Stephen Fry described TV as the nation’s fireplace, with the implication that shared viewing of a common canon strengthens cultural connections with other people.
It’s like how millennials can drop a Simpsons quote into a conversation with their peers and everybody gets the reference.
Peak TV has annihilated this. Nobody watches the same stuff anymore.
Did you catch the latest season of Current Thing? No, because there’s no Current Thing any more, there’s a thousand of them.
It’s like how millennials can drop a Simpsons quote into a conversation with their peers and everybody gets the reference.
Peak TV has annihilated this. Nobody watches the same stuff anymore.
Did you catch the latest season of Current Thing? No, because there’s no Current Thing any more, there’s a thousand of them.
The more we watch, the more isolated we become.