST\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"NeMgJDjktdY\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NeMgJDjktdY\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>A fan favourite of the Dazed team is Shoshanna\u2019s drunken outburst in season three, episode seven. I once had a friend who would say the worst things she thought about our friendship group when she was drunk. She was a nightmare \u2013 but I guess every friendship needs one of those.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1><span>\u00a0HANNAH FINDS OUT ABOUT <\/span><span>JESSA AND ADAM<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"hSIVAkT-2u8\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hSIVAkT-2u8\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>My heart was racing out of my chest when I first watched this episode from season five, episode seven. In the midst of trying to break up with her boyfriend, Fran (played by Jake Lacy), the episode ends with Hannah discovering that Jessa is falling in love with the former love of her life. As with most of the best writing on <em>Girls<\/em>, the power here lies in what\u2019s not said. See also: Hannah\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AbvKLlKaum4\">MOTH club speech<\/a> about jealousy in the season finale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1>THE PANIC IN CENTRAL PARK<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"j_M-gY2JJ-I\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j_M-gY2JJ-I\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe Panic In Central Park\u201d, in season 5 of <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Girls<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, is one of the most romantic and heartbreaking episodes in television history. Having Charlie (Christopher Abbott) return to the show, following an alleged fallout with Dunham, created a truly special and unforgettable episode, which marked a definitive end to his relationship with Marnie.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1><span>\u201cGOOD SOUP\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"qUYu7GJ5XKg\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qUYu7GJ5XKg\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>After a deeply romantic, insane and delirious courtship, Hannah and Adam finally realise by season six that their relationship simply won\u2019t work. 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Get The Drop<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta-row\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"confirmation\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"confirmation-title\">Thank you. You have been subscribed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang gave rise to the entire universe. Nothing had come close to the significance of this event, not until a 25-year-old <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/lena-dunham\"><span>Lena Dunham<\/span><\/a><span> dropped her hit TV show <\/span><em><span>Girls<\/span><\/em><span> on HBO 14 years ago, which changed \u2013 and continues to change \u2013 the lives of 20-somethings everywhere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hitting our screens in 2012, the comedy-drama depicted the lives of four deeply entitled, insecure and hilarious young women who have just entered the real world after finishing college. Hannah (Dunham), Marnie (Alison Williams), Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) are best friends who, as we learn over the course of six seasons, have deeply complicated relationships with each other. One of the incredibly refreshing things about <\/span><em><span>Girls<\/span><\/em><span> is that the young women of the show were not necessarily figures to aspire to, like their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/sex-and-the-city\"><em><span>Sex and the City<\/span><\/em><\/a><span> counterparts \u2013 instead, we constantly see them at their worst. And through their brutally honest depictions, we see ourselves. This is why the show has aged so well and found a whole new generation of fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In honour of its 14th anniversary, we are looking back at some of the most generation-defining moments from the hit show. There are so many scenes to pick from, but here are a few of our favourites.<\/p>\n<h1><span>THE VOICE OF A GENERATION<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-tiktok\" data-id=\"7336959853442649387\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>We could not make this list without including the line Miss Hannah Horvath is famous for. In the very first episode of season one, she set the tone for the rest of the show \u2013 she IS the voice of our generation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1><span>\u201cYOUR DAD IS GAY\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content has-tweet\" data-embed-type=\"media-twitter\" data-script-depends=\"twitter-widgets\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i am convinced this &quot;girls&quot; scene invented television <br \/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cRq1uARxcW\">pic.twitter.com\/cRq1uARxcW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ivy (@ohhhhhherewegoo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ohhhhhherewegoo\/status\/2024950803551653972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Hannah and Elijah have the most chaotic and romantic relationship that I\u2019ve ever seen on TV. We were first introduced to them in season one, episode three, through this iconic scene where Hannah learns that Elijah is gay, while she is attempting to confront him about potentially giving her HPV. It ends in a fight where Elijah tells Hannah her father is gay (which we learn later in the show is true).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span>MARNIE\u2019S HUMILIATION RITUALS<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"68cmKBbE_gc\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/68cmKBbE_gc\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Marnie is one of the most embarrassing characters in <\/span><em><span>Girls<\/span><\/em><span>, and that\u2019s saying something. In an attempt to get her ex-boyfriend Charlie back, in episode nine of season two, she performs a humiliation ritual by turning up at his app launch party and singing an acoustic cover of \u201cStronger\u201d by Kanye West. See also: her cover of \u201cWhat I Am\u201d, complete with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QsFEaJRnPeU\">toe-curling music video<\/a>, from season three.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1><span>HANNAH\u2019S OCD MELTDOWN<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-tiktok\" data-id=\"7403546114303020296\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>The final episode of <em data-start=\"55\" data-end=\"62\">Girls<\/em> season two sees Hannah in the throes of an OCD spiral as she attempts to write an entire book in a single day. It leaves her in a pit of self-destruction, culminating in her cutting off her hair \u2013 one of the most brutally honest on-screen depictions of the condition in recent memory. In her moment of need, her good friend and neighbour Laird Schlesinger was there to remind her that her illness did not, in fact, make her lose weight; instead, she still looks like her beautiful, voluptuous self. Right on, Laird.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1><span>SHOSHANA\u2019S OUTBURST\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"NeMgJDjktdY\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NeMgJDjktdY\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>A fan favourite of the Dazed team is Shoshanna\u2019s drunken outburst in season three, episode seven. I once had a friend who would say the worst things she thought about our friendship group when she was drunk. She was a nightmare \u2013 but I guess every friendship needs one of those.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1><span>\u00a0HANNAH FINDS OUT ABOUT <\/span><span>JESSA AND ADAM<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"hSIVAkT-2u8\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hSIVAkT-2u8\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>My heart was racing out of my chest when I first watched this episode from season five, episode seven. In the midst of trying to break up with her boyfriend, Fran (played by Jake Lacy), the episode ends with Hannah discovering that Jessa is falling in love with the former love of her life. As with most of the best writing on <em>Girls<\/em>, the power here lies in what\u2019s not said. See also: Hannah\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AbvKLlKaum4\">MOTH club speech<\/a> about jealousy in the season finale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1>THE PANIC IN CENTRAL PARK<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"j_M-gY2JJ-I\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j_M-gY2JJ-I\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe Panic In Central Park\u201d, in season 5 of <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Girls<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, is one of the most romantic and heartbreaking episodes in television history. Having Charlie (Christopher Abbott) return to the show, following an alleged fallout with Dunham, created a truly special and unforgettable episode, which marked a definitive end to his relationship with Marnie.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1><span>\u201cGOOD SOUP\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"qUYu7GJ5XKg\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qUYu7GJ5XKg\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>After a deeply romantic, insane and delirious courtship, Hannah and Adam finally realise by season six that their relationship simply won\u2019t work. The realisation dawns on them slowly in this scene, and we watch as they both begin to well up, bringing their long love affair to a close without \u2013 in classic Dunham style \u2013 ever directly putting it into words.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! Get The Drop<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta-row\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"confirmation\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"confirmation-title\">Thank you. 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