“See all that snow? All that white? On every street and every sidewalk and every car and every parking lot and every patch of lawn? Covering every thing as far as your eyes can see?” Heads nodded. “Look out the window,” I said, pointing to the classroom’s wall of glass, fronting a landscape that had seen a snowfall the night before. They couldn’t seem to connect to the concept let alone the significance of a national TV gathering. Weaned on delayed viewing, they lived lives now of self-catered streamable feasts. Not just that it aired or even that it aired every night for a week, but that after seven straight nights 100 million people tuned in on the eighth to watch its final episode. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a winter Wednesday morning, a few years back, and I was standing in front of my TV 101 class in Philadelphia trying to articulate the importance of the landmark 1977 eight-part miniseries Roots.
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