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New Netflix Series Explores Teen Life Post-9/11

11/14/2025

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Lena Dunham and Heather Regnier, co-showrunners and executive producers, are developing a Netflix series based on Samantha Leach's The Elissas.
The series is set after September 11, 2001 and follows teens at Brooklyn's Remson Prep.
Production support comes from Working Title Television and Universal International Studios.
The 2023 book tells the story of three suburban girls at a troubled teens' boarding school.

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Story summary

Lena Dunham and Heather Regnier, co-showrunners and executive producers, are developing a Netflix series based on Samantha Leach's The Elissas.
The series is set after September 11, 2001 and follows teens at Brooklyn's Remson Prep.
Production support comes from Working Title Television and Universal International Studios.
The 2023 book tells the story of three suburban girls at a troubled teens' boarding school.