{"id":18949,"date":"2025-05-28T06:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/sex-up-the-sexting-why-text-messages-are-the-hot-new-boom-area-in-tv-shows\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T06:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:37:44","slug":"sex-up-the-sexting-why-text-messages-are-the-hot-new-boom-area-in-tv-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/sex-up-the-sexting-why-text-messages-are-the-hot-new-boom-area-in-tv-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex up the sexting! Why text messages are the hot new boom area in TV shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

What makes for a believable texting \u2013 or sexting \u2013 exchange? And why has this suddenly become so crucial for a character\u2019s credibility? We meet the teams who agonise over writing lines that only appear on screen for seconds<\/p>\n

In the final episode of Ted Lasso\u2019s second season, Ted sends a text to his ex-wife that reads simply: \u201cKnock, knock.\u201d Nothing too unusual about that you might think, but what is<\/em> strange is that it appears to be the very first message he\u2019s ever sent the mother of his son. Stranger still, she has never previously texted him either. The blank white space above and below their messages reveals that the characters share zero messaging history.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a problem that used to plague TV. Why is the first message Emily in Paris has ever received from her boyfriend: \u201cHey, how is Paris?\u201d When Rebecca accidentally sends a text to her crush instead of her best friend in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, why is their history blank when we saw him text her about a housewarming party a few episodes earlier? In 2021, Wired journalist Zak Jason named a whole litany of shows<\/a> in which characters don\u2019t have text histories \u2013 New Girl, Insecure, The Undoing \u2013 and argued that it was, \u201cinexcusable, and unnerving to witness\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nWhat makes for a believable texting \u2013 or sexting \u2013 exchange? And why has this suddenly become so crucial for a character\u2019s credibility? We meet the teams who agonise over writing lines that only appear on screen for seconds
\nIn the final episode of Ted Lasso\u2019s second season, Ted sends a text to his ex-wife that reads simply: \u201cKnock, knock.\u201d Nothing too unusual about that you might think, but what is strange is that it appears to be the very first message he\u2019s ever sent the mother of his son. Stranger still, she has never previously texted him either. The blank white space above and below their messages reveals that the characters share zero messaging history.
\nIt\u2019s a problem that used to plague TV. Why is the first message Emily in Paris has ever received from her boyfriend: \u201cHey, how is Paris?\u201d When Rebecca accidentally sends a text to her crush instead of her best friend in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, why is their history blank when we saw him text her about a housewarming party a few episodes earlier? In 2021, Wired journalist Zak Jason named a whole litany of shows in which characters don\u2019t have text histories \u2013 New Girl, Insecure, The Undoing \u2013 and argued that it was, \u201cinexcusable, and unnerving to witness\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What makes for a believable texting \u2013 or sexting \u2013 exchange? And why has this suddenly become so crucial for a character\u2019s credibility? We meet the teams who agonise over writing lines that only appear on screen for seconds In the final episode of Ted Lasso\u2019s second season, Ted sends a text to his ex-wife …<\/p>\n

Sex up the sexting! Why text messages are the hot new boom area in TV shows<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}