It’s been nearly a decade since Girls wrapped its six-season run on HBO, and creator-star Lena Dunham is reflecting on the show’s development and legacy.
In a sprawling conversation with the New York Times‘ David Marchese, the Too Much creator discussed her forthcoming memoir Famesick, in which she reckons with chronic illness, sexual violence and her tumultuous relationship with celebrity. During the interview, she also touched on how Girls has been interpreted by audiences and reflected her life at the time.
While answering a question about how negative public perceptions may have led to perpetuating cycles of self-destruction, Dunham brought up how those narratives echoed themselves on television.
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“What was also interesting was those dynamics, which were in life scary at times, lonely — those would be recreated on television and people thought they were funny and fun and
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