Creator and star of US comedy, widely praised for warts-and-all portrayal of women, says her forthcoming 30th birthday feels like perfect time to end show
“I don’t want to freak you out,” Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah Horvath, told her parents in the first episode of Girls to hit TV screens in 2012, “but I think that I may be the voice of my generation – or at least a voice of a generation.”
Dunham, with her comedy-drama about the life, loves and frequent job losses of four hapless twentysomethings in Brooklyn, went on to create a hit that for many said as much about the zeitgeist as a predecessor it was often compared to – Sex and the City. But Dunham’s generation is moving on. On Thursday, HBO announced that the show will finish in 2017 after its sixth season.
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