In this assignment, you will respond to one episode of television. This response should describe how the television show uses any one of the
following formal conventions:
• Fits into one of Amanda Lotz's 5 categories of new storytelling modes;
• Exemplifies what Jason Mittell calls "narrative complexity";
• Represents a particular idea (theme) or group of people (stereotype) in a helpful or harmful way;
• Captures a particular period of time in television history;
• Has a notable formal innovation in how it looks, sounds, or tells its story.