The return of “Girls” for a five-episode limited run won’t just be interesting because of how Hannah Horvath has or has not changed. It’ll be a litmus test for how we at home have, as well.
\n\nAfter all, Lena Dunham has at times struggled to distinguish herself from her most famous creation. At the height of HBO’s “Girls,” the op-ed-generating machine that, incidentally, was a very good TV show, journalists wrote about and addressed Dunham as if she literally were the narcissistic writer she portrayed onscreen. A general consensus seemed to have formed that Dunham could not possibly understand the ways in which Horvath was flawed and annoying — despite the fact that Dunham had written her. And, in the years after “Girls” wrapped up in 2017, Dunham struggled to step out of the show’s shadow with new work, in part due to medical and substance issues she documented in her recent memoir “Famesick.”
\n\nAs proven by “Famesick” and her 2025 Netflix series “Too Much” — a wistful, surprisingly mature story of attempting to move on from romantic disappointment — Dunham is in a different place now, and so, maybe, is her audience. Her book was received with warm nostalgia…
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