15 Things You Finally Noticed When You Rewatched HBO's Raunchiest Show

For those of you who lived under a rock for the past six years, HBO's critically acclaimed series Girls ended it's six season run on somewhat of a low/high (depending how you looked at it, I suppose) spectrum. The series was a somewhat darker version of the Emmy Award winning Sex in the City, but featuring more obnoxious characters (bet you didn't think THAT was possible). The show revolved around Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) and her three girlfriends Marnie Michaels (Allison Williams), Jessa Johansson (Jemima Kirke), and Shoshanna Shapiro (Zosia Mamet) and their dysfunctional as hell relationships - both with men and each other - in modern day New York City. Even though the show ended on April of this year, we can still get a kick and torture ourselves to death by rewatching the series and catching some things you never caught before - or, you know, just make fun of it all over again. Here are 15 things I noticed when I decided to rewatch the hit series. Now keep in mind, I actually LIKED the series the first time around, believe it or not.

15 Why, Why, Why Did No One Punch Hannah In The Face?

In the pilot episode, I was so baffled by Lena Dunham's main character Hannah. She was ungrateful in such a way that I literally wanted to step through my TV and slap her more than a couple of times. She whined so hard when her parents told her they were cutting her off that it almost turned me off of the show all together. Her vapid narcissism made me wonder how could she possibly hold onto any friends unless they were just as narcissistic as she. And it was even worse the second time I watched the series. Thing is, I admired Dunham's ambition and the fact that she, along with executive producer Judd Apatow, gave this particular show life. Throughout the entire series, we're forced to restrain ourselves as Hannah OCD'ed her way through life and complained about everything from her friends to the thickness of the air. Ugh.

14 Or ANY of the Characters For That Matter

I still don't understand how Hannah was the dysfunctional glue that held together this wack-a-doodle group of friends. Hannah's best friend and former roommate Marnie seems like the most ideal candidate to take down Hannah a notch, but the more you watch, the more you realized she was just as self-centered as the rest, but with a more of a vision than her friend. She appeared to have more going for her in her art career in the beginning of the series, but after she's fired from the art gallery where she works, she starts to pursue her dream of making it in the music industry - which blows the hell up in her face. And yes, Marnie almost looks normal compared to Hannah and the other two - hippy Jessa and innocent Shoshanna, both of whom I wanted to smack upside the head a little bit. Second time I watched it? I wanted to run over them with a bulldozer.

13 How Did No One Kill Adam, Like, Ever? Even Kill Him A Little Bit?

OMG IT'S KYLO REN FROM STAR WARS!!!! ACK! While I adore Adam Driver the actor and now Broadway baby, I utterly loathe his character on Girls. It was one thing when it came to his on again-off again causal relationship with Hannah, but I have something to say about his relationship with Natalia (Shiri Appleby): ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME??? For those of you who tried to blow that entire relationship from your mind, Natalia was Adam's girlfriend in the third season of the series, and while the first time they got intimate it was consensual, the second time WAS DEFINITELY NOT, OH HOLY CRAP. Natalia's friends clearly got a horrible vibe from Adam when she first introduces him to them and after they retreat back to his apartment in order to get intimate a second time, he gets demanding (from making her crawl on all fours even though the ground was covered in nails and such) and ignores her when she clearly says “No” to certain acts. He pretty much assaulted her in that scene and got away with it. And yet the character still plundered about during the rest of the show's run. Shoo!

12 Why The Hell Is Everyone So Fickle?

I get bored whenever I hear people complain about the fickleness of the millennial generation, and the HBO series seemed to cement that picture in the minds of older generations: THIS is how this young generation acts. Um, how about a BIG FAT NO. During its run, the characters have been known to be both aloof to actual human emotions and their own perplexing fickleness. Hannah struggles with “finding herself” while she attempts to get a job as a working writer and while she mainly stays on course for a while, she eventually gives it up. Marnie is so freaking fickle from her career to the men in her life (yes, she was married, but of course, that fell flat). Jessa was bohemian so obviously she was all over the damn map. While the fickleness was a ploy of creator Dunham's, it was annoying as all hell.

