Girls
Goodbye Tour
TV Flash files “Goodbye Tour” as hour 61 of 62 in the TV Flash guide — Girls (2012–2017) on HBO, season 6, episode 9, aired 2017-04-09, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E09: listed hour 61 of 62 in the Girls guide, hour 9 of 10 in season 6. It aired 2017-04-09 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “What Will We Do This Time About Adam?” (S06E08). Next is “Latching” (S06E10).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After an important meeting, Hannah reaches out to friends for advice, but has trouble reaching Marnie.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Goodbye Tour sit in the Girls guide?
S06E09 is listed hour 61 of 62 — hour 9 of 10 in season 6, season 6 episode 9.
When did Girls S06E09 air?
Goodbye Tour aired 2017-04-09 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Why was it so controversial?
Debates over representation, privilege, tone, and Dunham's public persona surrounded the series from the jump. The arguments are part of the watch, not a sidebar.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Hannah Horvath and friends bumble through sex, work, and self-mythologizing in Brooklyn while privilege shares the bedroom. Lena Dunham's HBO series made deliberate discomfort authorship — Kirke, Williams, Mamet, Driver's early heat — and a decade of arguments about representation. Six seasons as Obama-era prestige lightning rod: messy women, unapologetic form, takes that still start fights.
Brooklyn loft light, bodies that refuse the press-tour polish, privilege sharing the bedroom. Lena Dunham's HBO series (April 15, 2012) made deliberate discomfort an authorship style — cringe, intimacy, and generational argument as weekly sport. Hannah Horvath and friends bumble through sex, work, and self-mythologizing. Jemima Kirke, Allison Williams, and Zosia Mamet complete a quartet people loved to fight about; Adam Driver's early breakout rode alongside, before *Star Wars* made him a different silhouette.…
Filed against
- Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath
Lena Dunham's Hannah Horvath made Girls deliberate discomfort as authorship — Brooklyn sex, work, and self-mythologizing, privilege sharing the bedroom, HBO half-hours that started a decade of arguments about who got to be the camera. TV…
- Allison Williams as Marnie Michaels
Allison Williams made Marnie Michaels the polished bruise of Girls — Brooklyn self-mythologizing, privilege sharing the bedroom, and HBO discomfort as authorship. Lena Dunham’s circle needed a friend who photographed as together and…
- Jemima Kirke as Jessa Johansson
Jemima Kirke’s Jessa Johansson drifted through Girls like privilege sharing the bedroom — Hannah Horvath’s Brooklyn self-mythologizing, Lena Dunham’s deliberate discomfort, a 2010s HBO argument about representation that never adjourned.…
- Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna Shapiro
Zosia Mamet’s Shoshanna Shapiro bumbled through Girls as privilege sharing the bedroom — Hannah Horvath and friends, sex, work, self-mythologizing in Brooklyn, Lena Dunham’s HBO series making deliberate discomfort authorship. Kirke,…
- Adam Driver as Adam Sackler
Adam Driver’s Adam Sackler brought early heat to Girls — Hannah Horvath’s Brooklyn self-mythologizing, privilege sharing the bedroom, Lena Dunham’s deliberate discomfort as authorship. Kirke, Williams, Mamet in the same weather, a decade…
- Andrew Rannells as Elijah Krantz
Andrew Rannells’s Elijah Krantz sliced Girls with precision comedy — Brooklyn self-mythologizing, HBO discomfort as authorship, a friend who would not let Hannah’s circle pretend the bit was cute. Privilege sharing the bedroom. TV Flash…