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Season 2, Episode 7: "Video Games" After the solo Hannah episode two weeks back and last Sunday's focus on Ray and Adam, once again "Girls" is allowing its focus to flesh out a particular character, with Jessa (Jemima Kirke) getting the spotlight. The episode kicks off with her and Hannah (Lena Dunham) at the Manitou train station, about an hour outside of New York City, where they're awaiting Jessa's father and a weekend out in the country, in an episode that seems to ultimately serve as a goodbye to the character for a while. Though Jessa has made no secret of her colorful past -- a lot of it revealed during her infamous dinner with ex-husband Thomas-John's parents -- we've never seen her parents until now. And as we quickly learn, the relationship has been distant, with Jessa taking an accidental text from her father as an overly optimistic sign that »
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