An event or moment · 2023 · Television
The finale that moved the schedule
A soap opera ends after decades and national broadcast schedules were rearranged around it.
Not an attachment to a character but to a piece of shared civic infrastructure, and grief measured academically in the same weeks. It is the clearest evidence that parasocial bonds can attach to a place, not a person.
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