Lena Dunham's Girls Returns for Five-Episode HBO Revival — SkimNews
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- HBO's Girls is returning for a five-episode revival series, announced via a mock video call with returning cast members Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, and Andrew Rannells.
- The revival picks up 10 years after the 2017 finale — a shorter gap than the two-decade jumps of recent 2000s reboots that the article cites as cautionary examples.
- Lena Dunham is in what the article calls a "Dunham-issance" following the release of her NYT bestselling memoir Famesick and a string of successful TV projects since the original wrapped.
- The article positions the revival against And Just Like That, which it characterizes as a "case study in how not to do a reboot," with characters like Miranda Hobbes "changed beyond recognition" across three seasons.
- Millennials' economic precarity — still the first generation worse off than their parents, per the article — gives the revival the same themes the original established, without forcing characters to have "evolved" beyond their 20s struggles.
Why it matters: The 10-year gap is shorter than the 20-year jumps that left And Just Like That's characters 'changed beyond recognition.' With Dunham in what the article calls a 'Dunham-issance' after her NYT bestseller Famesick, and millennials still facing the housing and job insecurity the original depicted, the revival arrives with both creator momentum and a generation whose core struggles haven't shifted.
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