List of Girls episodes
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Girls is an American comedy-drama television series created by Lena Dunham, who serves as executive producer along with Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner. The series premiered on HBO on April 15, 2012. Girls stars Dunham as Hannah Horvath, an aspiring writer in her 20s trying to navigate her personal and professional life in New York City after her parents discontinue their financial support. Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver, and Alex Karpovsky co-star as Hannah's circle of friends, who are also trying to figure out their own lives and relationships. During the course of the series, 62 episodes of Girls aired over six seasons, between April 15, 2012, and April 16, 2017.
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| Season | Episodes | Originally released | ||
| First released | Last released | |||
| 1 | 10 | April 15, 2012 (2012-04-15) | June 17, 2012 (2012-06-17) | |
| 2 | 10 | January 13, 2013 (2013-01-13) | March 17, 2013 (2013-03-17) | |
| 3 | 12 | January 12, 2014 (2014-01-12) | March 23, 2014 (2014-03-23) | |
| 4 | 10 | January 11, 2015 (2015-01-11) | March 22, 2015 (2015-03-22) | |
| 5 | 10 | February 21, 2016 (2016-02-21) | April 17, 2016 (2016-04-17) | |
| 6 | 10 | February 12, 2017 (2017-02-12) | April 16, 2017 (2017-04-16) | |
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | US viewers (millions) |
| 1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Lena Dunham | Lena Dunham | April 15, 2012 (2012-04-15) | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | "Vagina Panic" | Lena Dunham | Lena Dunham | April 22, 2012 (2012-04-22) | 0 |
| 3 | 3 | "All Adventurous Women Do" | Lena Dunham | Lena Dunham | April 29, 2012 (2012-04-29) | 0 |
| 4 | 4 | "Hannah's Diary" | Richard Shepard | Lena Dunham | May 6, 2012 (2012-05-06) | 0 |
| 5 | 5 | "Hard Being Easy" | Jesse Peretz | Lena Dunham | May 13, 2012 (2012-05-13) | 0 |
| 6 | 6 | "The Return" | Lena Dunham | Lena Dunham & Judd Apatow | May 20, 2012 (2012-05-20) | 0 |
| 7 | 7 | "Welcome to Bushwick a . The Crackcident" | Jody Lee Lipes | Lena Dunham & Jenni Konner | May 27, 2012 (2012-05-27) | 0 |
| 8 | 8 | "Weirdos Need Girlfriends Too" | Jody Lee Lipes | Lena Dunham & Dan Sterling | June 3, 2012 (2012-06-03) | 1 |
| 9 | 9 | "Leave Me Alone" | Richard Shepard | Lena Dunham & Bruce Eric Kaplan | June 10, 2012 (2012-06-10) | 0 |
| 10 | 10 | "She Did" | Lena Dunham | Lena Dunham | June 17, 2012 (2012-06-17) | 1 |
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | US viewers (millions) | |
| 11 | 1 | "It's About Time" | Lena Dunham | Lena Dunham & Jenni Konner | January 13, 2013 (2013-01-13) | 0 | |
| Several weeks after the events of the first season's finale, Hannah is taking care of a broken-legged and bedridden Adam while pursuing a casual relationship with another guy, a Republican college lawyer named Sandy. Marnie is "downsized" from her job at the art gallery, leaving her jobless, and her overbearing mother does not do much to cheer her | |||||||
| 12 | 2 | "I Get Ideas" | Lena Dunham | Jenni Konner | January 20, 2013 (2013-01-20) | 0 | |
| Elijah and George argue over the indiscretions that took place at the party, leading to the couple breaking up. After a bad job interview at another art gallery, Marnie begins to rethink her career options, and Shoshanna helps her acquire a new job as a club hostess. Jessa and Thomas-John are happily settled into married life, causing Hannah to que | |||||||
| 13 | 3 | "Bad Friend" | Jesse Peretz | Lena Dunham & Sarah Heyward | January 27, 2013 (2013-01-27) | 0 | |
| Hannah is hired to do freelance work at an e-Internet company for $200 an article. For her first project, she procures cocaine from Laird, the ex-junkie who lives on the ground floor in her building, and takes it with Elijah, after which they go to a nightclub on an irresponsible excursion. Marnie goes to have sex with Booth Jonathan, the conceptua | |||||||
| 14 | 4 | "It's a Shame About Ray" | Jesse Peretz | Lena Dunham | February 2, 2013 (2013-02-02) | 0 | |
| Hannah hosts a dinner party at her apartment to celebrate the publishing of her online article, but the party turns awry when Audrey insults Marnie and lets her know how she feels. Charlie later makes a move on Marnie in private, but she rejects him, stating that she is in a relationship with Booth. Shoshanna finds out that Ray is living with her b | |||||||
