What defines millennial television? Just ask Lena Dunham
News Source : Salon
News Summary
- The internet can't agree on what makes a show millennial.
- Lena Dunham is the best possible line of demarcation for “millennial art” for meta-textual and arithmetic reasons.
- “The Office,” with its belief in finding salvation and love through the surrogate family at your soul-sucking work job, was millennial, but so was the shaggy anti-ambition of “Workaholics.” “Easy Rider was an important movie for Baby Boomers, a cultural touchstone for a generation that liked to see themselves in the maverick Dennis Hopper, but it was not “boomer art’
A shaky Rolling Stone expos published earlier this month set out to examine comedian Reggie Watts potential culpability in his exgirlfriends suicide.
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