Why every movie and TV show follows the same formula
"How is it that we live in an era of apparently unprecedented choice and yet almost every film and TV series, as well as a good many plays and novels, have exactly the same plot?" asks Eliane Glaser in Aeon. "We meet the protagonist in their ordinary world, plodding along, not living their b…
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