| 15 | 5 | "One Man's Trash" | Richard Shepard | Lena Dunham | February 10, 2013 (2013-02-10) | 0 | |
| Hannah thinks she has invented the word "sexit", only to be caught in the middle of an argument between Ray and a neighbor named Joshua, who accuses Ray of dumping the shop's garbage in his trash cans. Hannah visits Joshua's fancy brownstone row house to confess that she is responsible for dumping the shop's trash; she ends up having sex with him f | |||||||
| 16 | 6 | "Boys" | Claudia Weill | Murray Miller | February 17, 2013 (2013-02-17) | 0 | |
| After getting a deal for an e-book, Hannah has difficulty coming up with any new material when she learns that there is a one-month deadline. Marnie helps Booth Jonathan with an event after his assistant quits, but is upset to learn that he does not believe they are dating. Hannah attends the party in hopes of getting over her writer's block, but e | |||||||
| 17 | 7 | "Video Games" | Richard Shepard | Bruce Eric Kaplan | February 24, 2013 (2013-02-24) | 0 | |
| Hannah accompanies Jessa to visit her estranged father, Salvatore, who lives in a small town in upstate New York along with his new hippy wife Petula. During an evening excursion, Hannah has sex with Jessa's insecure 19-year-old step-brother, Frank. Jessa does not receive the warm welcome that she had hoped for from her father and tearfully confron | |||||||
| 18 | 8 | "It's Back" | Jesse Peretz | Lena Dunham & Steve Rubinshteyn & Deborah Schoeneman | March 3, 2013 (2013-03-03) | 0 | |
| Hannah hides her anxiety from her visiting parents, and is seen repeatedly doing things eight times as a symptom. Marnie is given the news that Charlie has succeeded with an app inspired by their breakup, which leads to her decision to follow her true passion for singing. Shoshanna sleeps with another man, the doorman of an apartment building that | |||||||
| 19 | 9 | "On All Fours" | Lena Dunham | Lena Dunham & Jenni Konner | March 10, 2013 (2013-03-10) | 0 | |
| Hannah's publisher, David, puts major pressure on her to speed up the deadline for her book, causing her relapsed OCD to spiral out of control. Hannah later sticks a Q-tip too far down her ear and has to go to the hospital. Marnie makes a small start for her passion to sing by performing a rendition of "Stronger" at an office party that Charlie thr | |||||||
| 20 | 10 | "Together" | Lena Dunham | Judd Apatow & Lena Dunham | March 17, 2013 (2013-03-17) | 0 | |
| Hannah's depression and OCD worsens as she faces a lawsuit by her publisher if she does not finish her book. Hannah leaves Jessa an angry message for abandoning her and impulsively asks Laird to cut her hair, during which Laird confronts her for her self-absorbed behavior. Ray tries to impress Shoshanna with a new managing position, but she breaks | |||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | US viewers (millions) | |
| 21 | 1 | "Females Only" | Lena Dunham | Lena Dunham | January 12, 2014 (2014-01-12) | 1 | |
| A few months after the events of the last season, Hannah has been able to combat her OCD with zoloft, while Adam moves into her apartment to look after her. Marnie is living with her divorced mother as she recovers from a second breakup with Charlie. Shoshanna establishes her priorities for studying to graduate from college after her breakup with R | |||||||
| 22 | 2 | "Truth or Dare" | Lena Dunham | Jenni Konner | January 12, 2014 (2014-01-12) | 0 | |
| Hannah, Adam and Shoshanna take a road trip to pick up Jessa from rehab while discussing their various conflicts in life to compare with Jessa, who is spending time with a fellow alcoholic named Jasper while waiting for her friends to pick her up. Hannah tells Shoshanna about her college experiences with Jessa, and recalls Jessa's struggles with ab | |||||||
| 23 | 3 | "She Said OK" | Jesse Peretz | Lena Dunham & Jenni Konner | January 19, 2014 (2014-01-19) | 0 | |
| Adam's mentally unstable sister Caroline visits her brother and Hannah after losing her job. Dismissing advice from Adam about his sister's mental state, Hannah invites Caroline to her 25th birthday party that Loreen and Tad have organized for her, and allows her to stay at the apartment. Meanwhile, Marnie deals with the recent upload of a humiliat | |||||||
| 24 | 4 | "Dead Inside" | Jesse Peretz | Judd Apatow & Lena Dunham | January 26, 2014 (2014-01-26) | 0 | |
