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Oct 14, 2022

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it only came out a couple of days ago but if you missed this thing I wrote about feeling connection and community with a TV series — maybe you missed it because it had “Station Eleven” in the headline and you never watched — there are some larger points to read about. When you want. I’m just doing a PSA for myself here.

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Missing "Station Eleven" and Riding the Buzz Wave Together.

Some of the beauty in the television industry rests in its tragedy. There is no real recipe for a hit. Nobody knows what will work and therefore so few people look like they know what they’re doing. As the breadth of available shows in the Great Cable Era ran smack into the fearless expansion of the Streaming Era, audiences became more mysterious in the…

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