As Girls Comes to an End, the Cast Looks at the Show's Legacy

Girls kicks off its sixth and final season this Sunday on HBO, and with that beginning of the end comes a look back at the controversial, groundbreaking dramedy.

After the memories of the controversies have faded and the particular generation of affluent Millennial New York City life it depicts ages into its 30s and beyond, how will we think of Girls?

In the immediate short-term, one of Girls' biggest contributions has to do with a boy -- it's the place where movie star and Snickers pitchman Adam Driver first came to public attention.

The success of Girls showed Hollywood that these kinds of unapologetically feminist shows about complicated women created and produced by women are worth making.

Girls may end up being a TV Velvet Underground that inspires the next David Bowie -- the smaller, more challenging thing that wasn't for everyone but without whose influence the enormous, universally beloved thing wouldn't exist, and whose influence is also felt in every smaller show that traffics in similar tone and subject matter.

TVGuide.com put the question of legacy to the cast and crew of Girls on the Season 6 premiere red carpet last week, and some answered with variations on that idea.

Jon Glaser, who has a recurring role as Hannah's neighbor/Adam's sort-of brother-in-law Laird, isn't so high-minded about it.

Glaser -- who has been a part of an impressive number of influential comedy series, from The Dana Carvey Show to Parks and Recreation -- thinks that at the end of the day, if people are still going to watch it or remember it, it'll be for how good it was.

[...] people's personal feelings about Dunham's public persona shouldn't overshadow what she and her team accomplished artistically.