Judging by many of the reviews, we viewers gave the main character 60 minutes of our attention and by the end we cared about him. The hostage spent 40 minutes with this character and then he cared. The Smithereens CEO was on the phone with him for just 10 minutes. And he cared.
But as the end of the episode shows, our lives now are built around notifications and two second glances... and that's not enough to care.
Somewhere between lives full of ten minute interactions and two second clips we crossed the threshold. The threshold between meaningful lives full of caring people and now lonely, empty ones. I think the mother who solves the riddle of her daughter's suicide will find that ultimately, this emptiness was the cause. Nobody looks at the sky anymore.
Instead of building human connections with people, our relationships have been reduced to two-second swaps of dog photos, blown into smithereens.
But as the end of the episode shows, our lives now are built around notifications and two second glances... and that's not enough to care.
Somewhere between lives full of ten minute interactions and two second clips we crossed the threshold. The threshold between meaningful lives full of caring people and now lonely, empty ones. I think the mother who solves the riddle of her daughter's suicide will find that ultimately, this emptiness was the cause. Nobody looks at the sky anymore.
Instead of building human connections with people, our relationships have been reduced to two-second swaps of dog photos, blown into smithereens.