Is Girls Really a Show for Boys?S  From the moment it debuted,
Lena Dunham's Girls has been talked about as the show for this
generation of women— er, girls, whatever. It was crowned the new
Sex and the City, and blarbity blarbity blaaarb. But Vulture has
done some impressive number crunching in cooperation with HBO,
and it turns out that men are actually the show's biggest
audience. It's weird, I know! A whopping 56 percent of the
show's "linear" audience (which is anyone who watches an episode
live or rebroadcast during the week or on a DVR) is male, and 22
percent of those guys are over 50. Either they're tuning in for
the ladies (and their sometimes nudity), or they're sincerely
interested in understanding more about the lives of this
generation of wealthy white girls. It's anybody's guess.
Anyway, the other 44 percent of the linear audience is female,
but it also seems that for whatever reason more women are
watching it on demand than live. However, even considering those
women, the audience still skews