ABSTRACT
This final chapter is an effort to grapple with how questions of spatial capital ultimately resonate within the space of television consumption, as the interplay between production, textuality, distribution, and discourse intersects with viewers who bring their own understandings of spatial capital to their experience watching a particular series. It argues that while television’s compromised and contingent approach to spatial capital has often relied on a presumed localized audience without the reference points to challenge or question a series’ sense of place, social media has broken down geographic boundaries of viewer reaction. Media is often framed as disrupting traditional geographic boundaries, but I argue here that in the case of television’s spatial capital, new forms of communication highlight those boundaries, reframing location as a lens through which viewers respond to television in online forums as a public service to either serve as spatial amplifiers in praise of a series’ sense of place or critique the series in question as spatial arbiters.
