The trailer and poster for HBO's hit series "Girls" season three released this past week with a little over a month before the double-episode debut on Jan, 12 gave a little insight on what may lie ahead in the more adult-like third season.
The minute and a half trailer is filled with already usable quotes, and some hints and clues as to what's happening to who. Most obvious is the absence of Christopher Abbott who plays Charlie, Marnie's on-and-off again boyfriend who's been around since the pilot episode.
A source who works on the hit show told E! News Abbott would no longer be a part of season three after he and director and writer Lena Dunham agreed to part ways due to creative differences.
During a "Girls" red carpet event in January 2013, Abbott told E! News "Lena kind of set a tone to not change [the show] at all," adding that the cast "went about it the same way we did the first season," in regards to changes in the characters for season two.
The creative difference must have been huge because in the season two finale, Marnie, played by Allison Williams, and Charlie seem ready to get married when Marnie tells him she wants to have his "little brown babies" and Charlie responds with "that's all I ever wanted to hear."
Abbott however is not in the season three poster, with Ray and Adam, Shoshana and Hannah's boyfriends, and is not present in the trailer, either.
Hannah and Adam seem to be back and stronger than ever. The trailer shows them, along with the girls on a trip somewhere in the woods, as well as cozied up in one of their apartments. Maybe they're living together now? The same can't be verified for Shoshanna and ex-boyfriend Ray, who she brutally broke up with due to the fact he literally hates everything, but her.
Shoshanna is shown acting promiscuous and sleeping around in the season three trailer with no signs in re-kindling her "monkey-in a cage who needs help" love for Ray.
The trailer, and the poster, are seemingly more adult like than previous seasons where Hannah experiments with cocaine for a story, or when Jessa gets married for a few weeks. Shoshanna, played by Zosia Momet, seems to be the only character dabbling in the act of being bad when scenes show her either to drunk or tired to study, as she admits her "life is a mess."
The poster includes: Ray, Adam, Marnie, Shoshanna, Jessa, and Hannah all in formal party arrite (except for Jessa who threw on raggedy army boots, of course) with all but Marnie and Shosh laughing it up. Actually, nobody but the two seem to want to be there.
Hannah still seems to be struggling with her writing career, and maybe mental state, as she shown sitting in an interview with a would-be employer and telling her: "I feel like I'm a person who can't keep my mouth shut." She's later shown crying in a cubicle, maybe indicating no jobs in this season go well for her either.
"Girls" returns on Jan. 12.
