"Latching" was an inverse of the pilot episode where Hannah is kicked out and forcibly removed from her parental teat. It's fitting, of course, but also frustrating. Instead we got the coda, "Latching," which was all about Hannah. The core girl group officially broke up (finally), and that was the last we saw of Jemima Kirke's Jessa and Zosia Mamet's Shoshanna.įor fans on the fence or who have occasionally hate-watched the show (this was me throughout most of the first seasons, though I did genuinely enjoy Season 5), the show might have won some kudos with that as the finale - but it didn't stop there. We had seen what happened to most of the major characters in those last episodes: Ray ( Alex Karpovsky) unexpectedly found love, Adam ( Adam Driver) is presumably back with Jessa, Caroline ( Gaby Hoffman) came back to take care of Sample, and Elijah ( Andrew Rannells) got the lead in White Men Can't Jump.
The conclusion of Lena Dunham's HBO series was designed, somehow, to fit into exactly all three of those expectations. It wasn't really a series finale, either, so much as an epilogue - as has been pointed out since "Goodbye Tour" last week, that was really the end of the series. Whether you loved, hate-watched, or just felt "meh" about Girls as a whole is likely the same lens by which you watched the series finale.