This Is 40 (2012)

 This Is 40 (2012)
134 min, Comedy, 21 December 2012 (USA)
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Girls, Season 2, Episode 7: “Video Games”
Written by Bruce Eric Kaplan and Lena Dunham
Directed by Richard Shephard
Original air date: February 24, 2013
In an episode totally in the spirit of season 1’s “The Return”, this week’s episode of Girls sees Jessa and Hannah take a little trip to the countryside to meet with Jessa’s father. Jessa is clearly feeling the emotional weight of divorce far more than she had anticipated and is spurred to visit her somewhat alienated father due to a cryptic message she receives from him (it is, most likely, a butt text). Her character seems to be at an opposite point of where she was just one year ago. Her lifestyle which was free-wheeling and adventurous now seems tired – almost tortured. She brings Hannah along on this search for emotional support from her somewhat alienated father, as a “cushion” to soften the conflict of the situation.

It becomes quite apparent that though Jessa’s childhood shaped her into the free-spirit she has become, the sort of laissez-fair – almost careless upbringing has left deep emotional scars. Shedding light on Jessa’s confusing marriage, we understand her impulse to settle down as a sort of revolution against her father’s own apparent disavowal of fidelity and responsibility. There is a tense song and dance at play in the dynamic of their relationship as they seem to take turns taking the lead and to follow, each disapproving of the other’s style of dance. In contrast with the relationship that Hannah has with her parents, where the roles between parent and child are quite clearly defined, here they are far more ambiguous. Jessa and her father are equals, not only in how similar they seem to be, but in the very nature of their relationship. They are less father and daughter, then two friends torn apart by time and neglect. Jessa seems to be at a turning point in her life, where she is searching for the stability of labels and social conventions as a means of pulling her through an apparent crisis of identity, hoping her father will fill that void.