Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Personal Viewing Habits -- From the Golden Age to Peak TV -- Sincerity Peaked -- The Plan of the Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sleeping with Fishes and Talking with Horses: Animality, Identity, and Vegetarianism in The Sopranos -- Introduction: Woke Up This Morning -- The Pilot and "The Beast in Me" -- The Beast Is Me: Communitarianism and Liberalism -- Pass (Over) the Capocollo: Bada-Being What We Eat -- Conclusion: Don't Stop Believing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Bigger the Lie, the More They Believe: Morality and Ethics in The Wire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Two Walters: Walt Whitman's Poetry and the Moral Vision of Breaking Bad -- Walter White, Individualism, and Science -- Walt's Psychological Collapse -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Check Your Settings: Change to a Democratic Framework for Feminist Subtitles -- Breaking Bad -- Sons of Anarchy -- "Difficult Men" and the Persistence of Patriarchy -- Focusing through a Democratic Lens -- Notes -- Bibliography -- "The Lord of War and Thunder": The Morality of Nemesis and Retributive Justice within Justified -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Law and Loyalty in Hellcats -- The Routine: Hellcats' Story -- The Stunt: Law in Hellcats -- The Spotter: Marti's Dilemma -- The Flyer: Alice and the Ethics of Revenge -- The Captain: Savannah's Family and Self-Actualization -- Law and Loyalty -- Overlooked and Concluded -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Justice Is Served: Bryan Fuller's Hannibal and the Evolution of Cultural Morality -- A Moment of Silence -- Dungeons and Red Dragons -- The Novel Approach -- Of Death and Cancellation -- REACHING THE PEAK -- Notes -- Bibliography -- What Made the Devil Do It? -- Introduction -- Lucifer Morningstar -- Amenadiel -- Chloe Decker.

Linda Martin -- Free Will and the Blurred Border between Good and Evil -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Letterkenny: Tolerance Meets Tradition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Morality versus Mortality: The Meaning of (After)Life in The Good Place -- The Happy Interpretation -- A Moral Theory of The Good Place -- The Tragic Interpretation: The Series Finale as a Tragic End for Jason, Chidi, and Eleanor -- Paradise Lost: Justifying the Ways of Human Beings to the Divine -- Suicidal Ideation in the Good Place -- The Good Place and the Era of Peak TV -- Buddhism and Beyond -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- How Television Produces Invisible Communities in an Age of Loneliness: A Detailed Look at 13 Reasons Why -- Seriality, Causation Relations, and Rationalization -- Fatal Decisions: Subjunctive Alternatives -- Behavioral Offers for Late-Modern Life Situations -- Time Foundations and Collective Memory -- Neo-Religious Cult Communities -- Television as a Producer of Truth and Order -- Television's Power, Hubris, and the Last Community -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Can Watching TV Make Me a Unicorn?: TV and the Ethics of Decency -- Television and Map Making -- Television and Mattering -- A Decent Unicorn -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Baby Yoda Effect: A Kantian Analysis of Mandalorian Ethics -- Kantian Ethics: Respect in the Diverse Universe -- Bounty Hunting: A Complicated Code -- The Mandalorian Creed: The Nature of the Way -- Overriding Principles: Moral Beskar -- Do the Magic Moral Thing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- A Black Captain America: Race in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier -- Captain America after Steve Rogers -- The Falcon and Systemic Racism -- The Winter Soldier and the White Habitus -- Isaiah Bradley and the Legacy of (Captain) America's Racist Past -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Character Index.

Episode Index -- About the Contributors.

The essays in this collection analyze a variety of contemporary television shows to argue for the role that TV plays in moral identity formation. Audiences take from television viewing a better sense of what matters to them, ways of relating to others, and a moral sense of the world they inhabit.

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