The conclusion that the show is an authentic portrayal of life for a particular subset of people who grew up in extraordinary circumstances in New York (like having the New York Times cover your highschool dinner party) is one I've come to. Except the character of Hannah isn't supposed to represent those people. She's…

That could explain why he desired her, despite never showing any other tangible reason as to why that would be so, but love would certainly still be a stretch.

Believe me when I say I'm trying to reach a greater understanding of this show. Usually when it comes to polarizing artists, I come down on the side of the person getting people worked up and in a twist. Add to that all the great praises critics bestow on this show and I'm left feeling as though there's something I'm…

Let's see if you can hold yourself to that.

Why do you care what I think? I've had to read 4 years of thinkpieces saying how great this show is. If my opinion is that it never adds up, why wouldn't I be allowed to join the discussion about the show?

So grown women act like entitled children and face no repercussions for it. Seems about right for this show.

I hope the idea of a music/film obsessed nerd in his 30s and an NYU grad just back from living in Japan and specializing in brand management deciding to portray themselves as anti-hipster was meant to be a joke. But I really never can tell with this show.

But this is years after Allen Ginsburg and Lenny Bruce. That fight was over.

The show is nothing but fires, take your pick. Adam and Jessa is a fire. Her going to the apartment and hearing them fight and deciding not to join in or be a part of it, is a decision not to escalate things. That is her deciding not to do something destructive, but it isn't so much growth that her character is…

These things have to be demonstrated, otherwise they're not earned. There's always going to be suspension of disbelief in any work of fiction, and if you want to go easy on the exposition and just start off with "this is how things are. that's just how it is" that's fine for something like Mad Max, but this is…

What maturity did that Moth story show? That she for once didn't pour gasoline on a fire? I suppose that's a step, but it's not the same as putting out a fire.

I'm sure it'll happen just after they sort out the fall out from the trashed $50K coffee truck, at 5 minutes past never.

But why?! I can't just turn off my brain like that.

I'm not asking for cliches and tropes, I'm trying to get a grip on the motivations of the characters and a sense of any of the emotions the viewers are expected to feel being earned.

Wasn't Hannah going through her own OCD thing at the same time Jessa was going through the whole rehab thing? Wasn't Adam the one who was actually there for both of them at those times? And that was after the trip upstate to see Jessa's parents, where Hannah had sex with Jessa's brother and then Jessa ditched her to…

I said it trumps failing friendships, not friendship in general. If you can tell me why Jessa and Hannah would want to continue being friends at this point, please share. I understand that we are to believe that they had a good time together in college, but those are the types of relationships that fall by the wayside…

From my perspective, it would seem that Jessa and Adam are two characters suited for each other, but the specter of Hannah is always the axe dangling over their relationship. Is that Hannah's fault directly or are they the victims of circumstance, wherein Hannah becomes their straw man. Probably the latter, but the…

If anyone could give me one reason as to why Fran would be in love with Hannah, I would love to hear it.

Was she or was she not the reason for their fight?

And then by proxy she compliments her own creation by saying what an authentic life she's leading, removing any sense of self-awareness I thought she might have had in the minute previous.