A24’s ‘It Gets Worse’ Updates ‘Girls’ for British Gen Z: TV Review

A24’s ‘It Gets Worse’ Updates ‘Girls’ for British Gen Z: TV Review hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 6, 2026 6:15am PT A24’s ‘It Gets Worse’ Updates ‘Girls’ for British Gen Z: TV Review By Alison Herman Plus Icon Alison Herman TV Critic aherman2006 Latest Netflix Steampunk Western ‘Bass x Machina’ Is a Crackling Mix of Fantasy and Reality: TV Review 3 days ago Haley Stevens’ Unsettling CNN Interview Proves Why She’s Unfit for Public Office 4 days ago After the Cast and Creator’s Comments, ‘Nobody Wants This’ Can No Longer Ignore Israel and Gaza 1 week ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments The series “ It Gets Worse ” is a star vehicle for its 20-something writer-creator that skewers a dysfunctional friend group flailing about in a big city. Though there are important distinctions — the protagonist is a gay man, not all the main characters are white and the action unfolds in London rather than the Big Apple — the influence of “Girls” is unmistakable.

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But by the time the parallels really sink in, “It Gets Worse” has beaten you to the punch. Yes, an underemployed striver being told their internship won’t result in the professional boost they were hoping for is a story beat straight out of Lena Dunham’s magnum opus.

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This time, however, the boss breaking the bad news is played by Dunham herself. Leo Reich , the lead and creative voice of “It Gets Worse,” collaborated with Dunham on her Netflix show “Too Much,” in which he played one of the heroine’s chaotic co-workers.

It’s possible Dunham saw a kindred spirit in the comedian, another precocious child of urban creatives (Reich’s father is a film producer) with a keen eye for his peers’ self-delusion. If Hannah Horvath was a voice of a generation, a joke that’s slowly acquired a ring of earnestness as “Girls” has passed the test of time, then Dunham’s cameo marks a passing of the baton from millennials to Gen Z.

Originally produced by the über-hip studio A24 for the U.K.’s Channel 4, where the show premiered last month and will air on Paramount+ in the U.S., “It Gets Worse” clocks in at a tight and typically British half-dozen episodes. As such, the plot zeroes in on a suitably narrow slice of time: the window between college friends turned roommates Ethan (Reich), Abi (Emily Fairn) and Sam (Olive Gray) having to move out of one apartment — sorry, flat — and signing a lease on another.

Whether they’ll actually relocate is an open question given the trio’s poor collective decision-making. Selfish, hapless Ethan gets too distracted by internet scrolling to fix a hole in the wall and loses their security deposit, much to Sam’s ire.

Abi actually wants to move in with her boyfriend, Tom (Sean Delaney), but can’t bring herself to tell the others. Sam, an aspiring writer, supplements her Substack essays with standardized test tutoring that still may not be enough to cover London rent.

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