![]() “There’s too much history here,” he tells her. They talk about what their future will look like, why they want this baby, and how much sense it makes for them to be together. Much of the episode is dedicated to Hannah and Adam playing a game of Castles in the Sky. He proposes that they raise the baby together, and the next thing you know, they’re in her apartment having very careful sex, giddy and loving and self-conscious. When he tracks her down to the bodega where she’s stocking up on Popsicles, there’s only the barest hesitation on her part. It’s sparked by Adam telling Jessa, straight out, that he has to explore a future with Hannah and that he’s sorry, but there’s nothing else he could do. As we knew might be the case at the end of episode seven, Hannah and Adam go running at each other headlong. “What Will We Do This Time About Adam?” addresses that looming, portentous “will they get back together” feeling that the season has been building toward, while also putting to rest all my fears about that possible ending. I was concerned about what that might say about where Girls wants to take Hannah, and what that would retroactively do to her arc as a character. At the same time, I was leery about the image of Hannah at the end of this show, fairy-tale love partner in hand. It was clear that Girls was gesturing toward that possibility, and planned to confront it in some way. I laid out some of the evidence for why that might be where the show wants to go: the idea of them coming full circle, Adam’s preoccupation with parenthood and child-rearing, how Adam and Hannah both reexamine their past through his movie. ![]() A few weeks ago, I wrote about the possibility of Hannah and Adam reuniting at the end of Girls. ![]()
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