Magic realism takes a world that’s familiar to viewers and then twists a part of that world into a new shape.
It’s been said that looking at a TV is like looking at a mirror; what we see on TV reflects what is happening outside our living rooms in the world at large. But in 2016, that mirror is now straight out of a funhouse. – Tom Hawking, Quartz. Read More:
Agreed. And thanks so much for commenting. Television is a more nimble medium than cinema, in terms of the pace of production. It’s interesting to see how this apparently allows an increased capacity for social commentary in small screen narrative.
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Thanks for sharing this insightful essay. I’m not a huge watcher of television (although I did binge-watch “Stranger Things”), but there are a lot of things to think about here.
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