Are TV Narratives Getting More Complex Because of Technology?

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Back in the day before Hulu, Netflix, DVDs, and everything else we used to watch TV instead of actual televisions and cable boxes nowadays, media executives weren’t very keen on the idea of serialized narratives in their shows. So does all this changing technology explain why we’re getting so much more complicated content to watch? Yes and no, says PBS Idea Channel.

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