If the 2010s were the Golden Age of Peak TV, the 2020s have become the Age of Anxiety. As a consumer who still remembers the shared ritual of appointment viewing (waiting all week for Lost or Game of Thrones ), the current landscape of entertainment feels simultaneously like a utopian buffet and a dystopian firehose.
Popular media is not dying , but it is sick with a virus of convenience. We have prioritized volume over ritual. We have swapped the movie theater popcorn for the subway commute earbuds. www.xxnxxx.com
We are living through a paradox: