nyc is like a giant tv station broadcasting live 24-7. if something happens to the tv station, we all have to see it on every screen as though it's a completely unprecedented event that has never happened anywhere else and we must all swear to never forget it.

mayoral election day
hurricane makes landfall
snow storm shuts down streets
plane crashes into building
convenience store has an egg sandwich

and then they'll make 3 TV series and 14 movies where the "event" is the context for a major dramatic arc, so we all have to imagine how the snow storm or whatever affected the three marriages of the owner of Joey Baloney's Italiano Restorante & Tire Shop.

if 9-11 would have happened in chicago, there would have been like 6 memes, 2 jokes, and an FX-hulu show that is mostly about alcoholism, then they would have gone on with their lives.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

FX-hulu show that is mostly about alcoholism

FX's 9/11 show was mostly about alcoholism