11 Most Of The "Funny" Scenes Were Just Plain Sad

Why is it that on the show, drama seemed boring and what was considered funny was in fact not? It's not for lack of trying, however (nor did the show try “too hard” as most people who hate the show would say) and while Dunham had a wonderfully ambitious outlook for the show, it didn't really feel like it in the long run. One of the “funny” moments of the show was when Hannah, while cleaning out her ear with a q-tip, accidentally pierces her ear drum, screams bloody murder, and has to high-tail it over to the ER. I HATED watching that scene, mainly because of Hannah's reaction to the pain. It more so made me uncomfortable when I watched it for the first time, but apparently, it was supposed to pass as comedy on the show, and I never understood for the life of me WHY.

10 Hannah Does, Actually, Grow Up At One Point, But It Was Way Too Late

OH HOLY CRAP, DID A LATE 20-SOMETHING YEAR OLD GIRL FINALLY GROWS UP AFTER LIVING ON HER OWN IN THE BIG BAD CITY FOR SIX YEARS? The fact that all these women only succeeded in getting more callow and immature as the years progressed was depressing to any millennial who happened to turn on the show on Sunday nights. This character showed little promise at being “the voice of a generation” (if the voice was a high pitched whine that only dogs could decipher) with her confidence (or, again, narcissism - however you looked at it), but it was muddled up by her ability to see anything beyond her own face. She was clearly a really horrible friend. But in the final couple seasons, Hannah began to see beyond her own nose and slowly began to acknowledge that other people must have feelings too. This was the case when it came to Marnie and Hannah's decision to let her best friend make her own horrible decisions instead of voicing them out loud (which she would have done in the past). The real milestone for the main character came when she decided to keep the baby she was pregnant with in season six. Making the decision to have and raise a child was the biggest step in Hannah's eventual adulthood, but it came way too late after the dust had settled.

9 Marnie's Insecurities Were a Major Buzzkill

I'm a little shocked that the daughter of Brian Williams would even want to play an insecure ninny on camera. In Marnie's life, she made massive decisions based on how other people saw her. She cared only for the image of herself in the eyes of people around her, not for the image she saw personally. It almost seems like Marnie was the product of other people's opinions and she constantly shifted based on her own insecurities. Here was this beautiful, intelligent, charismatic character who had yet to “find herself”. She was only good to people because she figured the part of “do-gooder” looked best on her. She was superficial in her do-good actions and would often attempt to drown herself in her insecurities. Did she need to get married to her music partner? No, but she thought that's what other people assumed she should do. It took a lot for Marnie to come around and finally start doing things for the sake of herself and not how others saw her.

8 Speaking Of Which, You Know Marnie Eventually Will Ditch Hannah, Right?

In the end, it was Marnie who was the selfless one and stepped up to help Hannah raise her baby. Now, while I'm sure narcissism came into play (especially with her line “I win at being your best friend” said shortly after she decided to help Hannah) and the thought of helping shape a young child's life was the ultimate good-deed, she agreed because she truly loved Hannah and finally stepped up in her time of need. But, I guarantee that Marnie won't stick around for too long. She seemed to be realizing some things about herself while she was sitting out on the porch, talking to Hannah's mom at the end of the series. You can almost see a light blub switching on in her head - like she was finally done with using herself for other people's happiness (yes, which she only did because she thought it looked good) and needed to focus on her own. Sorry, Hannah.

7 While Jessa DOES Grow Up Too, She Did It In The Worst Way Possible

THIS freaking character with her hippy attitude and weird makeup patterns (I sound like someone who yells “get off of my lawn!” to all the neighborhood kids - pardon). Jessa couldn't be relied on in ANY sort of fashion whatsoever. And to make matters worse, she fell in love with her best friend's boyfriend and literally had no remorse about it until the very end. When it happened, she was on the verge of actually growing up in the sense that she got all cleaned up and sober. A lot of viewers saw her falling for Adam as Jessa's own method of finally stepping into adulthood, but I saw it as a low blow move from someone who claimed to be a friend in the first place. However, I will give her this: she sincerely apologized to Hannah and realized the consequences of her actions. The Jessa in the very beginning of the show wouldn't have cared less about betraying a friend. So that is something, I suppose.

