Posted
11:22 AM
by Gene
Terry Teachout
posts very insightfully on Peanuts (and he links to
an essay equally as insightful), including this tidbit:
For my generation, part of the point of watching a TV series was its regularity. It was a social event, a communal activity. You structured your week around it, and so did your family and friends. The introduction of the VCR eliminated this iron necessity, and for me it also eliminated much of the attraction of series TV, which I no longer watch.TRANSLATION: SUMNERS and SLIMES and JEFF ZUCKS can YouTube and Hulu TV series to death, but that won't bring them back, especially when other things conspire to make them so unappealing.