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Why Seriality w/ Ryan Engley

Žižek And So On

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Freud's Interpretation of Seriality

Michael: I think the sort of artificial limitations of the clinic like that they're on the cusp of some kind of breakthrough that's interesting. He says he is always wary as a dream to be interpreted in this particular way but it produces an sense of depth and there's no reason why we shouldn't take dreams seriously. Michael thinks true blood might be the most egregious offender of this type of cliffhanger because you watch 40 seconds of the next episode and whatever tension was there is just immediately resolved. The end of the original Italian job could have wrapped up with another literal cliffhanger yeah absolutely absolutely no literal cliffhangers are great, Ryan said.

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