Summary: Long gone are the days when you could write off television as an artless laugh-tracked distraction. The halcyon years are now, and if you’re not critiquing the sex scenes on Girls or mapping the machinations of Frank Underwood, where have you been? Is serialised cable drama threatening to usurp the novel’s place as the most sophisticated storytelling platform? Has the fine art of binge-watching changed everything? Debra Oswald, Daniel Mendelsohn and Shaun Micallef spent a commercial-free hour with Benjamin Law at the 2015 Sydney Writers' Festival, discussing whether television is now mandatory for our cultural education.
