Like “One Man’s Trash,” Girls never confirms that one way or the other. While the episode doesn’t have the dreamy fantasy quality of “One Man’s Trash” - it’s ultimately more nightmare than fantasy - I totally buy the idea that the Chuck–Hannah face-off could be a situation conjured by Hannah’s brain rather than something that actually happened to her. Co-starring Matthew Rhys as Chuck Palmer, a well-known author who’s been outed online for putting young women into uncomfortable, allegedly non-consensual sexual situations, “American Bitch” is a tense verbal dance between Chuck and Hannah about the power imbalance inherent in male/female interactions. Related StoriesĪ Final Vent Session With the Girls of GirlsĪny of those interpretations could also be applied to “ American Bitch,” the potentially polarizing episode that HBO just aired. ” Meanwhile, Vulture’s Matt Zoller Seitz argued that what made the episode so compelling was the way it toggled between fantasy and reality, without ever clarifying on which side of the line it fell. Club while also acknowledging that it represented “ everything people who hate Girls hate about Girls. Todd VanDerWerff raved about the episode for The A.V.
Slate’s “Guys on Girls” discussion asked, “ Was that the worst episode of Girls ever?” then more or less concluded that it was, because it was too difficult to believe that Hannah and Joshua would have such a spontaneous fling.
When the episode first aired back in 2013, it marked an especially divisive moment for an already divisive show. I’m referring to season two’s “ One Man’s Trash,” which places Hannah inside an impeccably renovated Brooklyn brownstone owned by a hot doctor named Joshua (Patrick Wilson). This week’s episode of Girls - in which Hannah Horvath spends the entire half-hour with an older man she barely knows - will remind you of another bottle episode in which Hannah Horvath spends the entire half-hour with an older man she barely knows. Spoilers ahead for the Girls episode “American Bitch,” which is streaming early on HBO Go and HBO Now.
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