\n\tA voice of a generation has returned. <\/p>\n
\n\tHBO<\/a> has greenlit a revival of \u201cGirls<\/a>,\u201d Lena Dunham<\/a>\u2018s beloved and controversial mid-aughts dramedy. The series will return for a limited, five-episode run with production beginning in 2027 \u2014 a decade after the Season 6 finale.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cGirls\u201d ran on HBO from 2012 to 2017. With Dunham as creator, showrunner and star, the original series followed a group of friends through the misery and dysfunction of their 20s in New York City. All four core cast members are returning for the revival: Dunham as Hannah Horvath, Allison Williams<\/a> as Marnie Michaels, Jemima Kirke as Jessa Johansson and Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna Shapiro. Additionally, Andrew Rannells reprises the role of Elijah Krantz.<\/p>\n \n\tJudd Apatow returns as executive producer on behalf of Apatow Productions alongside Dunham, Ilene S. Landress and Michael P. Cohen of Dunham\u2019s Good Thing Going banner. Williams, Kirke, Mamet and Rannells serve as co-executive producers.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe always said we would only return to \u2018Girls\u2019 if there was a specific story we were burning to tell,\u201d Dunham said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019ve missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn\u2019t quite picture them in the present day. Then, right around my fortieth birthday, they started talking to me in the shower. And, as you may remember, once this fivesome starts talking it\u2019s pretty hard to get them to stop\u2026 It\u2019s rare that you get the chance to return to something that changed your life with the gift of hindsight and a whole new level of gratitude and understanding. I love these girls (and boy), our friends at HBO and all the people who have continued to discover the show and remind us afresh why we do this, which is the joy of being together\u2026 and the chance to wear yellow mesh\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tDunham has expressed openness to the idea of reviving \u201cGirls\u201d multiple times over the years. Speaking to Variety in 2025<\/a>, she said, \u201cIf we had something to say that was really specific and it was a moment in their lives where we felt like revisiting it \u2014 like millennial women becoming mothers or stepping into menopause or going to live at old-age homes \u2014 I would always want to work with those people again.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMusing on each character\u2019s fate, Dunham continued, \u201cShoshanna was married to, then divorced from, the mayor of New York City, and she runs an athleisure startup that\u2019s zero-waste. Marnie \u2014 it\u2019s third marriage. She still sings, but I think Marnie really needs to take it to Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. Jessa is unvaccinated and lives on a boat in Croatia. Adam is a cult theater actor, and he\u2019s probably living in Berlin, and Ray is still on city council and running his coffee shop and doing better than anyone. Elijah is the fourth lead on a sitcom, making a good amount of money and still looking for love in all the wrong places.\u201d About her own character, Dunham added, \u201cShe teaches at Bard and loves raising her son. She probably has a girlfriend who\u2019s, like, a chef. And she\u2019s less obsessed with being famous. That is where I feel that she would land.\u201d Read her full essay about the revival here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tWhile it was a frequent topic of debate during its time on the air, \u201cGirls\u201d is often named one of the greatest television shows of all time, including by Variety in 2023<\/a>: \u201cThe pilot positioned a quartet of downwardly mobile, alliteratively named New York millennials as a counterpoint to \u2018Sex and the City,\u2019 trading aspiration for closely observed cringe. That Dunham, just 26 when the show premiered, was so consistently conflated with her character is at once a product of misogyny and a testament to her performance.\u201d The series, which earned 19 Emmy nominations and two wins during its run, has received significant renewed appreciation over the last few years.<\/p>\n \n\tTwo names from the original \u201cGirls\u201d team were noticeably absent from HBO\u2019s press release about the revival: Adam Driver, who starred as Hannah\u2019s on-and-off love interest Adam, and co-showrunner and executive producer Jenni Konner. Dunham wrote about negative experiences with both of them in her memoir \u201cFamesick,\u201d released in April of this year.<\/p>\n \n\tShe alleged that Driver was \u201cverbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing,\u201d<\/a> most notably recounting a story in which he threw a chair at a wall next to her because he was angry that she\u2019d forgotten her lines. Driver also took liberties on set that made Dunham feel discomfort and a loss of control: When they filmed their first sex scene, \u201ccareful blocking went out the window and he hurled me this way and that,\u201d she said. Driver also allegedly walked out the room when Dunham showed him the completed \u201cGirls\u201d pilot for the first time and ignored her calls for three weeks.<\/p>\n \n\tKonner was a close friend and mentor to Dunham in the early days of \u201cGirls,\u201d but their relationship soured as time passed<\/a>. For example, Dunham wrote about feeling pressured by Konner to negotiate equal salaries, despite that Dunham created the series and appeared onscreen. When Dunham began to struggle with various health issues and procedures that affected her work schedule, Konner became cold and distant, according to the book. Dunham also wrote that she has no memory of her involvement in the joint statement she and Konner released in 2017 in which they defended \u201cGirls\u201d writer Murray Miller against Aurora Perrineau\u2019s sexual assault allegations<\/a>. The statement was drafted and published the day after Dunham returned from the hospital after having a hysterectomy, she noted, and she issued an apology shortly after<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe original \u201cGirls\u201d cast also included Christopher Abbott, Alex Karpovsky, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Jake Lacy and more.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to have Lena turn her gaze from the tumult of one\u2019s twenties to the milestone of turning 40,\u201d reads a statement from Amy Gravitt, executive vice president and head of HBO & HBO Max comedy programming. \u201cTo say the world has changed since we last saw Hannah, Marnie, Shoshanna, Jessa and Elijah is a massive understatement, but we know fans \u2014 old and new \u2014 will be happy to see how they\u2019ve grown and relieved to see that they\u2019re still the \u2018Girls\u2019 we knew way back when.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSee a teaser video featuring Dunham and her castmates below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A voice of a generation has returned. 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