Gen Z Credited for 'Girls' Revival Revival Buzz

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHBO has ordered a five-episode revival of Girls, and Wired says the people to thank are Gen Z, who mostly weren't old enough to watch it the first time.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFolks, let's do this properly. Three points.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint one: the show ended in April twenty seventeen, after six seasons, and it was called a stand-in for everything wrong with white millennial women.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEverything. Not some things. Everything. And the verdict was reversed by people who showed up late with a phone.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint two. Vice reports viewing figures doubled between November twenty twenty-two and January twenty twenty-three, and the hashtag girlshbo has fifty-one million views on TikTok.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFifty-one million views. For a show people once wanted to put on trial. The defendant is now trending.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint three. The New York Post says a Brooklyn stoop from the show now draws fans from around the world. A stoop.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSome steps outside a building.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the critics wrote thousands of words, and the pilgrims are traveling to look at stairs. Nobody ever flew across an ocean for a think piece.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd now Variety says production starts in twenty twenty-seven, with Andrew Rannells back as Elijah. So here's where we are, folks.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe generation that was in school for the argument is settling it.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNine years of outrage, and the stoop got the better review.