"[There were] spectacular, star-studded miniseries or TV movies, but the idea of a weekly series that runs for multiple years that is really spectacle-driven and focused on creating the 'did-you-see-that' moment that a lot of Hollywood tentpoles try to do was one innovation 'Game of Thrones' did," Mittell adds.
Toys-R-Us going bankrupt is really a spectacle that is hard to ignore.
What the show is really about is spectacle; which, thanks to Brian Thomson's production design and the costumes of Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner, is hurled across in bucketloads.
When the fireworks started, that's when the few became the many, and we could see literally thousands of glowing screens, from every corner of the Bowl, creating low-quality digital recordings of an activity that is really only a spectacle when viewed live.
Spectacle is really important.
Shechter described the work, and the month-long season as whole, as a "spectacle that is really questioning the right and wrong and the good and bad of art".
It helps that the anxious calls of "lie down!" and "away!" are accompanied by the comforting tones of Jim Rosenthal, bringing his commentating A-game to what is really a pretty self-explanatory spectacle.
Maybe that's what we will find out about Tiger this weekend as he rounds Amen Corner and heads for home at The Masters -- that he is really humbled by the public spectacle he has gone through and now wants to be a better father, a better husband and a better role model.
It is really one of the great joyous spectacles of British film.
Claire Denis is amused by this spectacle and sympathetic to it but insists that this is really not her world.
At this stage, the important thing to remember is that there are really two spectacles taking place: a high-stakes horse race for the Republican nomination, and a circus held on the infield of the track.
