Essay of the Day, 7/21/12: "The Crying Game"

"The Crying Game: Why Television Brings Us to Tears.”

Flow 5.9 (March 9, 2007).

When I wrote this Flow piece, inspired by the final episode of Six Feet Under, I queried several TV friends about their own television-provoked crying.

Michele Byers' suggestion that there was a book in the subject led to the book we would do on it. Verge's intro was a slightly revised version of the Flow piece.

Read the essay here.