Thank Gen Z for the 'Girls' Revival

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThis is BBN Investigates. This afternoon, a question that has haunted nobody: who is behind the revival of the HBO series Girls?

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHank, we spent months on this. The trail leads to a generation, and Wired has named it in print: Gen Z.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA whole generation. Armed with phones. I've seen less organised uprisings.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHere is what the documents show. Wired reports the show was a stand-in for everything wrong with white millennial women during its original run.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo it was the most blamed show on television, and everyone had an opinion before the credits rolled.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThen, according to Wired, something changed. Gen Z started watching.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWatching.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWatching, Dale. Voluntarily. Nobody has yet explained who gave the order.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLet's build a timeline. The show airs, the show is blamed for everything, and years pass.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd then, in the last act, a new audience arrives with a remote. Our sources call this the revival.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's the whole timeline?

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt is all we are cleared to show you.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOur analyst has a chart, and a second chart explaining the first. Both say the same: sofa.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat chart proves nothing, Dale.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt proves it beautifully. Nothing, in colour.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWe then asked the hard question: why would a generation raised on screens sit down and watch a show about people their parents' age?

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHere's the rabbit hole.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIf one generation can resurrect a show, then it can resurrect any show, and nobody is safe from being rediscovered. Think of every cancelled thing in your past.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have reported from places where an unwanted past comes back. This is the first time it came back with a streaming subscription.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCan we get back to the facts?

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe facts are these. A show was loathed, then it was discovered by people who were not around to loathe it.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo they came to it fresh, with no baggage, just free time.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI was hoping for a cover-up.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThere is no cover-up. Our months of work end at a simple, unsettling truth.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYoung people watch television, and some of it is old.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorCase closed. Our suspect: a viewer, single-handedly responsible for the entire revival.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd she's allegedly on season three by now.