Sunday, March 8, 2020

Is feel-bad TV exploiting popular fears about environmental and social disaster? By Cli-Fi Maven Lauren Carroll Harris in OZ on The Screen Show



''Is feel-bad TV exploiting popular fears about environmental and social disaster?'' asks a veteran TV critic in OZ

By Lauren Carroll Harris on The Screen Show
Lauren Carroll Harris on the island of Australia
@DrLaurenCH
TV critic #TheScreenShow, Thursdays, . I curate Prototype & write for , , , web.


She tweets: ''The Handmaid's Tale just began production on its fourth season having exhausted the plot of Atwood's original behind three series ago. The showrunner intends on ten seasons of this mother/hero's journey....good grief.''

LAUREN tweets to Aussie pal Mireille Juchau, cli-fi novelist and author of THE WORLD WITHOUT US after Mireille praised Lauren: ''This was terrific Lauren, thank you. I too have wondered why the climate crisis isn't appearing in TV drama (though The Commons addresses it). It's surely the backdrop to all our contemporary stories - no longer a dystopian future but a very real present...''

thank you! tbh The World Without Us would make for a more nuanced onscreen cli-fi (a term I just adore!) story than The Commons but I wouldn't want it subjected to the industrial storytelling practices of the prestige TV hellscape ;-)


Mireille Juchau then tells Lauren in a Tweet:
Ah! [My novel] is in the works [for a TV show], so fingers crossed.

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