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Any HBO show featuring a confident yet infuriating female lead is guaranteed to pique interest. Rachel Sennott, meet HBO. HBO, meet your match. Below, the latest updates on the “It” pilot of the season.
March 19, 2024: Girls and Sex and the City walked so Rachel Sennott could run. According to Deadline, HBO has ordered a comedy pilot from the Bottoms star, which she will write, star in, and executive-produce. It’s about how “a codependent friend group reunites, navigating how the time apart, ambition and new relationships have changed them.” It’s basically asking to have a codependent relationship with this show while we avoid our own personal problems. That is the societal role of an HBO show; she’s just following the steps others have paved for her. Sennott is recruiting Barry writers Emma Barrie and Aida Rodgers to help produce. Now, when will they announce Ayo Edebiri’s involvement?
July 18, 2024: Well, who else is going to be there? Leighton Meester of Gossip (“It”) Girl fame and Quenlin Blackwell of digital “It”-girl fame are both in the cast, per Variety. They join previously revealed cast members Odessa A’zion, Jordan Firstman, Miles Robbins, and True Whitaker. We can only hope that, in this project, nobody dies and forces Firstman to leave his orgies to look for his friend.
November 10, 2024: HBO’s big “Coming to Max” supertrailer makes it official — the title for Rachel Sennott’s untitled project is Untitled Rachel Sennott Project. And as far as a first look, it mostly shows the big blue Scientology building getting a first look at her tits. Untitled Rachel Sennott Project will debut on HBO in 2025.
May 1, 2025: A new bombshell has entered the untitled Rachel Sennott project. Deadline is reporting that Josh Hutcherson is replacing Miles Robbins in one of the lead roles. Apparently the part has been retooled since the pilot, and no longer requires a double nepo baby. Still no word on when exactly we’re getting a peek at this proj. Presumably the release date has been pushed back to accommodate reshoots with Hutcherson.