Microprocessing
Long Live Recap Podcasts
“Game of Thrones” has ended — but recap podcasts will endure
In Microprocessing, columnist Angela Lashbrook aims to improve your relationship with technology every week. Microprocessing goes deep on the little things that define your online life today, to give you a better tomorrow.
Daenerys and her dragons didn’t just come for King’s Landing. They came for my content.
Though the last season of Game of Thrones was widely regarded as a creative failure, people watched — more than 19 million for the series finale last month. And more importantly, they tweeted, blogged, and podcasted. (As The Outline reported in April, some outlets produced hundreds, if not thousands, of individual pieces of GoT coverage.)
I love Game of Thrones, but I’m not the world’s biggest fan. I haven’t read all the books, I don’t follow the stars on social media, and I’m not going to name my future daughter Arya. I am an avid podcast listener, though. And what I love — or loved — about Thrones, probably more than the show itself, was the discussion that surrounded it: the swarm of conversation, debate, and theorizing that emerges from a true pop culture phenomenon.
