‘Girls’ Goes Biblical on SNL
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Anne Cohen March 10, 2014
“Son of God,” “Noah,” and now “Girls” — 2014 is the year of the Bible movie.
Lena Dunham nailed her ‘Saturday Night Live’ hosting debut with a parody of her hit HBO series, proving that the travails and tribulations of the average twentish-year-old woman are as old as time itself. “Girls: The Bible Movie” trades in the coffeeshops of Greenpoint for the Garden of Eden, with Adam Driver and Dunham’s character Hannah Horvath as Adam and Eve.
And just like in “Girls,” everyone’s naked.
How do unlabeled relationships fare in a land of talking snakes and forbidden fruit? See for yourself:
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