This is not a drill: a Girls revival is happening. Five new episodes will be filmed for HBO next year. Lena Dunham, the creator and star of the series, announced it on social media with a group call, asking the cast about their summer plans and suggesting they return to shooting the series. Spoiler: they accepted.

Why Girls defined a generation

In 2012, when we discovered Hannah, Marnie, Jessa, and Shoshanna on TV, we had no idea how revolutionary Girls would be. We had recently said goodbye to Gossip Girl and The O.C. . Girls captured that feeling of thinking you had it all figured out at twenty and discovering that college credits don't guarantee a salary.…