Holly Wainwright

This abstract makes the observation that convenience has flattened certain experiences.

So waiting used to build anticipation.

We don't wait for anything anymore.

Limited access built curiosity.

Not knowing built desire.

And in the trailer alone you see Carolyn wake up to an alarm clock and that was a, I thought, oh, my God, imagine waking up, pressing a button, the alarm stops and there's nothing else to pick up.

There's nothing to scroll through.

Your day has begun.

Wild.

I was struck by the sense that these characters get to live life with two hands.

Whereas I feel like I'm living life with one hand and one hand is totally occupied with something else.

My attention is always half inside my device.

And because of that, the show evokes this feeling of true presence that perhaps you were able to experience things more deeply and more profoundly.

Yeah.

I remember reading an article last year and I can't remember where I read it, but it was about how the automation of what we do every day, like checking our phones a million times and not taking in the novelty of different environments and not noticing

actually speeds life up so it feels like it's going faster and I cannot stop thinking about that that I think the more time I spend on technology the faster life goes so true so I also think shows like this slow time down like or we see that time is slower for those characters Amelia you're watching Love Story are you feeling this yearning for a pre-phone life

It's also way better for plot and like narrative.

Like that is so much more dramatic.

It makes it really hard writing things set in modern day because you're like everything is through a phone.

It's weird to know while you're actively engaged in something as we all are with our phones.