She had been pregnant for much of the season, but in the series finale of “Girls” on HBO Sunday, titled “Latching,” we finally got a glimpse at how Hannah Horvath would handle motherhood. After a five-month time jump that skipped over her son Grover’s birth, the episode found Hannah and Marnie moving upstate to raise the baby as co-parents. If you’ve already watched it, read on for some of the best analyses of how Lena Dunham, Jenni Konner and Judd Apatow ended their perennially divisive series. Even so, Framke concludes that, “‘Latching’ is, even for ‘Girls,’ a disorienting and bleak episode. But, she writes, “The problem is that ‘Latching’ couldn’t take a breather from ‘Girls’s long-term storytelling; as a series finale, it’s automatically a part of that storytelling process — and arguably the most important one.

Source: New York Times April 17, 2017 16:34 UTC