As television series grew ever more prestigious, their distinctions became ever more blurred, both from movies and among themselves. Right after Game of Thrones (2011–2019) showed its white walkers besiege Winterfell on the same April weekend when Avengers: Endgame (2019) premiered, one critic dubbed it “the decisive defeat of cinema by content.” His description was incomplete: content had overthrown television as well. As the result of creative effects from business decisions, beneficial as well as malignant, this winter had been long coming.
