For a show about two aspiring comedians who treated pop-culture trivia as a blood sport and regarded every social interaction as an opportunity for judgment, Difficult People has aged alarmingly well.
Nearly a decade after the Hulu comedy ended its three-season run, creator and star Julie Klausner still has plenty left to say through the perpetually aggrieved avatars she created with co-star Billy Eichner. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the series’ first-ever Blu-ray release (available today and featuring Klausner and Eichner providing commentary tracks for three of their favorite episodes), Klausner revealed that she and longtime collaborator Alex Scordelis wrote a feature-length continuation of the show in 2022 and that reviving it remains “a complete dream.”
“We did write a movie,” Klausner says. “It’s called Difficult People: Ahead of Their Time.”
The title may sound tongue in cheek, but Klausner increasingly thinks it fits. Many of the ideas the series toyed with, from conspiracy theories and internet pile-ons to rapidly evolving conversations around gender and identity, have since migrated from the fringes into everyday discourse.
“The ideas we were circling that at the time were a novelty and now are, for better or worse, in the mainstream conversation,” she says. The recent return of HBO’s The Comeback only strengthened her conviction that Billy and Julie still have unfinished business.
