In the interview, Asghar and Bailey highlight the fact that Brown Girls is all about representation. Everyone in the cast is a person of color, making it a story that people “hadn’t seen before” that is still “relatable.” Starring Nabila Hossain as a Pakistani-American writer and Sonia Denis her musician best friend, it effortlessly highlights communities that you don’t often see on traditional TV.
Speaking of, Asghar and Bailey also make it clear in the Elle interview that their goal is for the HBO show to live up to the “resourcefully fly” spirit of the Brown Girls web series, with Asghar noting that she wants the show to be “gritty” instead of “flashy and smooth,” even though they’ll be getting more money to make it. Bailey also adds that HBO has been supportive of their desire to embrace the same kind of music as the web series, which exclusively featured artists who were women of color (most of whom were from Chicago as well).
The HBO show is obviously still in very early stages of development, but you can catch the Brown Girls web series at this link.
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