QUESTION: Write a textual analysis of a short piece of television, of no more than 3 minutes in length, that enables you to explore some of the ideas set out in Milly Buonnano’s critical history of television and television studies, The Age of Television: Experiences and Theories (2008). In this essay, you should reflect on the ways in which the critical analysis of television might be both similar to and different from that of film.

Compare ONE drama from Netflix/Amazon Prime’s original programming with ONE serial drama from a network or cable provider. To what extent do their narrational strategies differ, and why? Your answer should draw from Mittell’s work on narrative complexity and McCormick’s discussion of Netflix’s original programming