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It’s official: Lena Dunham’s millennial magnum opus Girls is coming back, and it’s in large part thanks to Gen Z giving the show its long overdue redemption arc. Using their native tongue: the internet, Gen Z proselytized the show through memes, clips, and podcasts, and now, as if by collective manifestation, it’s being rebooted for five episodes, which HBO announced Wednesday. When Girls first aired in 2012, it was cataclysmic. Rave reviews were usurped by the relentless onslaught of sexism and misogyny, which commented on Dunham’s body, the kind of sex depicted onscreen, and the nepo baby allegations against the show’s stars—as well as the series’ lack of diversity. There was endless backlash and backlash to the backlash; it became everyone’s favorite show to both fairly criticize and willfully misunderstand, and creator Dunham was the one stuck grasping onto the lightning rod of so much ire, as she began to stand for everything wrong with millennial white women. But then something happened. A decade after it aired, everyone started rewatching Girls.

And so is the Alive 2007 pyramidOctober 22, 2026Courtesy of LEGO and Daft PunkWe’re probably no closer to a Daft Punk reunion five years after the duo broke up—this despite completely unfounded rumors plus a run of legacy-building post-breakup projects—but now you can at least pretend Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo are playing at your house thanks to Lego’s latest collection. The Daft Punk set can be traced back to Covid lockdown, when a father and son from Luxembourg suggested the company recreate the duo’s 2007 Alive Tour pyramid stage. A rendering of that model can be found below, along with the DJ duo's official Lego minifigures. Bangalter and Homem-Christo now join the Beatles and the Spice Girls in the annals of musicians who’ve become plastic bricks. “The pyramid stage is one of the most recognisable expressions of Daft Punk’s visual world, so it feels fitting that this fan-created design will be centre stage of this partnership,” longtime Daft Punk creative director Cédric Hervet said in a statement.

Judi Dench has said she can no longer perform on stage or in films because of her deteriorating eyesight, more than a decade after revealing she had been diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration. “I can’t be on stage. I can’t do a play any more. I can’t do a film any more. I can’t read any more,” the 91-year-old actor told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday. Dench, one of Britain’s most celebrated actors, was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in 2012. The condition causes progressive sight loss and has increasingly affected her ability to work, as well as her independence in everyday life. She described how she can no longer read or recognise faces. “I go up to lots of the wrong people and give them an almost hug and say: ‘Oh sorry, didn’t realise’,” she said. She also told the presenter Emma Barnett: “I can’t see your face at all.”Dench’s comments mark a stark development in a gradual deterioration that has affected her ability to work for years. In 2014, she said her failing eyesight made reading difficult, but insisted she would continue working for as long as she could.