A group of programs divided into seasons or sets of episodes that based on a narrative and is broadcast on television.
Published in Chapter:
Question Concerning Evil in the Age of New Television: Dichotomy of Good and Evil in Money Heist
Kemal Deniz (Munzur University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4778-6.ch010
Abstract
The new developments and transformations that changed the television have also some outcomes about content, style, and performanses in the productions. Thus, quality drama series on dijital television and internet subscription TV platforms like Netflix are getting more attention of the audience. New or sub-genres, anti-heroes, muli-protagonists, moral dilemmas, new inquiries in socio-psychologycal level caused distinction between good and evil becomes more complex in this djital transformation age of television. In this context, Money Heist, which contains a harsh system criticism behind the robberies in its narrative, is considered a symbol of resistance with its unique iconography created by its aesthetics, genre, multi-protagonist characters and story, gained big attantion from global audiences. To understand how Money Heist achieved this audience support, it is evaluated in the context of genre, character structure, and iconography that created a symbolism of resistance in a global scale, considering the developments in television by the digital transformation.