A parent, working with what she's got - a kid eager to watch, an endless supply of streaming, critical faculties - explains by invoking Ben Brantley: "When we find ourselves isolated, and craving connection, we can find it (for a moment at least) though critical engagement with something wonderful someone has made for us. And thank god for WiFi."...
TV execs might say the reason is that audiences don't like to see death (which seems a little odd after the successes of Six Feet Under, but ... sure, network TV). A closer look reveals the driving force: "The real reason there was so little exploration of death in prime-time programming was that advertisers did not want their products...
