If at any point in the decade since its final episode aired, you’ve found yourself revisiting Girls and wondering aloud or internally what Hannah, Marnie, Jessa, and Shosh might be up to as they reach and breach their 40s, rest assured, you’re not alone.
In fact, the show’s creator, Lena Dunham, appears to have been right there with you, and, as far as we can tell, that thought experiment serves as the very core of the series’ revival, which is now not just a hypothetical but a sure and imminent thing. According to Variety, HBO has greenlit a new season of the show, which will run as a five-episode limited series at some point next year. Dunham & Co. (Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, and Andrew Rannells) are all returning, as is executive producer Judd Apatow.
In an announcement video, Dunham asked if her former and future co-stars would block out next summer for the project, teasing when we might once again see film crews crowding sidewalks in Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Clinton Hill, and pedestrians clamoring to get a peak at the cast in action. Dunham also took to Substack with the announcement, writing a personal essay on how she arrived at the nerve and material to reanimate these characters. “40 is its own kind of weird,” Dunham wrote. “And I couldn’t stop thinking about where our Girls would be, and how they’d meet this milestone.”
Girls ran from 2012 to 2017, earned a pair of Emmys (along with 19 nominations), and was mostly shot in and around Kings County, either right in the middle of or (depending on who you ask and how long they’ve lived here) at the tail end of a massive transformation of both the borough and the city as a whole. The show had a non-inconsequential role in that shift, and it will be interesting to see how this iteration reckons with it, if at all.
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