PARASOCIALIZE

A work · 1978 · Cinema

The holiday special

A television film made for a fictional holiday, aired once, about characters the audience believed they owned.

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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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