An event or moment · 1983 · Television
M*A*S*H
Twenty-eight million people watched a television finale and the largest audience for a broadcast in history.
The high-water mark of collective parasocial grief in broadcast television, watched by people who had never met a single person in it. Everything since has been smaller and more numerous.
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