I'm Brian Curtis from The Ringer and this is the press box.

Picture this.

It's Sunday night.

You're watching TV and you look over at Twitter and notice that a bunch of TV critics are

watching along with you, almost reviewing the lines as they come out of Jon Snow's mouth.

You know, you just go like, oh my god, that episode of Game of Thrones was just, I've

never seen anything like that.

That's amazing.

And then you go online and these other critics are basically sort of saying the same thing,

but they're doing such a better job of saying it was amazing.

That's Damon Lindelof, one of the creators of the HBO show The Leftovers.

In the old art section, there was one towering figure.

That was the movie critic.

Everybody wanted to be a movie critic.

I wanted to be a movie critic.

Being a movie critic meant being a tastemaker and it's standing right at the center of

pop culture.

And if you were really good, you might be called a worthy aired Pauline Kale.

I think a lot of the juice that resided in that job now resides with TV critics.

TV critics won the last two Pulitzer prizes for criticism.

TV critic Matt Zoller-Sites, who also reviews movies, wrote that he'd never seen anything

as innovative as what happened to TV criticism since the mid-Auts.

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