| When David is unexpectedly found dead, Adam criticizes Hannah when she appears to be more concerned about the fate of her eBook. Unable to match Adam's emotional depth, Hannah confides in Caroline, who recounts a story about her late cousin Margaret before revealing that she made it up. Later, Hannah tries to portray her sympathy to Adam by relayin | |||||||
| 25 | 5 | "Only Child" | Tricia Brock | Murray Miller | February 1, 2014 (2014-02-01) | 0 | |
| At David's funeral, Hannah learns from his wife that her eBook deal is dead. Hannah lands an interview with a new publishing company who expresses interest in publishing her material, but she later learns that she cannot access her eBook from David's company for three years. Meanwhile, Jessa goes looking for work, while Marnie goes to Ray looking f | |||||||
| 26 | 6 | "Free Snacks" | Jamie Babbit | Paul Simms | February 9, 2014 (2014-02-09) | 0 | |
| Hannah begins a job writing advertorials at GQ. She bonds with her new colleagues, but begins to worry that working for the magazine will diminish her as a "real" writer, causing her to break down over the prospects. After their previous encounter, Marnie and Ray begin to spend more time together. Jessa begins working as a clerk at a children's bou | |||||||
| 27 | 7 | "Beach House" | Jesse Peretz | Jenni Konner & Lena Dunham & Judd Apatow | February 16, 2014 (2014-02-16) | 0 | |
| Marnie invites the girls to spend the weekend at her mother's friend's beach house on Long Island, but her perfectionism quickly becomes stifling when Hannah runs into Elijah and his gay friends and invites them over without consulting Marnie. Before the night is out, Marnie confronts Hannah for inviting Elijah and abruptly changing the weekend pla | |||||||
| 28 | 8 | "Incidentals" | Richard Shepard | Lena Dunham & Sarah Heyward | February 23, 2014 (2014-02-23) | 0 | |
| Adam's Broadway callback for Major Barbara is successful, but Hannah worries that he will put his acting career before their relationship after she interviews a plainspoken Patti LuPone, who advises Hannah that the dynamics of her and Adam's relationship will change. Meanwhile, Marnie reunites with an old friend, Soo Jin, who is planning to open he | |||||||
| 29 | 9 | "Flo" | Richard Shepard | Bruce Eric Kaplan | March 2, 2014 (2014-03-02) | 0 | |
| Hannah learns that her maternal grandmother Flo is dying of pneumonia in Westchester. While comforting her mother and her two aunts, she witnesses them squabble over petty matters. Hannah also unsuccessfully tries to bond with her cousin, academically-focussed med school student Rebecca. Adam arrives when Hannah and Rebecca get into a minor car acc | |||||||
| 30 | 10 | "Role-Play" | Jesse Peretz | Lena Dunham & Judd Apatow | March 9, 2014 (2014-03-09) | 1 | |
| Fearing that Adam's work in the play is making him too distant, Hannah tries to reinvigorate their quirky sex life through an elaborate role-playing scenario in which she lures him to a bar and poses as a disgruntled hedge fund manager's wife. Her plan falls apart when Adam announces that he's temporarily moving in with Ray in order to focus on his | |||||||
| 31 | 11 | "I Saw You" | Jesse Peretz | Lena Dunham & Paul Simms | March 16, 2014 (2014-03-16) | 0 | |
| After another enlightening interview with Patti LuPone, Hannah realizes that she is squandering her creative talents and decides to quit her job at GQ. Jessa, struggling to stay clean, decides to stop by Marnie and Soo Jin's gallery opening and quickly charms Bedelia, the artist being featured. In turn, Bedelia offers Jessa an archiving job, to Mar | |||||||
| 32 | 12 | "Two Plane Rides" | Lena Dunham | Lena Dunham | March 23, 2014 (2014-03-23) | 0 | |
| Hannah learns that Caroline has been living with Laird in the ground-floor apartment, and that they are expecting a baby together. Afterwards, Hannah receives an acceptance letter from the University of Iowa for their prestigious writers' workshop and is encouraged by her parents to jump at the opportunity. Bedelia asks Jessa to assist her in commi | |||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | US viewers (millions) | |
| 33 | 1 | "Iowa" | Lena Dunham | Lena Dunham & Judd Apatow | January 11, 2015 (2015-01-11) | 0 | |
