Ever wonder what Hannah, Marnie, Jessa and Shosh have been doing since Girls ended nearly a decade ago?
Fans will finally get an answer when Lena Dunham’s Emmy-winning dramedy returns to HBO for a five-episode limited run.
HBO announced the news on October 13 with a video featuring Dunham and the original cast. She joined Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet on a Zoom call to discuss another season of Girls.
“Can we still call it ‘Girls?’ ‘Cause we’re like old as f@$#,” Dunham asks before the call drops.
What do we know so far?
Production for Season 7 will begin next summer, with Dunham reprising her role as the struggling writer Hannah Horvath, alongside Allison Williams as Marnie Michaels, Jemima Kirke as Jessa Johansson, and Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna Shapiro.
Also joining the revival is Andrew Rannells, who will once again portray Hannah’s ex-boyfriend-turned-gay-best-friend Elijah Krantz.
It is not immediately known whether Adam Driver (Adam Sackler) will return to the show in the wake of allegations made by Dunham in her 2026 memoir “Famesick” that the actor was “verbally aggressive” on set.
What is ‘Girls’ about?
Girls follows four women in their 20s as they navigate self-discovery and life’s ups and downs in New York City.
The show ran for six seasons from 2012-17 to critical acclaim, earning 19 Emmy nominations and winning two awards.
It is known for its iconic scenes, including one in the pilot episode where an apparently intoxicated Hannah tells her parents that she could be “the voice of a generation,” or at least “a voice of a generation.”
‘A gift’
On Substack, Dunham said reviving Girls is “a gift”, and thanked her fans for inspiring her to do it.
“There was a long period in which it was impossible to imagine reconvening ‘Girls’ – it felt so recent and so big, like a glacier we were sailing away from,” she wrote in a newsletter dated October 14.
“Then, I turned 40. I thought about the distance I felt – having not yet had a child, having come ‘later’ to marriage, having gone very fast in certain ways and still having some challenges with the washing machine – from the woman I thought I’d be and so many women I know.
“Maybe there was once a part of me that wanted to outrun Hannah and her ladies. Seeing the love you’ve so generously shared for it helped to turn me around.”
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