Stars of the 5 Inch Screen
I'm taking a day or two off of spec-related puns to write about some other topics. Today, I revisit the tyranny of choice as a film adaptation. I'm not sure about you, but I feel inundated by the overwhelming number of television series I'm expected to follow. Whether it's via friends' recommendations, online recommendations, or via the antiquated TV news that drones on in the background of my day so the dog always has white noise to listen to, I feel there's at least a new show being shoved at me per week that should be added to my bucket list. As a child, I was a faithful linear programming follower. And, when Netflix on DVD first appeared, I willingly binged series in a bid to return my current digitized allotment as fast as possible to work through my queue. But, as the number of content producers exploded, I slowly migrated from attempting to watch as many series as possible, to attempting to jot down as many as possible for later viewing, to nodding al...