There’s a lot of TV content out there. In fact, sometimes it feels like there’s maybe too much TV to watch. However, there’s a certain set of shows that it seems everyone agrees “these are the prestige shows”. The shows that the critics talk about. The shows that people say “that’s quality”. Of course, these days there are even more of those than ever as well. On this week’s show Mav and Wayne are joined by sort-of-returning guest George Tsakiridis to talk about the concept of peak television and what makes it work. Plus we’re going to talk about not only why this kind of television is worth analyzing, and since George is currently in the process of editing an essay collection on Theology and Peak TV, we’re going to discuss why anyone would want to discuss a theoretically non-religious show with a theological lens — and what does that even mean anyway? Well hopefully we’ll break it all down, so listen and then give us your thoughts in the comments.
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- Submit and abstract to George’s CFP for Religion & Peak TV
- The Revolution Was Televised by Alan Seppinwall
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