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nex3
@nex3

I think writing the TV guide blurbs about each episode must be the hardest job in the world. Watch a full television show, probably more than one to make sure you understand the relevant context, then summarize it well enough so someone can tell whether they've seen it or decide if it's interesting without giving away anything that actually happens in it. In two or maybe three sentences. Do this dozens of times with dozens of shows which are on average brainsearingly awful. No matter how well you do your job no one will ever notice or care. Good luck


TalenLee
@TalenLee

when I was a youth and there were five channels, this job fell to every newspaper to put out a TV listing somewhere inside them, and most famously I remember a time when I read the entry for a late-night tv movie that I was only reading because I was up late hoping to see a boob and a gun in the same show, where a tv show's content was listed as 'Something, I don't know.'


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in reply to @nex3's post:

i don’t have any examples at hand but i vaguely remember the game of thrones episode descriptions being funny. the show’s plotting got complex enough it couldn’t be summarized and they didn’t want to give away what happens so they eventually became SO incredibly vague and meaningless

I do this for multiple games in my newsletter every week lol. I write a single line blurb about games I've never played before. It's not as hard as it sounds, and it just takes practice. After a while you recognize the shape of a story by skimming over the plot summary.