Girls is back: why it’s the perfect time for more of Lena Dunham’s millennial Sex and the City

HBO’s era-defining comedy is set for a new five-episode series. Its bleakness and warmth couldn’t be more welcome It’s a pop culture emergency. A millennial-quake that shook my social feed to its core. Girls , the HBO show that stole the zeitgeist in the early Instagram era and made Lena Dunham a generational star, is returning for a five-episode revival series.

The project was announced via a mock video call with some of the original cast: Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet and Andrew Rannells. They’re all returning for the reboot, which will pick up the story 10 years after the 2017 finale. Girls captured such a specific era when it premiered in 2012. Social media still felt new and exciting, Barack Obama was president and so-called “ woke 1 ” felt like it was going to be the new normal. The show’s characters navigated that terrifying twentysomething period when you’re searching for an identity, where it feels like…