Younger - Girl Code (Episode 5)

Oh gods! Where to start!


There is something genuinely mentally wrong with The Trout. She doesn’t talk or behave like a normal human person. I get that this is supposed to be funny but it just comes across as weird and like there is something properly wrong with this woman.


Did they publish Twilight?

Why only one copy?


In this instalment we have a story of sisterhood, they throw the term Girl Code around like it actually means something to people outside of this show.


 It starts with what I can only assume the writers thought was a funny humanising moment where Hilary Duff’s menstrual cup is stuck inside of her. Which, OK, I suppose that could happen but not easily and why hasn’t she been to a doctor? She reckons she’s had it in for like 14 hours. 

Hilary Duff leaves the meeting they are having with Hot New Guy who has broken The Trouts brain to deal with her situation but not before we discover that she doesn’t know what a diaphragm is. Is that something young people don’t know? They were definitely covered in my sex education at school. Sure they aren’t used commonly anymore but I imagine they still exist. 

Hilary Duff is in the toilets on the phone to Crazy Friend for help and this is the point we are treated to the most horrific story that I can only assume is supposed to be funny but it’s just not. Crazy Friend says she knows a girl who got a tampon stuck and had to go to the walk-in clinic to get it removed .Again how you get these things stuck is beyond me. She thought she had a dead rat in her apartment but it turned out the smell was her, they’d only removed half the tampon. Again how any of that happened is just, my mind stopped working at this point. All I could think is she should have gotten Toxic Shock Syndrome and died, why didn’t she die? And I don’t know about you but wondering why someone isn’t dead kind of ruins the joke for me. The clearly hilarious joke that was there about a woman’s vagina smelling like a dead rat, yeah, that one. I’ll wait while you finish laughing.

Hilary Duff hangs up on her unhelpful friend and asks Sutton Foster who has come in to offer assistance (what assistance? What were you going to do?) for help and somehow, someway that my brain cannot and will not compute they get the menstrual cup out together. Now they are BFFs, obvi. 

I had to stop watching at this point and process what had just happened. 


Meanwhile Debi Mazar is having trouble getting her art exhibited. 

This is probably the only reason I will keep going. She is so pretty.


Everybody goes to an art thing at which Debi Mazar ruins her life by having a fight with the gallery owner but Sutton Foster is off getting wasted with her new best vagina friend Hilary Duff so she isn’t there to support Debi Maza and their relationship is ruined.

All the young people think Debi Mazar is someone Sutton Foster found on Craigslist and that’s how she ended up living with her after she came back from India. None of the young people understand why Sutton Foster is upset that Debi Mazar is upset because they are just housemates. Sutton Foster convinces Hilary Duff that she and Debi Mazar are actually friends and then Hilary Duff finds Debi Mazar a new gallery space.
Everybody is friends in the end and only one person had to touch another's genitals so if that’s not a good sign I don’t know how to make friends. #BestVaginaFriends



Stay safe, hate watch with love and as always Do Feminisms!

 

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