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Caught my grandma quoting a show's villain and it hit different
Last Sunday I walked into my grandma's living room in Cleveland and she was watching some Nordic crime drama, totally locked in. Out of nowhere she goes, "the system protects the predator, not the prey," and I realized she wasn't just repeating it, she was nodding along like it made perfect sense to her. That got me thinking about how shows we binge can quietly shift the way we talk about real stuff, even for people who normally don't watch that genre. Have you ever heard a family member or friend drop a line from a show they were watching and it made you see the whole series differently?
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karen_shah5615d ago
Picture my uncle quoting Tony Soprano at Thanksgiving and suddenly the whole family got real quiet about who's "in the family business." Grandma quoting a Nordic villain is way more unsettling than any mob boss line though, honestly.
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