7 Reasons Why Girls Season 3 Is Already Better Than Season 2

6. Marnie Is All Messed-Up Again

As stated before, when we met Marnie she was organised and in charge. She was the one who looked at Hannah with pity because Hannah's life was a mess. She was the one who had a boyfriend, a well-paying job, an all round perfect life. When she broke up with Charlie, she entered a stage of being messed-up, she became the broken-up person who eats too much ice cream and stalks their ex on Facebook. In season two, however, she got back together with Charlie causing her to be happy and perfect again. Now, in season three, she's single (meaning she's messed-up) plus she's lost and broken, and that's fun to watch. The messed-up Marnie we saw in the previous seasons, was eating crisps in bed, spending the weekends in her PJs, going to bars and attempting three-ways which miserably failed. To see a character who is so perfect go deeper and deeper into oblivion makes for good television. It's reminiscent of when we saw Bree Van De Kamp from Desperate Housewives have her breakdown in season two and eight. Marnie can stay as messed-up as she wants because we like seeing the bed-ridden, messy-haired, trying-to-hold-it-together Marnie who's broken. Episode three saw her screaming down the phone at a Youtube worker where she said she wouldn't get in contact with her ex-boyfriend because he broke her heart. The first episode saw her trying to eat a taco - similar to her crisp eating extravaganza - and spit it out because she hated it. Would perfect Marnie do that? No. Messed-up Marnie? Yes. Because she's much more interesting.
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Thomas Stewart is a graduate from the University of Glamorgan and currently a student on the MA in Writing course at the University of Warwick. He is a Freelance Writer for Mens Fashion Magazine, Make and Believe, Smashpipe and more. As well as writing, he loves horror films, folk music, Raymond Carver, patterned jumpers, Richard Yates, curry, Scarlett Thomas, editing, chick-flicks, watches and biscuits.