The dog days are over! Millennials’ favorite show about self-obsessed hipsters who think the world revolves around them is finally coming to an end.
News that Girls had officially been canceled broke Wednesday. The Telegraph reported that Lena Dunham’s character Hannah — billed as “the voice of a generation” — would have her final episode after season six in 2017.
“Once we figure out what season five is, we’ll know whether it’s another year,” said co-creator Jenni Konner to The Hollywood Reporter last year. “Maybe it’s just one more year, maybe we wrap it up in six. It all depends. But also we’re not in the business of running it into the ground. We would like to end in a graceful place.”
Some fans of the show agree that it’s time for Girls to come to an end. The show no longer represents the desperation and endless string of failures most millennials commonly face. More millennials are post-college age than pre-college age (post-college meaning they were born after 1994).
“For them, the end of Girls will be the end of an era where they’re constantly labelled ‘generation rent’, ‘generation boomerang’ and ‘generation Instagram,'” wrote Radhika Sanghani in The Telegraph. “As the characters are forced to leave behind their apartment-hopping, career-changing, drug-taking and indulgent self-pity, so too will viewers.”
