The veteran television writer Jenni Konner knows how to tune out bad press. After all, she spent six seasons as the co-showrunner of HBO’s Girls , the lightning-rod series that was bashed as frequently as it was hailed for its brilliance. “Having been on Girls for so many years, we’re pretty hardened to the world’s criticism in a lot of ways,” she says.

But even if she’s more or less inured to critiques, that doesn’t mean Konner hasn’t heard them, which makes our conversation over Zoom one October morning an unusual one. Konner knows that I had some harsh words for the first season of Netflix’s Nobody Wants This, her latest project, which drops its second season on Oct. 23.

Konner didn’t work on the episodes where I detected a mean-spirited depiction of Jewish women. (The p

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