Alternative Fun Facts: The TV of Tomorrow

The future staring back at you from your TV screen has never looked better | Fiction | Fresh Soup

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Forget about artificial intelligence that draws any image you can imagine. Forget about some newer, even more advanced AI that will turn your shallowest musings into an incisive, well-reasoned essay. Comparing either of those to TMTV™ (Tailor-Made TV) is about the same as comparing a rusty scooter to a gleaming Tesla. TMTV™ users can ask the app to instantly produce a one-of-a-kind series that accurately delivers every one of their wishes. All you have to do is type in, say, “14-episode dark thriller filmed in Iceland with dramatic action scenes but not too much violence starring Brad Pitt as a police officer and my college boyfriend as a serial killer who wants to eradicate joy from the world and eventually falls into an active volcano and plunges to his death,” and within seconds, the entire first season appears on your screen—and on no one else’s. And not just that, but every single episode is perfect: the pacing you love, the gory suspense, the soundtrack lifted straight from your playlist. So is it any wonder that TMTV™ became an overnight sensation? What kind of idiot would settle for the most-watched Netflix series, when instead she could binge on a completely new show, fresh from the oven, made with one single purpose: to make her, the viewer, the happiest customer in the universe!