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14 Feb 2018 Conversations with Tyler Matt Levine Live at Bloomberg HQ
“Part of it is its influence on subsequent television. It’s a perfect example of dealing very intelligently with serious themes in a way that, on its surface, and particularly in its title, is silly and is not presented as serious, which I think is, obviously, something that I often aspire to do.”
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- Matt Levine Live at Bloomberg HQ
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…What makes it special? Part of it is, you go back and watch it, and it’s not as good as you think because it has had such an influence on later things that its shockingness has been attenuated. Part of it is its influence on subsequent television. It’s a perfect example of dealing very intelligently with serious themes in a way that, on its surface, and particularly in its title, is silly and is not presented as serious, which I think is, obviously, something that I often aspire to do. I also think it’s something that the internet aspires to do. I think a lot of modern internet culture has that vein of using colloquial language and being casual but attempting to address more serious issues. Buffy didn’t invent that, but Buffy is a cultural touchstone for some of that approach. Hearkening back to the Romans, Virgil’s magnum opus, the Aeneid. Overrated?…
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