Lena Dunham's New Netflix Show Is Not 'Girls'
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Wendy is the fiancée of Jessica’s ex in Too Much. She is a cool-girl influencer who knits cropped sweaters, makes lip gloss, and has a bearded dragon named Chantilly. She is played by Emily Ratajkowski, a supermodel who is also known for her roles in Gone Girl and I Feel Pretty.
When it premiered on HBO in 2012, Lena Dunham’s Girls - about the trials and tribulations of a squad of 20-something privileged, often self-involved friends in New York City - was the talk of the town,
After years enduring hateful messages online while making "Girls," Lena Dunham was not as surprised as others by the rise of MAGA.
In an era where political unrest has become the norm, there is only one person I would blindly follow into war: Lena Dunham. Since I first became obsessed with Girls, the HBO show that made Dunham the voice of my generation (annoying millennials) in 2012,
Watts has pivoted to TV in recent years, leading Netflix's hit series The Watcher (2022) and playing magazine editor Babe Paley in Ryan Murphy's Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (2024), the latter of which landed her Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Next up is another Murphy series, All's Fair.
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When Lena Dunham reached precocious fame with her series Girls (she wrote and sold the show to HBO aged just 23), she was primed to become the next big thing for a generation of millennials. And yet nothing she’s created or starred in since the show ended in 2017 — including the 2022 comedies Catherine Called Birdy and Sharp Stick and a small role in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time .