Turns out that they had a vastly different experience of that finale, entitled "Person To Person."
My daughter didn't realize that the Coke ad which ended the series was an actual, real ad. She thought it was created for the series.
None of my children knew what a person to person collect call was.
They could have used episode recap.
At some point during the past three years, as I have streamed more and more Golden Age of Television shows - from Mad Men, to Peaky Blinders to Black Mirror and more, I became concurrently aware that for each aired episode there were multiple posted episode recaps. These recaps are not mere summaries, and usually include sophisticated dissections of characters, plot, and context.
The fact is, many of my favorite shows are so complex, I need episode recap.
The characters in Peaky Blinders speak such thickly accented English, I miss entire paragraphs of dialogue. And how about "Game of Thrones"? Who can keep track of that plot?
In the Black Mirror series, there is an episode, "The Entire History of You," set in in the near future where most people have a 'grain' implanted behind their ear that records everything they do, see or hear. This allows memories to be played back either in front of the person's eyes or on a screen, a process known as a 're-do'.
It's episode recap for life.
Maybe not so far fetched...
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