6 Shoshanna Was The Smartest One In The Group

I know you don't want to believe this, and neither did I when I watched the show the first time around. But after rewatching it, I realized much to my horror that his high-pitched fast talker was literally the most intelligent character out of the group of dummy millennials. From the very start, Shoshanna was the most self-aware of the group (which isn't all that self-aware compared to the rest of them), with her coveting her v-card like a golden statue (there's absolutely nothing wrong with that) and her idolizing the women of Sex in the City (okay, there's a lot wrong with that). But as the seasons wore on, she started seeing these “friends” for who they really were: Freaking toxic monsters. She made her way to Japan for her work, but ended up losing her job. In the process however, Shoshanna did what no one else could - she freaking found herself. And once she did, she said PEACE OUT to the other girls after seeing them for who they really were. Wise Shoshanna.

5 Why Did No One Respect Their Family?

Right from the get-go, if you were raised in a respectful family, you felt that Hannah's treatment of her parents was downright appalling. Given, she had that rich, entitled white girl mentality. After supporting their daughter for two years while she lived in New York City, her parents decided to cut her the hell off. “But I have no job!” Hannah cried. “Do you know how the economy is right now? All my friends get help from their parents.” Later on, her friends even convince her to suck the hell up to her parents for more money INSTEAD of getting a job. Seriously? Her parents laid down the ground rules, and you assume that sucking up will do the trick? She clearly had no respect for her parents and the fact that they were done paying for her. They were perplexed at her entitlement behavior, only she was mirroring her friends as well.

4 All The Relationships Were Down Right Abusive

There's dysfunctional relationships and then there's downright freaking abusive relationships. Hannah and Adam were clearly in one right from the start. He spoke to her like he hated her sometimes, and whenever they would part, he would pout in order to get her back. I don't understand where Dunham's logic came from here: she made her characters seem like being abusive was actually normal and they even portrayed it to be so. Adam has random bursts of anger that pop up all the time and after he and Hannah break up, he turns into a damn stalker. HEY, THAT'S NOT OKAY NOR IS IT ROMANTIC, ADAM. He berates Hannah, attempts to control her friendships, and even applauds her abuse with certain substances. And then she goes off and calls him a “great boyfriend.” The other characters had some pretty risky relationships too, but nothing like the one Adam had with Hannah.

3 Even Some Of The Actors Thought It Was Downright Horrible

You know a show is morally bad when even the actors say “Well, screw this crap - I'm gone”, which was apparently the case with Christopher Abbott, who played Marnie's on-again, off-again boyfriend Charlie during the first two seasons (and a little in the fifth season). Sources were quick to find out why Abbott suddenly left the show and they came back with “he didn't like the direction” the show was taking, which is understandable. Abbott was walking a fine line of being typecast too (my god, Charlie was boring and awkward, which is why Marnie kept trying to leave him. Though, he was also the most normal character on the show too… hum). Abbott graciously thanked both Dunham and Judd Apatow and appreciated the experience, but he was getting out of dodge. He said it was because he had projects lined up, but I didn't see him on anything else after he left the show.

2 Hannah Is Going To Be A Crappy Mother

All of y'all should have seen this one coming: Hannah is going to an abysmal mother. When everyone found out she was knocked up in the second to the last episode of the series, we all just shook our heads. When she decides to keep the child, she assumes that it will only help her skyrocket into adulthood, something she was just now getting used to. After finally coming out of the self-absorbed haze she was living in all her life, she finds out she's pregnant and now responsible for the life of another human being. Oh, holy crap balls. My favorite moment though was when she was making that list of the pros and cons of keeping the baby and on the cons was “I'm only 27” and “I act even younger than that,” which had me rolling. Aside from the fact that 27 is a perfectly acceptable age to have a child, she was right in saying that she acts younger than that. It was Elijah (Hannah's gay BFF played by Andrew Rannells) who says what we're all thinking: “You're going to be a terrible mother”. And god knows he's right.

1 Friendships? What Friendships?

No offense to the people who loved this show, but damn, the characters were downright HORRIBLE to each other. Young people should know that none of this was friendship. It's people stepping over each other in order to get somewhere else in life. It's like all these people were “frien-emies” (a portmanteau of “friend” and “enemy”) in high school and just took it with them in their 20's. That's not how 20 somethings treat each other if they claim to be close. Everything was a competition between these women and absolutely nothing was sincere. First of all, they had nothing in common with each other, and while that's not a deal breaker in friendship, it was one in theirs. They had no special redeeming qualities in their personalities and would cheer each other along whenever they did something stupid. That's not friendship, sorry Girls.