A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Casey McCormick examines what she calls “Netflix poetics” to explore how the proliferation of video-on-demand services such as Netflix is changing the way we watch and experience TV finales.
Casey McCormick uses the Twitter reaction to the end of the Obama administration as a jumping off point to explain why finales matter and how audiences express an ambivalence regarding the ends of longform televisual storytelling.
Casey McCormick analyzes the relationship of the season finale cliffhanger to the economic, formal, and fandom elements of television, focusing in particular on the season 6 finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead.
