Alyssa Rosenberg Author Archive

overnights Mar. 24, 2014

Girls Season 3 Finale Recap: One of Those Artist Couples“Can’t one thing ever be easy with you?”

overnights Mar. 17, 2014

Girls Recap: It Just Hurts to Be a ShellShosh’s superpower may be to arrive at the most cutting truth by the ditziest route possible.

overnights Mar. 10, 2014

Girls Recap: Play With MeA blonde wig and some naughty underthings can’t solve every problem.

Mar. 3, 2014

Girls Recap: Cathy Cartoons“It’s not easy being married to an odd man.”

overnights Feb. 23, 2014

Girls Recap: The Broadway SceneThis week, we see even more of the person Hannah is when she has a job.

overnights Feb. 17, 2014

Girls Recap: The Time of My LifeHannah and Co. head to a beach house on Long Island. And it’s totally chill and no one fights or anything.

overnights Feb. 9, 2014

Girls Recap: AdvertorialFor the first time this season, Girls felt like it was on Hannah’s side.

back and forth Feb. 3, 2014

Is Hannah Horvath TV’s Most Selfish Character?And do Dunham and her fellow Girls producers care if we hate her?

overnights Feb. 3, 2014

Girls Recap: The True Struggles of HumanityHannah really needs to start paying attention to what’s going on around her.

overnights Jan. 27, 2014

Girls Recap: Fat-Free Muffin of Sociopathic Detachment“Are you going to call me self-involved too?

overnights Jan. 19, 2014

Girls Recap: Enjoy Your Evening, Enjoy Your Life“It’s really amazing that the four of you have accomplished so little in the four years since college.”

overnights Jan. 13, 2014

Girls Season Three Premiere Recap: Neanderthal Sex Addict Sociopath Girls has always been about unreliable narrators, but in the third season, it’s counting us among them.

overnights Dec. 15, 2013

Homeland Season Three Finale Recap: A Kind of PeaceWe have absolutely no idea where Homeland could go from here. And that’s a great place for this show to be.

overnights Dec. 9, 2013

Homeland Recap: The Most Wanted Man in the WorldIt looked like Homeland was back to being the show our recapper loved again. And then it chickened out.

overnights Dec. 2, 2013

Homeland Recap: Relax the GoatAt least the show has the decency to acknowledge that Saul’s second “play” is a long shot.

overnights Nov. 25, 2013

Homeland Recap: Never Have to See You AgainSaul has an absolutely crazy plan.

overnights Nov. 18, 2013

Homeland Recap: Knowing the GameWe’re coming to terms with the fact that Homeland is a show in which the characters don’t make the same decisions that actual humans would.

overnights Nov. 11, 2013

Homeland Recap: The Eyes of GodCunning passages. Impudent crimes.

what to do Nov. 1, 2013

Ethical Pop-Culture Consumption’s Slippery SlopeIt gets more complicated than punishing the Ender’s Game movie for Orson Scott Card’s writing.

overnights Oct. 27, 2013

Homeland Recap: Duck HuntingSenator Lockhart is just what this show needs.

deep dives Oct. 21, 2013

Why Did Homeland’s Twist Feel Like a Cheat?This week’s episode was something new for the show.

overnights Oct. 21, 2013

Homeland Recap: Full-Blown Contagion“Game On” was an episode that left us torn between pleasure at the show’s nervy plotting, and rage-y frustration.

overnights Oct. 13, 2013