Inside Hollywood's Microdrama Boom: NYT Visits an Industry Rebuilt Around Phone-Optimized Shows
jjvincent · x · 2026-10-07
NYT Magazine's Daniel Kolitz spent weeks exploring a Hollywood almost entirely reoriented around producing "microdramas" — soap-opera-like shows that are short, completely demented, and optimized for phones. What started as one kind of sad story ended as another, differently sad one. Sharer Jonah Allon highlighted one section as particularly striking.
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