Abstract
[Excerpt] A lecturer in film and screen studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, who has previously published on unity and fragmentation in Breaking Bad, Elliott Logan has turned a critical eye toward examining a dilemma common in popular 21st century television series: due to the episodic nature of serial television programming, actors faced with performing scenes in a given episode may not be privy to what will follow later in the season, and thus must make adjustments in their expressiveness. While Logan contends that this conundrum poses difficulties for actors, he also argues for the potential for expressiveness that this mode of story-telling demands. In this manner, he locates nuances in the demands placed upon actors of serial dramas and identifies a recent—and broader—trend toward ambiguity within serialized programs. Such tendencies are subject to analysis in his recently published scholarly monograph, Over and Over: Performance, Time, and Resonance in Serial Television Drama.