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What is a television series? A widespread answer takes it to be a
totality of episodes and seasons. Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone
argue against this characterization. In Concept TV: An Aesthetics
of Television Series, they contend that television series are
concepts that manifest themselves through episodes and seasons,
just as works of conceptual art can manifest themselves through
installations or performances. In this sense, a television series
is a conceptual narrative, a principle of construction of similar
narratives. While the film viewer directly appreciates a narrative
made of images and sounds, the TV viewer relies on images and
sounds to grasp the conceptual narrative that they express. Here
lies the key difference between television and film. Reflecting on
this difference paves the way for an aesthetics of television
series that makes room for their alleged prolixity, their tendency
to repetition, and their lack of narrative closure. Bandirali and
Terrone shed light on the specific ways in which television series
are evaluated, arguing that some apparent flaws of them are,
indeed, aesthetic merits when considered from a conceptual
perspective. Hence, to maximize the aesthetic value of television
series, one should not assess them in the same framework in which
films are assessed but rather in this new conceptual framework.
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