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

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/a24s-it-gets-worse-updates-girls-for-british-gen-z-tv-review/
- Published: 2026-11-06T14:15:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T15:57:25+00:00
- Original publisher: Variety
- Original article: https://variety.com/2026/tv/reviews/it-gets-worse-review-girls-1236940887/
- Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment, Software, Technology, TV, UK, World

## Key points

- A24’s six-part London comedy follows three friends facing a housing move.
- Lena Dunham’s cameo nods to the show’s *Girls* influence.
- Zadie Smith narrates a bleakly comic portrait of Gen Z unease.

## Summary

A24’s *It Gets Worse* follows three college friends in London as their housing plans unravel, using their mishaps to satirise the anxieties and self-deceptions of young adults. Its resemblance to *Girls* is deliberate: Lena Dunham appears as a boss delivering career disappointment, a moment the review frames as a generational handover from millennials to Gen Z.

Leo Reich created and stars as Ethan, alongside Emily Fairn as Abi and Olive Gray as Sam. The six-episode series was made for Channel 4, premiered in the UK last month and is due to air on Paramount+ in the US. Zadie Smith narrates, while Andrew Scott also guest stars; the story takes in London rent pressures, precarious work and relationships, blending its bleak outlook with gallows humour.

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