TV.com

Girls Season 2 Episode 6

Boys

Favorite

Watched It I've Watched This 9

Next
Episode Previous
Episode

8.3

User Rating

31 votes

Your Rating: 10
Your Rating: 9.5
Your Rating: 9
Your Rating: 8.5
Your Rating: 8
Your Rating: 7.5
Your Rating: 7
Your Rating: 6.5
Your Rating: 6
Your Rating: 5.5
Your Rating: 5
Your Rating: 4.5
Your Rating: 4
Your Rating: 3.5
Your Rating: 3
Your Rating: 2.5
Your Rating: 2
Your Rating: 1.5
Your Rating: 1

Rate Now

EPISODE REVIEWS
By TV.com Users

Write A Review

Episode Summary

EDIT

HBO GO

Subscription

AIRED: 2/17/13

Marnie is asked to act as hostess for an art party thrown by Booth Jonathan and Hannah signs a publishing contract for e-books. Meanwhile, Adam manages to convince Ray to join him on an adventure.

Fan Episode Reviews (1)

Watching Fireflies

8.0

By Neksmater, Feb 18, 2013

We see a different side of Girls this week as a majority of the episode follows Ray hanging out with Adam. Ray going back to get his personal copy of Little Women and finding out that Adam stole a dog and locked it in his bathroom was really out of the blue. I also like how Adam managed to rope him in with the idea of being "extra muscle" when he returned it to the owner. Him referring to it as "Dog" was pretty funny too. Marnie hosts a party at Booth Jonathan's and wears a futuristic dress. Booth is a total douche and firing his assistant for taking a bite out of his ice cream was almost as sociopathic as stealing a dog for company. Hannah's e-Book deal seemed to both horrify and enliven her. Also her ninja vomit after the guy from Pumped Magazine left was amusing. While she says that she's getting so much done on it she's just surfing the web and writing one sentence of chapter one. Jessa is down in the dumps and takes a nihilistic crap all over Hannah saying "none of it matters" and "won't change the While Hannah can learn from this to start writing by not taking herself too seriously both of them not being able to admit that they're not both super depressed is poetic as all of the characters (exempting Shoshanna) had melancholy moments this week. Seeing Adam just leave Ray to deliver the dog after talking about Hannah (which is a subject he still is too overly sensitive on) proved that he is not over her. That Staten Island girl was horrifying it was like seeing a troll above ground but hopefully she was going to a bridge to hide under which is a consolation. Ray breaks down with the dog not knowing what to do with his life to impress Shoshanna. Marnie "breaks up" with Booth even though he says that they were never together. Her being so sure as to what they were and then seeing her crushed like that was hard to watch. Booth then saying that people only like the idea of him and not actually knowing him was way on the nose. Him wanting to pay her was not unreasonable even if they had been together. But Booth making her misunderstanding about him and breaking his wine bottles wanted to make me shout "F**k you!" at him since someone with his ego needs to be cut down to size when someone else is in a moment of crisis and they make it about them (often like Hannah does). But this was a meditative episode especially towards the end with Marnie and Hannah's phone call with Marnie lying about being in Booth's garden "Watching fireflies" simply to make Hannah jealous which succeeds while Hannah still can't find the words to put to cyber paper. Hannah now has a ticking clock on her writing deadline which could be an excellent source of conflict to draw upon. Her being recognized that guy as "the girl who had her period at Dairy Queen" was SO awkward even though she insisted that she wasn't. Decent episode but I only give shows a certain leeway period of "boo hoo" before I just say that they have to go out and do something since so many shows (and real life people) simply wallow in their own self hatred which is an easy trap. And while wallowing is what real people do in a TV series I expect characters to actively yearn to want to be happy which is what the cast of Girls is always in process of doing no matter how privileged or spoiled they may seem their happiness is in a state of flux which is what really make a show about young twenty-somethings work and can draw endless conflict from given the right spark.moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
2 1

Flag
Share Hide

See All Fan Reviews

Cast & Crew: STARS

EDIT

Lena Dunham	Hannah Horvath
Allison Williams	Marnie Michaels
Jemima Kirke	Jessa Johansson
Zosia Mamet	Shoshanna Shapiro
Adam Driver	Adam Sackler
Alex Karpovsky	Ray Ploshansky

See All Cast & Crew

Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

EDIT

Jorma Taccone	Booth Jonathon	Guest Star
John Cameron Mitchell	David Pressler-Goings	Guest Star
Greta Lee	Su Jin	Guest Star

See All Cast & Crew

Watch Online

HBO GO

Subscription

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

FILTER BY TYPE

TRIVIA (1)
ADD TRIVIA
- Music
  Sugars Boat by The Oh Sees
  Fever Dreaming by No Age
  Kiss Kiss Kiss by Yoko Ono & Peaches
  Fool To Cry by Tegan & Sara
  EDIT SHARE
QUOTES (0)
ADD QUOTES
- ADD QUOTES from this episode.
NOTES (1)
ADD NOTES
- Original International Air Dates:
  Czech Republic: March 12, 2013 on HBO
  EDIT SHARE
ALLUSIONS (0)
ADD ALLUSIONS
- ADD ALLUSIONS from this episode.