Gus Walz Sobbing With Pride Is the Most Important TV Moment of the Year

Television is at its best when it surprises. That’s what the airing of the Democratic National Convention delivered. It was something unfamiliar and unexpected, though it was named often in the telecasts: joy.

It’s not a novel observation to write that “joy” has become a foreign notion in recent months—years, even. That is especially true when you think of what has become one of the greatest and most consequential byproducts of our 24/7 televised news cycle...