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By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA | Reporter
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, creators of “Girls,” have taken on the task of bringing Palisadian Jennifer Garner back to our television screens with a new eight-episode series for HBO entitled “Camping.”
It may be a fitting title as Garner has been in the woods recently with “The Tribes of Palos Verdes” and “Llama Llama.”
Garner has been in hit movies like “Dallas Buyers Club” and “13 Going on 30.” (Come on, don’t pretend you didn’t like the “Thriller” dance scene.)
With her Golden Globe-winning experience on “Alias,” and Dunham and Konner’s experience creating the hit show “Girls,” perhaps we can put aside past tabloid dramas and remember Garner for what she really is: a diverse actress, with the range to play everything from a highly trained assassin in “Elektra” to a stoner’s girlfriend in “Dude, Where’s My Car?”
Her new role was described to Variety Magazine as “messy, tough and provocative.”
“Camping” will be a remake of a British TV show created and directed by the often-outrageous Londoner Julia Davis, following the comic chaos unleashed when urban friends try to reconnect in the countryside.
Hopefully it will remind us of why we fell in love with Garner the first time around—not just the cheekbones and the charm, but her immaculate craft as an actress.
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