It’s increasingly hard to care about fiction on TV, with producers of the biggest shows doing everything they can to undermine their own stories. The seemingly inevitable push towards cultural irrelevance is driven by the insatiable hunger of streaming platforms, and all of the issues are entirely self-inflicted.

As creators of and audiences for serial fiction, I think it’s worth poking at what’s going on so that we can at least avoid the same traps.

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