I'm gonna say something controversial but... I miss cable. I miss being able to put a channel on the TV and have it change shows. Even the commercials for some reason I miss. Like im missing out on society.
Back in the network TV days, and then through the cable years, there was a sense of a shared cultural experience.
Now there are so many choices of media to consume that everybody essentially lives in their own bubble, with some people existing in an entirely different reality.
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I have been thinking about this of late. The pop culture experience is really really different now.
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I was thinking about this last night.
Remember when Friday morning meant you'd be talking about what happened on Seinfeld the night before? There's no more, "I have to wait a week to see another episode."
I didn't see this coming, but I miss that.
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I always wondered, in sci-fi shows & movies, why they would show the future with less tech when the possibility of what could be achieved is so vast for technology, etc. I get it now. Back to a simpler life when we had community & freedom from the tether of tech & being accessible to the world 24/7.
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And that says it all about our society today.
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Yep,we are a splintered culture. Hell,even people living in the same house are having different cultural experiences from their individual devices.
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I really don’t get why streamers seem to not have a nightly release. Almost everything seems to be Friday release.
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Yes! I remember as a kid, my parents and their friends would discuss the same shows. The same shows my friends parents were watching.
Now I try to talk about the newest episode of something that I assumed everyone knows about because it’s #1 on Hulu’s list… And no one knows what I’m talking about.
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Agreed, and this is also happening with music, and even news media. So many bubbles and rabbit holes with streaming that shared cultural experiences are non existent.
