Catching up with HBO’s ‘Girls’

Missed the first season of Lena Dunham’s gritty hit comedy? Here’s a look at where the 20-somethings stand at the start of Season 2, which airs Sunday night.

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Hannah (writer/producer Lena Dunham) bounces from unpaid internship to office job — which she quits after making a cringe-worthy advance on her boss — to serving coffee, while accumulating “life experiences” for her desired career as a writer/memoirist. Her lackadaisical attitude toward rent spurs a fight with best friend and roommate Marnie, who moves out and may be replaced by Hannah’s gay ex-boyfriend. Season 1 concludes with Hannah eating discarded cake while sitting wallet-less in the sand in Coney Island, having fallen asleep on the subway after a fight with boyfriend Adam.

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Marnie, played by Allison Williams, sheds a bit of her tight-laced, unofficial mother role, ending her long-term relationship with boyfriend Charlie, entering into a botched three-way with friend Jessa and awkward Wall Street trader Thomas-John, and in a final scene, having a cake-fight make-out session with the chubby officiant for Jessa and Thomas’s surprise wedding.

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Jessa (Jemima Kirke) calls the girls to an unannounced event in the final episode, which turns out to be her nuptial ceremony with Thomas, whom she met a few weeks earlier. Jessa’s impromptu decision may have been influenced by the unsolicited advice of Katherine, the mom for whom Jessa had worked as a nanny before nearly having an affair with her husband, Jeff.

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Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) is still recovering from an accidental encounter with crack at a Bushwick warehouse party. Jessa assigns Ray, Charlie’s friend, to babysit her, which leads to losing her virginity with the coffee-shop manager. Shoshanna also plays host to Marnie in the finale, who moves in after her fight with Hannah.

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Adam (Adam Driver), is hit by a car in the Season 1 finale after fighting with Hannah over who is lovable and why Hannah could string him along about moving in, only to change her mind after finding another roommate. Adam shoos Hannah out of the ambulance, which results in her subway sleeping incident.

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Ray (Alex Karpovsky, seen here with Lena Dunham) finds himself oddly attracted to the naive and slightly neurotic Shoshanna, which seems to be the only relationship anyone is actually rooting for.

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