Browsing: Ruined

I didn’t know when I started watching it that I was watching “anime.” This was the 1980s. We didn’t have Crunchyroll. Hell, we didn’t have Internet. This was the era when the Atari 2600 was considered state-of-the-art gaming.

Remember rushing through dinner on a Tuesday to catch the 8 p.m. episode of your favorite show? The shift from scheduled TV to endless streaming has transformed viewing habits and production schedules, leaving some fans nostalgic for the predictability of weekly episodes. A redditor wrote their TV hot take on r/unpopularopinion: “Streaming has ruined TV…

I get a lot of suggestions for articles and this is one of them. A few months ago someone suggested I do a piece laying out exactly how and why entertainment journalism has gotten so bad. It’s a question I didn’t even know the answer to 100% until I started looking into it. But like…