The medium is our message. We sleuth out data points along the demographic trendlines, and follow them straight towards the beating, gray heart of TV―and beyond. How does it all end? We jump off the edge and file dispatches from the abyss. SOURCES: "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction," by David F. Wallace (Review of Contemporary Fiction 13:2, Summer 1993); _Network_, by Paddy Chayefsky, dir. Sidney Lumet (1976). _Within the Context of No Context_, by George W. S. Trow (Atlantic Monthly Press Books, 1980); _The Corrections_, by Jonathan Franzen (Picador, 2001). SPONSORS: https://youtu.be/mGs4CjeJiJQ ; https://youtu.be/jPybavTSjCc ; https://youtu.be/U7TM4M_PsOA ; https://youtu.be/9M1QF66dFzA ; https://youtu.be/mIuv_dYV498 ; https://youtu.be/m0-wtrC7Vmc ; https://youtu.be/W286CRPwBuo ; https://youtu.be/XLpDiIVX0Wo ; https://youtu.be/7GvYI4VdVEI ; https://youtu.be/HMLt7bSX3iE ; https://youtu.be/YMzh1YsSun0 ; https://youtu.be/MZaePKG543c. Cover art by Benoit Paillé: https://www.lensculture.com/projects/239884-alternatives-landscape