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Chuck Klosterman on TV Franchises, Passive Consumption, and Dream Sequences. Plus, Alison Brie on Her New Movie, ‘Somebody I Used to Know.’

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The Train Goes Into Tunnels More Than You Think

Fleishman: I find that flipping from channel to channel is still an amazing experience because I just can remember flipping through four channels just waiting for anything that was not bad. So when I'm on Pluto and he's watching this slow TV thing I'm watching this train go through and then the next night it was like a there's a train ride kind of I think kind of through Canada or something. It's a different kind of relaxing because it's not like staring at nothing and it's notlike following something. And this seems like a TV channel that's actually geared toward it also to me feels like I'm dreaming while I'm awake because it's completely uncontextualized. Fle

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