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Actress, writer, and former leftist "It girl" Lena Dunham is back — older, wiser, and ready to confront the biggest mistake she made with the hit HBO show that put her on the map: It simply wasn't woke enough.
Dunham vows this won't happen with her latest venture, the romantic comedy "Too Much." The Netflix series comes more than a decade after the 2012 debut of "Girls," which brought instant acclaim — and near-instant backlash — for star and creator Dunham.
'The funny thing is that she would probably still be under fire if her cast was more diverse.'
"Girls" wrapped up its sixth and final season in April 2017; since then, Dunham has starred in or written one-off television episodes while acting in about a dozen films.
But after all this time, the legacy of "Girls" has returned to haunt her.
White what you know
While conservatives dismissed "Girls" for its self-indulgent depiction of promiscuity as "sexual empowerment," its harshest critics were arguably liberals.
As soon as it aired, "Girls" was heckled from the far corners of leftism for its apparent lack of "diversity." Dunham admitted at the time that the nearly all-white skin tones in the show were simply a reflection of her life, since she is "half-Jew, half-WASP."
This time around, Dunham is determined to affirm her loyalty to progressive ideology before anyone can question it.
In 2012, Dunham did damage control by going on NPR's "Fresh Air" to say she was trying to avoid "tokenism in [her] casting" and opted for her chosen actresses because she assumed the "experience of an African American girl and a white girl" were "drastically different."
You see, it wasn't indifference that made her exclude black characters — but respect.
Pre-emptive apology
While that may have worked almost a decade ago, it's not going to fly in 2025 — and Dunham knows it. That's why she's doing a kind of pre-emptive apology tour before "Too Much" even premieres.
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In a recent interview with the Independent, Dunham suggested that the real culprit in the "Girls" diversity imbroglio was the entertainment industry as a whole.
"I think one of the profound issues around ''Girls' ... was that there was so little real estate for women in television that if you had a show called 'Girls,' which is such a monolithic name, it sounds like it's describing all the girls in all the places."
Dunham added that she understands how it would be "really disappointing to people" if they felt the show did not reflect "a multitude of experiences."
The 39-year-old went on to explain that she did "like the conversation" about how woke her show needs to be and said it would not be a problem for the new Netflix series.
I spy ... DEI
To that end, Dunham revealed she has pledged her allegiance to diversity in both the production and casting of "Too Much."
Yes, like "Girls," "Too Much" puts white, affluent characters front and center, with little to no room for people of color. But Dunham urges viewers to think of all the non-whites working behind the scenes to bring this vision to the screen.
"The thing I have really come to believe is that one of the most important things is not just diversity in front of the camera, but it's diversity behind the camera," she told the Independent. "As a producer, one of my goals is to bring a lot of different voices into a position where they can tell their story."
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Nice try
While impressive, Dunham's deft butt-covering may not be enough to satisfy a baying leftist mob always on the hunt for a new victim, warns culture writer Natasha Biase.
"The funny thing is that she would probably still be under fire if her cast was more diverse," Biase told Blaze News.
If anything, Dunham is trying too hard, continued Biase.
"I understand that we live in a diverse world, and film and television are supposed to be a reflection of that, but we are also often told to write what we know, and that’s exactly what Lena Dunham did."
Dunham bending the knee and "forcing herself" to write characters to which she can't relate would arguably be seen as "more controversial and irresponsible," Biase added, implying that Dunham is in a no-win situation.
"Our girl's about to learn that you can’t please the mob!"
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'Doctor Who' actress tells fans to 'get over' show's extreme woke content because it's 'pure and beautiful'
Actress Millie Gibson praised the woke narratives of the "Doctor Who" franchise and said fans need to simply ignore the overt LGBT tones and watch the show.
Gibson, whose real name is Amelia Eve Gibson, said in a recent interview that she was not concerned with how woke the show was, despite hordes of backlash and criticism over its extremely sexual and liberal storylines.
Last year, the show pushed rampant progressive politics right from the onset of its reboot, ushering in actor Ncuti Gatwa as their new "queer black" lead. Writer and executive producer Russell T. Davies also expressed that he had looked at other "nonbinary" actors for lead roles.
After The Standard's Martin Robinson framed the series as a critique of society that fights fascistic thinking, he asked Gibson about fan reactions to the show's strange direction that has included a drag queen and gay dance scenes.
"I'd just watch the show for what it is," Gibson said, excusing the content as nonpolitical. "I remember watching an episode where David Tennant goes back — I think it's with Martha — and they meet Shakespeare. And he's like, 'Oh yeah, Shakespeare's quite hot.' [This is] literally what Who does."
Gibson further excused the stories as "the way the world is" and said critics have been "making jabs" anywhere they could over the content.
"The show is so pure and beautiful and is literally about two best friends traveling the universe, so just watch it and get over it somewhat!" the 20-year-old requested.
The young actress then praised the aforementioned drag queen, "Jinkx Monsoon," and referred to the male entertainer as a woman.
"I'm her biggest fan. I don't think it's a problem at all."
Gibson's suggestion for fans to remain blissfully unaware of the show's politics strays from the methods her co-star has implemented to deal with the show's record-low ratings.
After critics took issue with dialogue from Gatwa's character like, "I spent a long, hot summer with Harry Houdini," the actor told the audience not to watch if they were not in support of "queer rights."
"Don't watch. Turn off the TV. Go and touch grass, please, for God's sake," he told Variety last year. "As the world darkens — and I do think the world is darkening around queer rights — there is a joy and a celebration, and there’s a community," Gatwa claimed.
