blankverse, two years later
it’s a little under one week before blankverse aired its last episode (although that was technically on a sunday). for those who have been following me since the beginning of emma approved, you might have witnessed the amount of posts i was making about this show. for those who don’t know this show–and it’s not surprising, since it didn’t get a lot of attention at the time–blankverse was a show that modernized shakespeare and his contemporaries into a modern-day university context. it was essentially an elizabethan era university au.
there are still aspects of my endearment to the show that i can’t fully explain. i only know what it represents to me as a consumer of literary inspired webseries and in the larger context of the evolution of these shows. so we can measure the show against some facts that we now have with the benefit of time. to my surprise, blankverse was actually the predecessor to quite a few things in the literary vlog webseries world, which i list out. finally, i will elaborate on what this show represented to me at the time and now.
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