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Too Much Recap: Memory Lane
Lena Dunham utilizes every tool in her toolbox to craft a genuine character out of Zev and a compelling story of his relationship with Jess.
During the first third of this episode, I was thinking that as frustrating as Jess can be — self-absorbed and out of touch and with her priorities out of whack — you can’t blame a woman for going berserk after being left for someone who looks like Emily Ratajkowski and, later, when it turns out the new guy you’re obsessed with is best friends with someone who looks like Adèle Exarchopoulos. He finesses pizza tickets at the Alligator Lounge for Jess after her friends ditch her; on her 29th birthday, he waits outside of her office with a cupcake and tells her he loves her for the first time; he is sweet with her nephew and even sweeter with her grandma, whose feet he rubs. Then, he’s telling her it’s selfish of her not to work on her “anxious attachment style.” When his Ivy League friends come over for a dinner party, he chastises her for bringing up Vanderpump Rules when the topic of discussion is Lacanian jouissance ( kill me, I groaned).
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