Seriality and transition experience in adulthood: a study on edutainment of Serials

The diffusion of entertainment platforms (i.e. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney +, etc.) represents a field of investigation of great interest. What are the reasons for the Serials success? On what strategies are Serials developed? What forms of learning do they generate and what forms do their educational processes take? The essay tries to focus on the concept of Edutainment, broadening the attention to the aspects of Embedded Education and Indirect Education in Adult Education. To do this we administered a questionnaire to a thousand members of some fandom groups of a well-known Serial (This is us), trying to gather their level of agreement or disagreement with respect to crucial and critical issues related to parenting, adoption and bereavement processing. These themes were chosen because they describe vital transitions that can be positive or negative. From the data emerged the importance of the concept of Seriality and its value for the formation of positive transition competences. At the same time this concept could be used to design training pathways for adults to foster positive transition processes based on problem-solving.