| Hannah dines with her parents and Adam one last time before packing for Iowa. Shoshanna finally graduates from college after attending summer classes, but becomes annoyed by Loreen and Tad's constant bickering. Jessa is confronted by Bedelia's angry daughter, who reveals that she will be taking her mother to her home in Connecticut. Jessa later con | |||||||
| 34 | 2 | "Triggering" | Lena Dunham | Jenni Konner & Lena Dunham | January 18, 2015 (2015-01-18) | 0 | |
| Hannah arrives in Iowa and is initially enchanted by how much easier life outside of New York City seems to be. However, the charm of it all begins to wear off after one of Hannah's stories ends up provoking a strongly negative reaction from her classmates in the writer's workshop. Later, Elijah shows up to surprise Hannah, and they end up crashing | |||||||
| 35 | 3 | "Female Author" | Jesse Peretz | Sarah Heyward | January 25, 2015 (2015-01-25) | 0 | |
| While Elijah fits easily into Iowa's social scene, Hannah struggles with how to occupy her time with only one class per week. The two end up heading to a poet party where Hannah expresses her ambivalence about being a writer and ends up insulting each of her classmates out of frustration with them. Back in New York, Shoshanna has a successful job i | |||||||
| 36 | 4 | "Cubbies" | Jesse Peretz | Bruce Eric Kaplan | February 8, 2015 (2015-02-08) | 0 | |
| Shoshanna has another job interview that goes rather poorly and she ends up spending the next day shopping with Ray. Desi tells Marnie that he loves her, and reveals that he has told Clementine about their affair. After lashing out at her classmates at the poet party, Hannah writes a non-apology apology letter and puts it in all of their cubbies. L | |||||||
| 37 | 5 | "Sit-In" | Richard Shepard | Paul Simms & Max Brockman | February 15, 2015 (2015-02-15) | 0 | |
| Hannah confronts Adam about Mimi-Rose and, feeling lost, locks herself in his bedroom refusing to leave. Adam and Mimi-Rose stay at Laird's apartment during Hannah's sit-in, where she is visited by her friends; Shoshanna now hates Adam, Marnie is consumed with her new relationship with Desi and is mostly unreachable, Ray is concerned with his own t | |||||||
| 38 | 6 | "Close-Up" | Richard Shepard | Murray Miller | February 22, 2015 (2015-02-22) | 0 | |
| Shoshanna has another poor job interview at an instant soup manufacturer but accepts the invitation for a date with the interviewer, Scott. Meanwhile, Ray approaches the city council to bring an official complaint about the new traffic light on his street corner, which is causing noise caused by constant traffic congestion at all hours of the day a | |||||||
| 39 | 7 | "Ask Me My Name" | Tricia Brock | Murray Miller & Jason Kim | March 1, 2015 (2015-03-01) | 0 | |
| Hannah succeeds in her new job as a substitute English-reading teacher, and she goes out for a date with another teacher named Fran. After an enjoyable dinner, Hannah invites Fran to go to one of Mimi-Rose's art shows; Adam angrily asks Hannah why she is there, and she admits that she does not know. Fran leaves and Mimi-Rose introduces Hannah to he | |||||||
| 40 | 8 | "Tad & Loreen & Avi & Shanaz" | Jamie Babbit | Lena Dunham & Jenni Konner | March 8, 2015 (2015-03-08) | 0 | |
| Having befriended her student Cleo, Hannah spends time with her outside of school and convinces her to get a painful-looking frenulum piercing. Later, Hannah approaches Fran to apologize for ruining their date but he rebuffs her, implying that she's too dramatic for him. Shoshanna helps Ray amass local support for his upcoming campaign to run for a | |||||||
| 41 | 9 | "Daddy Issues" | Jesse Peretz | Paul Simms | March 15, 2015 (2015-03-15) | 0 | |
| Tad visits Hannah in New York and befriends Elijah, while Hannah struggles with the idea of his homosexuality as he is her father. She is also baffled to hear that her parents plan to stay together. Meanwhile, Jessa and Ace have sex for the first time, and Ace leads Jessa to Mimi-Rose's apartment, hoping to make Mimi-Rose jealous and angering Adam. | |||||||
| 42 | 10 | "Home Birth" | Lena Dunham | Jenni Konner & Lena Dunham & Judd Apatow | March 22, 2015 (2015-03-22) | 0 | |
| Caroline goes into labor and insists on having a home birth in her bathtub. Shoshanna is offered a job which would require her to relocate to Tokyo; Scott begs her not to go, saying he will "be in love with [her] soon", but Hermie tells Shoshanna that she should not pass up a lucrative job opportunity. After being pestered for his approval, Ray sna | |||||||