What I Learned by Cord Cutting: Millennials Enjoy Trauma and Suffering
RUSH: What I have noticed is, the more trauma in a TV show -- the more personal trauma, the more suffering -- the better. These young Millennials, they love television shows and movies depicting stress, posttraumatic stress disorder, trauma. The worse the better, the suffering. And the purpose of television these days, for them, is to demonstrate how to cope with all of this. And the reason that they enjoy this, I have concluded, is 'cause that's what their lives are today.
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