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Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age
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“TV has never transcended the soap opera or the sitcom, and every ‘great’ TV show is just polishing up one or the other.” This isn’t a particularly controversial point, but it’s one that often gets covered over in prestige papier mache. The Sopranos isn’t a soap, it’s a ten-hour movie. The Wire isn’t a soap, it’s a Dickens novel. There’s got to be... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Source: The A.V. Club
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The age of prestige TV has buried that influence deep. The blanket denial of the televisuality of these television shows has turned this ancestor into a shameful secret. So much so that, often, when a prestige TV series is perceived as too much, too excessive, (too female), (too queer), it’s criticized for being too soapy.