A work · 1978 · Cinema
The holiday special
A television film made for a fictional holiday, aired once, about characters the audience believed they owned.
The strangest parasocial document in the file. An entire fictional religion, complete with costume, was made for an audience that had formed a genuine attachment, and that audience watched it and understood it as a gift.
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