EP 05 · Transmission

We Are the Watched

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Cable counted you with a meter and told you when with a grid. The feed does both now, and never says which — and somewhere along the way, we started opening the door for it ourselves. Behind the wire and through the wire. The frequency is rare-user.com.

Your life is your motion picture. And we're all watching.
— Gee

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The episode · 6 segments

Photograph for segment 1 of We Are the Watched — Seg 01 · Carrier · The phone looking back
But one thing was never expected — the phone looking back.

Photograph for segment 2 of We Are the Watched — Seg 02 · The role · The meter and the grid
A meter that counted you. A grid that told you when to show up.

Photograph for segment 3 of We Are the Watched — Seg 03 · The signal · Watched so we could be fed
We've wired the world. It's constant.

Photograph for segment 4 of We Are the Watched — Seg 04 · The wire knows
Home. Work. The commute. Entertainment. There's no room left that isn't wired.

Photograph for segment 5 of We Are the Watched — Seg 05 · The turn · What's the meter
We were the Watched. We became the Program. Now it does both, and it never says which.

Photograph for segment 6 of We Are the Watched — Seg 06 · Station ID
Nobody sends a vampire after your grocery list. They come for the music.

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