
Afterschool Specials
You're Wrong About
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What Are You Thinking About When You're a Teenager?
I find it so interesting that, for example, you and I who grew up watching all sorts of TV and have also been around it for a long time, like we just know the beats of the network special. Part of that is because we're adults, but also part of it, I think, is just because we, the media landscapes that we grew up and had already been so saturated by this form of narrative. We kind of learned it that if someone handed us a piece of paper and set outline a TV movie, we could probably be like, well, after like 20 minutes, this has to happen and after 15 more and then there has to be some kind of reversal. And
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