Slate TV critic Willa Paskin interviewed Konner to keynote the 10th annual New York Television Festival, filling a Chelsea movie theater with industry newbies, wannabes and fans of the hit HBO series, which is soon to begin its fourth season. Konner was already a series veteran when she saw Lena Dunham's film Tiny Furniture and became, she said obsessed with its uninhibited and unabashed tone. “When I'm obsessed with something, I really lock in,” she said.