FalseArt 2008
The Tree Had Better Shit to Do: Sesame Street’s Accidental Beckett and the Puppets Who Made Existentialism Sing
Somewhere in the vast corporate labyrinth of Children’s Television Workshop, some lunatic. blessed, probably way underpaid, convinced a room full of executives that what American four-year-olds really needed was Samuel Beckett filtered through puppet nihilism. And they were absolutely goddamn right. Because here’s what Waiting for Elmo understands that most prestige television has forgotten: absurdity […]
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