Lena Dunham is officially bringing New York’s most dysfunctional millennial friend group back together for five brand new episodes of Girls. But why now, and what are the Girls characters doing with their lives in 2027?
“We always said we would only return to Girls if there was a specific story we were burning to tell,” Dunham said in an HBO press release on October 13. “I’ve missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn’t quite picture them in the present day. Then, right around my 40th birthday, they started talking to me in the shower.”
Luckily for legions of Girls fans, Dunham’s former co-stars Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, Jemima Kirke, and Andrew Rannells were all on board to start filming new episodes next summer. Unfortunately, that means we’ll probably have to wait at least a year for the revival to actually air.
While we wait, fans are already casting bets on what Hannah Horvath, Marnie Michaels, Shoshanna Shapiro, and Jessa Johansson have been up to since the series finale in 2017. “Shoshanna is going to be on the Real Housewives of New York promoting her zero waste athleisure line,” TikTok user @sydneyrekaps said in one popular video, going on to predict that Marnie is divorced with a child, Jessa is the stablest one of the group, and Hannah is still teaching in upstate New York but is married—hopefully to the a man played by Dunham’s real-life husband, Luis Felber.
Kaps’ prediction for Shoshanna seems to come straight from Dunham’s past interviews, though she seems to have missed what the series creator said about Hannah’s trajectory back in 2025. “I think that Shoshana has [an] athleisure empire,” Dunham told The Associated Press at the time. “Marnie is living in L.A. making music. She’s on her third husband. Jessa is on a boat in Croatia with her 80-year-old partner, and Hannah’s a lesbian.”
Around the same time, Dunham shared even more details about those storylines in an interview with Variety, adding the fates of Adam (Adam Driver), Ray (Alex Karpovsky), and Elijah (Andrew Rannells) into the mix. Here’s what Dunham and other cast members have said about where the main Girls characters has ended up, though their statements are obviously subject to change in the revival.
