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  'Girls' Finale Recap: You're the Future. I Guess | ARTICLE

  If I didn't make it clear before, let me just reiterate how much I love Crazy Hannah. The nervous tics, the burgeoning hypochondria ("Do millions of microbes really live on our skin?" she googles. "At what age...

  March 18, 2013 7:25 AM ET
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  'Girls' Recap: My Life on My Back | ARTICLE

  Even if their relationship has been fucked from day one, it seemed inevitable that Adam and Hannah would find their way back to one another by the end of the second season. Hannah...

  March 11, 2013 9:20 AM ET
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  'Girls' Recap: Too Many Freaks, Not Enough Circuses | ARTICLE

  In the interest of full disclosure (a prerequisite for all good TV recaps), I watched last night's episode after attending a fundraiser at New York's UCB Theatre featuring monologues by Lena Dunham. As such, I am experiencing...

  March 4, 2013 9:00 AM ET
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  'Girls' Recap: Manifesting The Solution | ARTICLE

  If life really is a simulation, the Creator is one stone cold weirdo. The idea that reality is a simulation implies that there is intention or meaning in details as small and insignificant...

  February 24, 2013 9:30 PM ET
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  'Girls' Recap: They're Very Complex, They're Very Naive | ARTICLE

  Ah, back to the safety of a narrative! As much as everyone except me seemed to enjoy the self-contained sadness of last week's One Man's Trash

  February 17, 2013 9:30 PM ET
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  'Girls' Recap: The Moment You Drop It in, The Moment You Run | ARTICLE

  I guess you might call this week's installment of Girls something of a bottle episode. You also might call it the worst episode of

  February 11, 2013 8:20 AM ET
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  'Girls' Recap: Just Continue To Have A Ball | ARTICLE

  Tonight’s ep marks the second week of what I consider Girls' significant leveling up from last season. Take for example Hannah

  February 3, 2013 12:53 PM ET
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  'Girls' Recap: We Have So Many Memories | ARTICLE

  I know the subject is still totes verboten, but what if Lena Dunham's depiction of her body is basically the point of her creative endeavor? Or at least the most important part of her creative endeavor as...

  January 27, 2013 10:05 PM ET
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  'American Horror Story: Asylum' Recap: Like Mother, Like Son | ARTICLE

  While I've been ready to start handing out Emmys to AHS: Asylum since the second we first laid eyes on Pepper (R.I.P., Pep!), I'd like to send a special shout-out to the makeup artists who aged Sarah...

  January 23, 2013 11:05 PM ET
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  'Girls' Recap: I'm 100% Not Getting Weird | ARTICLE

  I'm with George on this one. It takes a stone-cold sociopath to roll one's eyes and make condescending grunts when confronted with one's infidelity, and that's even ignoring the part where Elijah managed to sleep with his...

  January 21, 2013 7:39 AM ET
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  'American Horror Story: Asylum' Recap: The Future Is Coming | ARTICLE

  We're coming into the home stretch, and Ryan Murphy is putting the pedal to the metal! Full throttle! God, I wish I knew anything about baseball or cars to flesh out those idioms, but you know what...

  January 16, 2013 11:05 PM ET
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  'Girls' Premiere Recap: I Feel How I Feel When I Feel It | ARTICLE

  While the hairy leg we see at the beginning of last night's Girls premiere is sadly not Lena Dunham's (as I silently hoped and prayed), I for one am happy to welcome back Dunham's naked body to...

  January 14, 2013 8:55 AM ET
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  'American Horror Story: Asylum' Recap: A Mother's Work Is Never Done | ARTICLE

  I honestly feel like AHS: Asylum and I are in a successful long-term relationship at this point. Just when I start to take it for granted, just when I think I know it better than it knows...

  January 9, 2013 11:05 PM ET
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  'American Horror Story: Asylum' Recap: All About Judy | ARTICLE

  Well, it finally happened. We arrived at an episode of AHS: Asylum that made me grumble under my breath, "Okay, sure, but what about. . .?" I didn't object when Sister Jude saw a goddamn alien at...

  January 2, 2013 11:05 PM ET
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  'American Horror Story: Asylum' Recap: Calm Down, Mommy | ARTICLE

  This week's episode was truly one for the LAY-DIIIIIIIES! That is to say, it was an episode seemingly written specifically to make the female fury rise, ladies knees' lock together and womanly faces freeze into masks of...

  December 12, 2012 11:05 PM ET
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  'American Horror Story: Asylum' Recap: He Knows When You’ve Been Sleeping | ARTICLE

  It's beginning to look a lot like Santa rape! Apparently, I'm more precious about Christmas than I am about Anne Frank, because there were more than a few moments in this week's episode that had my face...

  December 5, 2012 11:05 PM ET
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  'American Horror Story: Asylum' Recap: The Dark Angel Rises | ARTICLE

  What is it about an older woman with a perfectly drawn lip that makes me want to give her my immortal soul? Francis Conroy wouldn't be the first person I thought of when I pictured the Dark...

  November 28, 2012 11:05 PM ET
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  'American Horror Story: Asylum' Recap: Baby Needs Colostrum | ARTICLE

  This week on AHS: Asylum, Bloody Face a.k.a. Dr. Thredson finally gets to tell his side of the flesh-rending story to a cowering Lana. Like every serial killer since the beginning of time, he is one long-winded,...

  November 21, 2012 11:05 PM ET
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  'American Horror Story: Asylum' Recap: Instincts Are Everything | ARTICLE

  So it wasn't Anne Frank after all. OR WAS IT? No, I don't believe it was. AND YET. Before we learn the "true" identity of Anne, however, Sister Jude pays a visit to Mr. Goodman, a kindly...

  November 14, 2012 11:05 PM ET
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  'American Horror Story: Asylum' Recap: Your Story Is Indecent | ARTICLE

  Call me a prude, but my monocle must have fallen off my face and into a steaming pile of synthetic intestines six or seven times last night. I haven't the constitution to handle skin-removing aliens, misogynist serial...

  November 7, 2012 11:05 PM ET