The “Shortification” of news is a terrifying idea. The shorter the news becomes the more sensational, stimulating, and terrifying it is expected to be, and the result is an overstimulated, and terrified populous.

Darling Henry is about a classic news anchor on their first five minutes of the 24hr news cycle. (Henry McCance) who’s just trying to be themselves, in spite of the person they are expected to be. who arrives with expectations of their own, and is folded into a template built for modern tik tok news. We get to see the result of “shortification” on a human being.