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Prestige TV Eats Its Own Tail

The specific tools that made prestige TV great have, across two decades of refinement, become the tools that are now limiting it. An essay on formal exhaustion.

Priya Nair·30 Dec·6 min

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The Limited Series Is Killing the Ongoing Series

The limited series is absorbing the specific talent, capital, and formal experimentation that used to sustain the multi-season drama. An essay on what the two forms do differently, and what we are losing.

Priya Nair·5 Aug·7 min