The Stranger Things Netflix Problem is Killing TV

It's funny how I remember being told "don't believe everything you see on TV" but so many people explicitly believe everything they see on Facebook or Twitter.

LINDSEY IS RUNNING FOR OFFICE IN FULTON? FUCK YES QUEEN GET IT

When I was young, middle school age, I was writing essays on whether I believed capital punishment was something that I supported... So yeah, I think it's fine to talk to kids and allowing them to start developing their own opinions.

Friday PDS? It's been a long time since we had one of those

The lack of Mindhunter season 3 breaks my heart every time I see it just sitting on season 2. Absolutely tragic.

As a film production worker who actually has gotten to work in the art department on some of these massive shows for Netflix and HBO I can say the long breaks and lead time are often kind of necessary. We're spinning up a new season of one of those HBO shows right now and we're basically making a series of hour long movies, we usually have to do 6 months of prep before we even start to roll cameras on what will be often be a 9-12 month shoot. Attention to detail is everything on these big fan service shows, sets need to be built, props created often from scratch and brought to life this all takes time and a ton of work to achieve. On the point of crews working less its also interesting because for those of us lucky enough to work on these big shows, we're actually feeling burn out, we leap frog from 1 18 month project to the next with little to no down time in between, while anyone unlucky enough to be less connected or have less experience are struggling to find any work at all as the landscape changes and streamers are investing less in lower volumes of mid/lower budget content, and we try not to complain because there is a whole line of people ready to take our seat on the bus if we want to get off, but there's no garunte there is space to get back on, so we just run ourselves into the ground. I wish there was a solution to that but at the same time im just thankful to have a job. Just some insights from someone on the ground.

Media literacy is so important and I think it’s fallen by the wayside as we’ve gotten more into the age of technology. I think adults unfortunately assumed if kids grew up with technology in their life from the start then media literacy would be inherently developed but it obviously isn’t. I remember media literacy being taught from an early age when I was a kid. It emphasized the importance of knowing how to distinguish between reputable/non-reputable sources, pick up on bias, and identify ulterior motivations to news and information from as young as 6 years old. This all being taught by my librarians during computer class which does not exist anymore. We’re failing our children by not having media literacy as part of the curriculum since media and the internet is such a large part of their lives growing up.

As a teacher. We try to teach media literacy. Unfortunately, more and more often, parents expect us to teach their kids everything. It's hard enough teaching them how to read, write, do math, science and social studies. Now we have to teach them how to be kind, respectful, patient, how stay in control of their emotions, and critical thinking. Basically anything you can think of we have to teach it. When many teachers have more than 30 kids in classroom, and have attention starved kids. It becomes highly difficult to guarantee you kid learns everything that we teach. If you as a parent think that something is important for your kids to learn, you need to check in with you kids, make sure they know that it is important. Check in with them. See if they need help learning. Show them that it is important. If we want to help our kids. We need to work together.

It feels crazier when you accept that modern content is intentionally written as “second screen viewing,” meaning they intentionally dumb it down for the audience because they assume you’ll be on your phone while viewing.

Hearing the stats for 8 year olds on social media is absolutely heartbreaking. I mean, my childhood wasn't *that* different, just in a different era of the internet, but that is an extremely volitile situation