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Jason Mittell / Middlebury College

Three Evasions of the Future of Television
Jason Mittell / Middlebury College

January 20, 2014 Jason Mittell / Middlebury College One comment

Mittell thinks through the multiple pasts and futures of television.

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The Best of Television: The Inaugural Flow Critics’ Poll

September 22, 2006 Jason Mittell / Middlebury College 10 comments

by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
And the winner is…

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Lost in an Alternate Reality

June 16, 2006 Jason Mittell / Middlebury College 4 comments

by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What can the online game “The Lost Experience” teach us about cross-media storytelling and expectations? Is this the future of television?

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TiVoing Childhood

February 24, 2006 Jason Mittell / Middlebury College 10 comments

by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What is television to a child who only knows TiVo?

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An Arresting Development

December 16, 2005 Jason Mittell / Middlebury College 10 comments

by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What can the cancellation of Arrested Development tell us about the present and future state of the television industry?

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Exchanges of Value

October 21, 2005 Jason Mittell / Middlebury College 4 comments

by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
In today’s digital media environment, what’s an episode of Veronica Mars really worth?

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The Value of Lost, Part Two

August 5, 2005 Jason Mittell / Middlebury College 10 comments

by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
Building on his last column, Jason Mittell offers up a gripping example of evaluative criticism to support his claim that “Lost is the best show on American broadcast TV.

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The Loss of Value (or the Value of Lost)

May 27, 2005 Jason Mittell / Middlebury College 14 comments

by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
I wish to make a claim that may be the most controversial position as yet argued in Flow‘s brief but vibrant first year: Lost is the best show on American broadcast television.

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From Squid Game pop-ups to Netflix House installations, Hyun-Jung Stephany Noh traces how dystopian K-dramas become immersive, branded experiences. Her essay shows how Netflix turns speculative fiction into a global marketing spectacle
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Helen Piper examines the show The Assembly and compares the UK & Australian versions. In doing so, she reveals how format and post-production choices shape risk, reciprocity, and the politics of inclusion.

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Guillermina Zabala Suárez asks: Can digital media become a device to create awareness of health issues in out communities?

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In a new essay, @LaurelPRogers examines the role of the fanboy auteur in HBO's backstage comedy "The Franchise," which satirizes Hollywood's superhero industrial complex. Read: https://www.flowjournal.org/2025/07/fanboy-auteur-hbo-franchise/

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