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The Colbert interview with Joaquin Phoenix was some of the best TV in years. There’s still something about the medium of live-to-tape TV that can, at its best, command time itself. Podcasts ramble. TikToks rush. But the old ritual of television — curtain, desk, pause — can freeze the clock when something real or strange breaks through. TV still has access to kairos — the opportune moment, vertical time. Social media lives in chronos, forever scrolling but cannot flex. It marches. It ticks. It counts. But kairos pounces. It opens a seam in the now. Not to make a moment matter — but to make time feel different.
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The medium of TV I feel like often fits into that 24 hour limitation of what a day provides. So you really only get a few slots and therefore TV shows essentially have to work within that frame. TikTok is competing for that attention span which is top of the funnel Winter takes all. Podcast or just background noise kind of permanent. There is a certain kind of specialness I think TV provide provide because of that constraint
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Totally — I think there’s a kind of homeostasis between TV and the human body (maybe I’m biased too, raised inside that rhythm). It’s been abused to death — overproduced, flattened, commodified — but when it works, it really does work. It locks into something physical, almost metabolic. You sit, the lights change, the theme plays, the segment shifts. It’s not just content — it’s a ritualized pacing that knows how long your nervous system can stretch before snapping. That’s something TikTok of YouTube doesn’t know and podcasts don’t care about. TV at its best doesn’t just fill time it metabolizes it. I mean its time has passed but something similar la r will take its place when coordination at scale is required again
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I think it’s the the changing medium of screens. One would have to experience radio initially only through radios. Therefore radio had a very broadcasting feel to them. Shared stories that reach more people than ever. Movie theaters I feel like came next and provided visual stories but you still had to visit theaters. In a way TV shows were the last bastion of physical limited time bound media. I feel like the Internet provided input, the shift from TV to Internet made it so that you could click and choose. The freedom to choose also unfortunately gave us infinite choice. And therefore broke that physical limitation of bounded timeless to that media that TV had
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