6/26/2023 0 Comments Good girls soundtrack season 3![]() This isn't a list of the best songs or the best episodes, but rather a reflection on the instances where story and song were in perfect harmony, highlighting two standout soundtrack selections from each season. On the tenth anniversary of Girls and "Dancing On My Own" searing themselves in the cultural consciousness, we're taking a look back at the series' best closing music cues. Whether the songs were raucous and fun, or melancholic and contemplative, many of them lingered long after the credits because of how deftly they keyed into the emotional headspace of Girls' central characters. No matter how much secondhand embarrassment one might feel watching Hannah and her millennial pals fumble through life, the show had a knack for finding the right tune to end its episodes. ![]() That sequence aired ten years ago this week, establishing early on that Girls knew how to end its episodes on the perfect note (shout out to music supervisors Jonathan Leahy, Manish Raval, and Tom Wolfe, who worked closely with Dunham throughout the series' run). It's not until she skips ahead to the next song on shuffle, Robyn's "Dancing On My Own," that the music washes over Hannah, inspiring her to type up something more defiant, the episode's titular tweet: "All adventurous women do." Marnie (Allison Williams) comes home seconds later to find Hannah recklessly bopping around the room, joins her, and the two friends dance, carefree, as Robyn continues to play into the closing credit roll. She drafts up a few self-pitying thoughts, only to quickly delete-delete-delete. ![]() Welcome to Needle Drop, our ongoing series about crucial pop music moments on TV.įor all of the laughter, tears, and frustrated think-pieces it would inspire over its six seasons, one of the most indelible moments of HBO's Girls came early in its run, at the end of its third episode, "All Adventurous Women Do." A distraught Hannah Horvath (series star and creator Lena Dunham) listens to music as she hovers over her laptop, contemplating the perfect tweet to sum up her feelings about a recent HPV diagnosis and learning that her ex-boyfriend is gay.
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