Nicholas DeLorenzo

Girls deserves a lot of credit for making the necessary adjustments in Season 3 to allow the show to consistently reach its full potential week after week for the first time since the first season.

After an episode as great as last week’s “Beach House,” it’s easy to expect Girls to take a step backwards, and by simple unfair comparison, “Incidentals” doesn’t live up to the expectations brought on by its predecessor

With the girls growing more and more distant from one another over the past two years, it’s no surprise that it has been such a struggle to get them in the same room together, but when they finally do in “Beach House,” the results are as eventful as you’d hope.

Quality television will always require some level of patience, because sometimes what’s so frustrating about an episode like “Only Child” makes an episode like “Free Snacks” all the more rewarding.

The girls on Girls are some of the worst people on TV, something that you, dear reader, obviously don’t need me to spell out for you.

Like it or not, Girls will always be a show about Hannah’s anti-heroism, her delusions and self-pity most notably, and the show has made the interesting.

Adam is a man of his word, and in a Girls universe where characters avoid honesty at all costs, that distinction carries plenty of weight.

Girls has always been such a divisive show, which is the main reason it’s been so great. Even after nearly two dozen episodes, you never really know what kind of show its going to be on any given week, and the unpredictability of it has elicited nearly every imaginable response.

Maron ends its first season — a surprisingly strong one that gained plenty of momentum in the back-half — by airing back-to-back new episodes to close it out.

The growth Maron has shown, almost literally getting better with each episode, has allowed me to curb my criticisms of the show’s POV and keep a more open mind.

Maron has struggled in its 1st season by falling into sitcoms rhythms that were far too familiar for such an opinionated & strange man.

Maron’s “Sponsor” is able to deliver exciting plot elements without losing the show’s brand of neurotic humor.

The show’s 5th episode, “A Real Woman,” may not tread any new sitcom ground, but it’s Maron’s funniest episode to date.

If you hadn’t yet picked up on the amount of resentment Marc has stored up inside him, then you haven’t been watching Maron very closely.

Did you miss the latest episode of Maron on IFC? Check out our recap of “Marc’s Dad” right here.

For anyone who tuned into last week’s pilot having never been exposed to Marc Maron’s typical brand of comedy, a lot of it might have appeared jarring (heck, even as a fan of his I found a lot of it to be forced).