Also, we don't think of "A" as "perfection." We think of it as a series highpoint. And I definitely think this was a highpoint of Girls so far. We have a grade for perfection; it's the A+, and we don't give it out.

To give something a C, I would have to genuinely dislike it, and Girls has yet to produce an episode I've outright disliked (though it's come close on a couple of occasions). There's usually something there to save it for me.

Just the type of stuff I imagine her writing—quirky, well-hewn stories about modern life in the city—is definitely in their wheelhouse. Iowa's gotten a bit more adventurous in recent years, but they tend to love navel gazing.

Last year, yeah, my top 15 or 16 were all shows I gave an A for their seasons. The year before, I had, I think, four shows I gave an A. It really varies.

I hate grading episodes of TV. I like grading seasons, because it gives me a rough rubric to use when I make my top 10 at the end of the year (when I almost always forget stuff), but grading episodes feels, to me, like shooting fish in a barrel, even with our general grading guidelines. In general, the writers here…

Well, we know Hannah's lying to Adam, because she said in episode two that she applies every year.

I very rarely hand out A's, actually. I don't know where this idea arose that I give Girls A's every week. My season grade for it indicates a show that will probably be in my top 20 but probably not my top 10, and might fall out of the top 20 if it's a particularly strong year for TV (as it was last year).

It's not easy to break into Broadway, but it makes more sense for a novice to do so there than, say, suddenly get a major part in a feature film.

This episode got an A because I felt it deserved an A.

I'm wondering if they'll do a time jump to, at the very least, the summer between Hannah's two years at Iowa.

Hannah's exactly the kind of person who would get into Iowa, though, if she's even a half-good writer. That said, my one hangup is that I don't know if she writes fiction. On the other hand, if she applied to their creative nonfiction program, that's much easier to get into.

And that's only half of it!

Well, uh, I think you're still going to have plenty of suspense next week. Without spoiling anything.

I started watching Adventure Time midway through season four, loved it, and went back to fill in gaps later on. I think the idea that we need to start watching from episode one for every show in creation ultimately hurts more than it helps.

Stuff about the soundtrack is coming in a few weeks. Suffice to say it gets weirder.

Nah, the writers gave some interviews where they talked about using Leyla in that fashion. They're linked to on Wiki.

I have always thought it would be cool to do The Wire last, but it probably won't work out that way.

Most of my friends are women, and that's always been the case. So I might not be the best judge of this. But yes!

Yes, this is all important.

An article where three of the four writers agree they would gladly watch more, even after having seen a random middle-of-the-season episode mostly out of context and the other writer won't watch more, but only because he doesn't like the genre and finds it viscerally uncomfortable, while still recognizing that it's…