soprano singer Creator David Chase is celebrating his 25th anniversaryth On the one-year anniversary of his iconic show's premiere, he's lamenting the end of television's great golden age.
in interview with sunday times, the 78-year-old said, changing television but unfortunately not forever. But perhaps we shouldn't see it that way. Maybe we should think of it like a funeral. ”
“It was a moment,” he said. times With a sigh, he mentioned the Golden Age. “This is the first time in 25 years. Just to be clear, I’m not just talking about: the sopranosBut there are many other very talented people out there for whom I feel increasingly sorry. ”
Obviously, he is talking about the many treasures that have come with that success. the sopranos: The Wire, Justified, The Shield, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, Lost, 24, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Longmire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men…
TV: “Where are we going back?” [it] he explained. The streamer “will have commercials.”
Chase is currently trying to sell a show about high-class prostitutes in witness protection. After three drafts and five meetings, they say it's too complicated. “I was told to stop.”
“As humans evolved, we became more addicted to multitasking. A cell phone is just one symptom, but who can really concentrate? Your mother is dying and you? might be sitting by a hospital bed taking a phone call. We seem confused and the audience is not paying attention, so it makes too much sense to grab their attention and force the audience to focus. We can't make what we demand. So what about streaming executives? Things are getting worse. We're going back to where we were.”
Chase believes in the HBO show inheritance It is the last of its kind. “So this is a funeral,” he says. “Something is dying.”
There's no doubt that Chase is right that “something is dying,” and the golden age of television is over. His reasoning, or the reason he is being told, makes no sense at all.
People still watch shows from that golden age.Millions of people watch over and over again soprano singer, mad men, Breaking Bad,Such. Here are some of the most popular streaming shows of 2023: suitleft the air five years ago. suit (2011-2019) hails from that 25-year golden era.I'm not arguing. suit is mad men or wire. Still, from the few episodes I've seen, this seems like a golden age. It's a sophisticated drama filled with complex and flawed characters who deal with complex moral dilemmas.
If viewers and their iPhones were the problem here, these golden age shows wouldn't have remained as popular as they did. The problem is that Hollywood is completely consumed by the cultish, tribal need to produce simple, virtuous left-wing propaganda.
During Christmas my lovely wife and I watched it again wire 4th or 5th time. We're currently in the middle of our third or fourth rewatch. shield. Hollywood doesn't refuse to make such shows just because people won't watch them. This is especially ridiculous in a culture where millions of viewers are segmented into what counts as a hit show.Name a show that's every bit as fascinating and addictive that we're all missing. mad men.
The reason Hollywood refuses to make these shows is because the stories are told without the judgment of the creators. Judgment was left to the beholder. In this fascist age, this is considered a sin. why?because The Sopranos, Mad Menand all the rest did the same: forced us to engage in critical thinking.
Time and time again, these shows demanded your participation by refusing to think for you. Instead, you were presented with charismatic characters you couldn't help but be drawn to, and who you empathized with. You were even impressed by their refusal to conform. But then they got slapped in the face for their extremes and selfishness and asked, “What do you think about Tony Soprano now?”
After viewing wire Again, I still don't know what to think about Omar, McNulty, or the union people from season two desperately trying to protect their world and culture. It's easy to judge some of their actions. But that's not the same as judging a complex human being.
Still, I admire McNulty for not being able to eat shit. I love Omar's fearless personality and adherence to his own standards. I feel sorry for their union members because our pathetic ruling elite is selling them out. Most of all, in this age of fascist political correctness, I greatly enjoy their unfiltered talk.
It's endless fun to turn Tony Soprano, Walter White, Jack Bauer, and Vic Mackey upside down. They are a modern-day Charles Foster Kane and Hamlet, and that's what makes them timeless.
As far as what we see on TV today, that's no longer a big deal (I discovered) inheritance Overrated), that fun is gone. Critical thinking has disappeared. We are told what to think. We are told what to feel. This character is a bad guy because he misgendered someone. This character is virtuous because she wears a dress. This thinking is done for us and it is intentional. So what if it's self-righteous, boring, forgetful, and unsuccessful? Critical thinking is a threat to the left and must be eliminated.
And that was the end of the Golden Age.
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