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Travels in the Binge of TV
A leading film critic on the evolving world of streaming media and its impact on society.
The city at night under lockdown, a time of plague and anxiety. It is an exciting new age of television, the light that flutters in every cell in the city. But no one seems to be asking: What is the endless stream doing to us?
In Remotely, the most innovative writer on film and screens asks what happened to us as we sought consolation under lockdown by becoming a society of bingeing creatures. From "Candid Camera" and "I Love Lucy to Ozark", "Succession", and "Chernobyl", David Thomson and his wife, Lucy Gray, wander through shows old and new, trying to pin down the nature and justification for what we call "entertainment". Funny, mysterious, and warm, at last here is a book that grasps the extent to which television is not just a collection of particular shows – hits and misses – but a weather system in which we are lost pilgrims searching for answers.
The city at night under lockdown, a time of plague and anxiety. It is an exciting new age of television, the light that flutters in every cell in the city. But no one seems to be asking: What is the endless stream doing to us?
In Remotely, the most innovative writer on film and screens asks what happened to us as we sought consolation under lockdown by becoming a society of bingeing creatures. From "Candid Camera" and "I Love Lucy to Ozark", "Succession", and "Chernobyl", David Thomson and his wife, Lucy Gray, wander through shows old and new, trying to pin down the nature and justification for what we call "entertainment". Funny, mysterious, and warm, at last here is a book that grasps the extent to which television is not just a collection of particular shows – hits and misses – but a weather system in which we are lost pilgrims searching for answers.
About the author
David Thomson is a film critic and historian, and the author of more than twenty books, including "The Biographical Dictionary of Film", now in its sixth edition, and "Why Acting Matters".