![]() ![]() We have one more to go – at a date to be determined, likely in 2019, a punishingly long time to wait now that the wall has a giant hole in it and the army of white walkers is marching through it, ready to wipe out civilization as we have come to know it. ![]() This wasn’t even the final season of Thrones. The ferocious swell of excitement each week that accompanied every new episode and continuously expanded the show’s audience was unlike anything I have seen since the early seasons of AMC’s The Walking Deadand, before that, HBO’s The Sopranos. Game of Thrones this season certainly let some of the hot air out of that balloon. The days of television bringing us together with anything other than breaking news coverage, major sports events and certain awards shows are in our collective rear-view mirror, or so we have been led to believe. For quite some time now we have been told over and over again that technology has forever transformed us from a society that embraces shared experiences – something at which broadcast television and, before it, terrestrial radio excelled – into one whose citizens prefer to ingest (or digest) entertainment and informational content in ways that lead to ever-increasing social isolation. ![]()
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