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Was TV ever better than Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Sopranos, etc etc? Every era of TV had its gems, but for every Seinfeld in the 90s there were 1

by nsxwolf 11y ago

Was TV ever better than Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Sopranos, etc etc? Every era of TV had its gems, but for every Seinfeld in the 90s there were 10 "The Nanny"s.

Retric 11y ago
1 of those shows is still on TV. Sopranos ended all the way back in 2007. Anyway, from a business standpoint only having 2 or 3 good shows mean people get out of the habit. Fox fed viewers from Simpsons into American Dad and Family guy, but when most channels are filled with junk people got out of the habit. When The walking Dead has a bad season there is nothing keeping people tuning into AMC. Think filler B TV like Roseanne or Home Improvement the kind of show where the mass of humanity don't just turn them off even if nobody is lining up for a new episode. PS: It's also all the same formulas and if you like it that's great for you. But, we are missing a lot of the off the wall TV like the twilight zone or MST3k.
- ashark 11y ago
  > But, we are missing a lot of the off the wall TV like the twilight zone or MST3k. Black Mirror? Rick and Morty's pretty off the wall. Intense nihilism, interesting sci-fi concepts, "what if" ideas carried far enough that they become horrifying more often than not, et c. I haven't gotten around to True Detective yet (how are people in this thread watching so much TV that they're running out of good content?!?) but I understand it didn't/doesn't exactly follow one of the usual formulas. MST3K-influenced shows are all web-only AFAIK, so it's not "TV" but there's more content of that sort than ever.
  - Retric 11y ago
    The Black Mirror is an interesting case. It's got 7 episodes over 3 years and is exactly the kind of show Netflix wants so there going to produce another 12. Honestly, I think really demonstrates a failing of TV and not a success. Like how firefly got 1/2 a season @ 14 episodes.
berberous 11y ago
The Nanny was not that bad! Not Game of Thrones, but there's a place for those kind of sitcoms.
- nsxwolf 11y ago
  I really wanted to say "Small Wonder", but that ended in 1989.

by nsxwolf 11y ago

Was TV ever better than Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Sopranos, etc etc? Every era of TV had its gems, but for every Seinfeld in the 90s there were 10 "The Nanny"s.

Retric 11y ago

1 of those shows is still on TV. Sopranos ended all the way back in 2007. Anyway, from a business standpoint only having 2 or 3 good shows mean people get out of the habit. Fox fed viewers from Simpsons into American Dad and Family guy, but when most channels are filled with junk people got out of the habit. When The walking Dead has a bad season there is nothing keeping people tuning into AMC. Think filler B TV like Roseanne or Home Improvement the kind of show where the mass of humanity don't just turn them off even if nobody is lining up for a new episode. PS: It's also all the same formulas and if you like it that's great for you. But, we are missing a lot of the off the wall TV like the twilight zone or MST3k.

ashark 11y ago
> But, we are missing a lot of the off the wall TV like the twilight zone or MST3k. Black Mirror? Rick and Morty's pretty off the wall. Intense nihilism, interesting sci-fi concepts, "what if" ideas carried far enough that they become horrifying more often than not, et c. I haven't gotten around to True Detective yet (how are people in this thread watching so much TV that they're running out of good content?!?) but I understand it didn't/doesn't exactly follow one of the usual formulas. MST3K-influenced shows are all web-only AFAIK, so it's not "TV" but there's more content of that sort than ever.
- Retric 11y ago
  The Black Mirror is an interesting case. It's got 7 episodes over 3 years and is exactly the kind of show Netflix wants so there going to produce another 12. Honestly, I think really demonstrates a failing of TV and not a success. Like how firefly got 1/2 a season @ 14 episodes.

berberous 11y ago

The Nanny was not that bad! Not Game of Thrones, but there's a place for those kind of sitcoms.

nsxwolf 11y ago
I really wanted to say "Small Wonder", but that ended in 1989.