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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 Biggest Thing Is Not What You Want to Write About

I love that the biggest thing in this like medium of art is something I haven't seen. It was starting to feel like it was impossible to not experience the biggest things. And I'm glad that still happens. If we're going to more and more often see that the thing that is most important to the largest number of people will be more and more distant from the coverage of culture. That's how it used to be. But now it's infected the entire corporate parent, because now Showtime, this is the other bit of news that I wanted to get to, is kind of trying to Yellowstone itself, or at least replicate that success.

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