Executive producer Davies has taken things a step further, however, and admitted in a 2023 interview that he believes it is important for children to learn about transgender themes at a young age.
"Visibility" is important, Davies said, adding that bigotry can be avoided "if you grow up seeing this stuff."
Davies also claimed that "homophobia and transphobia happens when it's something you've never seen before."
'People are having negative reactions to their beloved series forcing cultural and political narratives on them.'
English reporter Lewis Brackpool told Blaze News that there has long been evidence of government collaboration with U.K. television production companies. He said certain institutions have been "pushing forth certain narratives knowing millions will see them on-screen."
"Topics surrounding public health, climate policy, migration, and extremism have all been pushed," Brackpool added. "While the consumer has the right to turn the program off, people are having negative reactions to their beloved series forcing cultural and political narratives on them."
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Feminist icon who worked with Clinton and Gore jumps ship, endorses Trump: 'Biden-Harris suppressed my voice'
Feminist icon and best-selling author Naomi Wolf has thrown her support behind President Donald Trump, joining the likes of Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Teamsters boss Sean O'Brien, and the multitudes of other longtime Democrats who have grown disenchanted with a party now unrecognizable under its current management.
"Naomi Wolf here. NYS. Never in a million years did I think I'd vote for Donald Trump but the folks for whom I voted, censored me illegally via Big Tech, killed thousands of people via FDA lies and put the guy who tried to help me save American lives, in prison," Wolf wrote in a Sunday X post, days before President Joe Biden called all Trump supporters "garbage".
"At a certain point you can't support the fascists," added Wolf.
Wolf was long a darling of the left — a Democratic insider celebrated as a key proponent of third-wave feminism who advised the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, took up the cause of the populist Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in 2011, anddonned a "p***y hat" with other Trump critics in 2017.
In recent years, however, the liberal establishment began attacking Wolf as it became increasingly clear she was unwilling to toe the party line.
Leftists lashed out at Wolf when, for instance, she criticized the experimental mRNA vaccines foisted upon the American population, earning a ban on pre-Musk Twitter; when she underwent firearms training, which she indicated was "empowering"; when she discussed the Bible with Tucker Carlson around the time her former Democrat allies were working to censor him; and when she emphasized that abortion is always a "tragedy."
Following his release from prison Tuesday, Stephen K. Bannon spoke to Wolf on his "War Room" show about her Trump endorsement.
"Did you actually endorse President Trump?" asked Bannon.
'In person, he's very different from the caricature.'
"This is a hard thing for me to do, but yes I did. I'm saying it. It's public. Yes I did," said Wolf. "I posted it and I sent it to you in prison, my tweet or my X post, saying at a certain point, you have to stop supporting the fascists. The people I voted for silenced my voice. They killed thousands of people and they put the man who helped me try to save the lives of thousands of people in prison."
"At a certain point, you just have to stand up for what's right," added Wolf.
When pressed about what specifically prompted her to turn her back on the Democratic Party and to risk "Rachel Maddow's head blowing up," Wolf indicated that a good friend brought her to hear Trump speak to Orthodox Jews at Bedminster about anti-Semitism and about bringing an end to the conflict in the Middle East.
"I'm Jewish," said Wolf. "That was very, very moving to me."
Wolf noted further that "in person, he's very different from the caricature."
"All of my information about him was filtered through legacy media. 'He's a fascist.' 'He's a misogynist.' 'He's a racist.' I saw someone who was eloquent, articulate, thoughtful, very funny," continued the feminist icon. "Not every joke he makes I would have endorsed, but he was talking about — he was serious, he was a serious person talking seriously about peace in the Middle East about saving lives, saving innocent lives, Palestinian and Israeli, and how can that not be good?"
'You guys have become the unity party.'
Wolf emphasized that she was not hearing the same kind of seriousness from the Harris camp.
Trump's foreign policy may have nudged Wolf along, but she made clear that Democrats' attempts to censor her criticism of the COVID-19 vaccines effectively poisoned the well:
Biden-Harris suppressed my voice when I was warning women about serious danger to their fertility from the mRNA injection. In June of 2021, two attorneys general with lawsuits revealed that ... tweet was lifted out by the Biden-Harris regime at the highest levels. And instead of helping women protect their fertility, their babies, their pregnancies, their own health, they lifted it out to silence me, to smear me unlawfully — to put pressure on Big Tech companies like X and Facebook to suppress my First Amendment rights.
Wolf indicated that when fellow Democrats not only abandoned her but viciously attacked her, Bannon alternatively afforded her the platform to speak out — only to find himself in a prison cell thanks to the Biden-Harris Department of Justice.
'The Democrat Party has no home for people like us.'
"President Trump did something very smart. He aligned himself with a number of luminaries, people who are very thoughtful and serious across the political spectrum: RFK Jr., whom I respect so much; Tulsi Gabbard; [and] Elon Musk has joined," said Wolf. "You guys have become the unity party."
When endorsing Trump, Gabbard and Kennedy similarly suggested there has been a great realignment.
"To those of you here and those watching at home who are independent people like myself, who love our country and are committed to the Constitution and to freedom, the Democrat Party has no home for people like us," Gabbard told a crowd in North Carolina last week. "But we do have a home in the Republican Party."
Kennedy told Tucker Carlson in August that his assassinated father and assassinated uncle would not recognize the Democratic Party under Kamala Harris.
"I think there's been a bunch of realignments, of political realignments — about four or five throughout American history," Kennedy told Tucker Carlson in August. "I think we're going through one right now."
Kennedy noted that the Democratic Party is an anti-democratic force that has become synonymous with corporatism, military adventurism, and censorship.
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