How big a bonus does the HBO marketing department deserve? Let me count the thinkpieces (an incomplete list — interviews are not counted because there are just so fucking many of them):
-The slacker is back – and this time she’s female — The Guardian, 3/24
-It’s Different for ‘Girls’ — New York Magazine, 3/25
-Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ and the Rise of the Female Slacker — Jezebel, 3/27
-Lena Dunham: Unwatchable in the Best Way — The New Yorker, 3/27
-The Bleaker Sex — The New York Times, 3/31
-Naked in New York — The New York Times, 3/31
-The Thing About All These New TV Shows About Girls — Thought Catalog, 4/4
-’Girls’ Talk — The New Yorker, 4/5
-The Unbearable Lightness of ‘Girls’ — Tablet, 4/6
-’Girls’ of HBO’s frank new television comedy share their mortifying moments — The Denver Post, 4/8
-Why Is the Sex on HBO’s Girls Such a Drag? — Slate, 4/9
-The Awkward Honest of ‘Girls’ — Splitsider, 4/10
-Why I’m Deeply Skeptical of HBO’s Super-Hyped Show ‘Girls’ — Alternet, 4/11
-True, new female friendship — Salon, 4/11
-’Girls’: The new ‘Sex and the City’? — The Express Tribune, 4/11
-’Girls’: What the Hell Was HBO Thinking? — Mother Jones, 4/11
-HBO’s ‘Girls’ shows that life is complicated for TV’s single females — Kansas City Star, 4/12
-HBO’s ‘Girls’ brilliantly channels Lena Dunham’s comic voice — Hitfix, 4/12
-Is HBO’s ‘Girls’ the Voice of Our Generation? Nope, And That’s Ok — Good Magazine, 4/12
-HBO’s ‘Girls’ Is the Best New TV Show of 2012 — The Daily Beast, 4/12
-The radical message of ‘Girls’ — LA Times, 4/12
-’Girls’: Getting It Right While Doing it Wrong — The Atlantic, 4/12
-Girls Will Be Girls — The New Yorker, 4/16
-Girl Riot — Time, 4/16