Creative fiction still involves reporting and interviewing skills. I have a degree in creative nonfiction.

Ray and Shosh live together now so yeah, she definitely won't have to seek him out.

The show hasn't exactly been believable when it comes to depicting Hannah's career, but it's been downright baffling the last two or so seasons. Up until the moment she randomly gets into the best creative writing program in the world, I wasn't sure that Hannah was an actual writer or just someone who says she's a…

What would be great is if Billie Dean Howard shows up and Lily Rabe plays her in the re-enactment.

"the switching of the banners felt perfunctory instead of powerful, muddled by the fact that none of the characters seemed to be feeling it as any type of climax."

Didn't Margot Robie play a girl who wouldn't date Domhnall Gleeson in About Time?

It might be! I'm not convinced CleganeBowl is a thing, but I was just commenting to how it's not officially dead. I'm leaning towards it being one of those things that's too good to be true.

CleganeBowl is definitely not dead - they heavily alluded to it last week (with Jaime's cheeky "That's one trial by combat I can't wait to see" and mentions of the Hound), Cersei mentioned it again in this episode and if you're keen on episode title and set report spoilers… I'd say there's a pretty decent chance we…

Gah, actually I think I was wrong – I had seen a tweet saying it was full body, but I just read an article that says it was a mix - prosthetics + an older woman double blended together with CGI.

(Just jumping in to say it wasn't a real old lady body - it was the actress who plays Melisandre in full body prosthetics.)

The best part of these episodes that I haven't seen anyone else mention: The Hannah-Tally bike riding scene is a total Now & Then homage. Same song playing, same gleeful feeling of freedom with friends. That Gabby Hoffman is on Girls makes it even better.

I think Lena and Jenny are close but mostly through their careers. Her actual real life best friend is Audrey Gelman who played Charlie's feather-wearing hipster girlfriend and who was the initial basis for the character of Marnie.

That's definitely a good read on the character. I admittedly have the Harris novels burned deep in my brain which is why Hopkins just works so much better for me. But I like the idea of an alien-esque Hannibal.

At least he didn't eat you.

I actually disagree with all of the comments here. I think Mads is a good actor, but I never found him convincingly scary or right for the part. He was always cold and mannered, and predictably so. Hopkins worms his way into your psyche. He seems like your sort of obnoxiously flamboyant classics professor; someone who…

It's also worth pointing out that Lena said in the Inside the Episode that this situation was based on a real person who re-entered her life as an addict and later passed away. Knowing it was such a personal experience really gives the whole thing a lot of weight.

Would just like to point out that Adam Driver was cast in Star Wars after season two of Girls, meaning he's been working the show into his schedule for three years now. He actually filmed the last season of Girls on the weekends at the same time he was filming The Force Awakens, flying back and forth between New York…

I don't even disagree, I just thought it was worth mentioning that she didn't just shave some girl's head and tell her to play gender fluid. I'm not sure how I personally feel about the scene.

In the "inside the episode" Lena talked about letting Grace choose the lines for that scene. It is my impression that Grace is actually gender fluid (her family refers to her as Simon on Instagram) so it was at least done somewhat respectfully, or with the intention of being delicate about it.

Not just you - I agree.