Women was considered one of the definitive TV exhibits of the 2010s. Individuals are nonetheless rewatching it to this very day, and when the Lena Dunham-created TV present initially was on the air (from 2012 to 2017), it generated a lot of debate.
One specific criticism the present confronted early on was that its 4 leads — Lena, Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, and Jemima Kirke — had been all white.
Lena has a brand new present — the Meg Stalter-starring Too A lot — premiering on Netflix on July 10, and in a latest interview with the Impartial, she mirrored on the range criticisms that Women confronted when it was initially on the air.
“I believe one of many profound points round Women,” she mentioned, “was that there was so little actual property for ladies in tv [then] that if you happen to had a present referred to as Women, which is such a monolithic identify, it sounds prefer it’s describing all the women in all of the locations.”
“And so if it is not reflecting a mess of experiences, I perceive how that might be actually disappointing to individuals.”
Within the interview, Lena additionally mentioned that she “preferred the dialog” round Women, and that it in the end knowledgeable her strategy to range on tasks like Too A lot.
“The factor I’ve actually come to imagine is that one of the crucial essential issues is not only range in entrance of the digicam, nevertheless it’s range behind the digicam,” she mentioned. “As a producer, considered one of my targets is to carry a number of totally different voices right into a place the place they’ll inform their story.”
You possibly can learn the whole interview right here.