'Girls' Begins to Wrap Things Up

The Girls are moving on.

Hannah ends the half-hour ready to embark on a new chapter of her life in her new home upstate, after leaving the city to take a job as a professor. The move marks a return to academia and teaching for Hannah after her time at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and working as a high-school teacher at the end of season four and for much of season five.

"Kind of for the same reason that it's exciting to see Hannah be a parent, the idea of her taking some of the knowledge that she's accrued and passing it on, that's something that she's good at and she's been through a lot over the past five years in New York and she's experienced a lot," Dunham tells The Hollywood Reporter of the career development. "She can get anybody to talk to her on any subway. Helping people get their stories out of themselves is something she's able to do. Besides the convenience of it, teaching felt like somewhere where she could be useful."

But in some ways, as those who've struggled to carve out a life in New York City know, and Elijah (Andrew Rannells) expressed to Hannah early in the episode, leaving is a bit of a betrayal.

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