"I immediately lit up on the couch. One of my very favorite cocktails to make at home, suddenly making an unexpected appearance in one of the hottest new shows of the year. I paused the stream, my task clear in mind: I had to get up and make myself a black Manhattan as well. How better to commiserate with poor Carol, as she watches the world melt down around her?"
"but for the sake of shorthand, let's call it "mirrored drinking"-the act of wanting to replicate some element of the drinking happening on screen, for the sheer delight of channeling the appropriately same experience as the characters. It works in other ways too, of course-you could certainly spend all day cooking an Italian feast to pair with something like 1996 restaurant dramedy Big Night, but that would take extensive prior planning."
A neon-soaked, color-contrasted bar with an odd cowboy theme and a puzzling Al Capone mural appears in a sci-fi pilot minutes before an alien virus transforms humanity into a hive mind. The protagonist Carol orders a black Manhattan at that bar, prompting an immediate desire in a viewer to replicate the cocktail. The behavior is labeled "mirrored drinking," defined as wanting to recreate on-screen drinking to share the characters' experience. Mirrored drinking offers immediacy and low planning compared with elaborate film-pairing meals, making it an accessible form of audience participation.
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