Reddit reviews The Revolution Was Televised: How The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Lost, and Other Groundbreaking Dramas Changed TV Forever
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Alan Sepinwall wrote a whole book on this called 'The Revolution Was Televised' featuring The Sopranos, LOST, Breaking Bad, Mad Men etc. Great read from the best TV critic in the business.
Oz is fine...and a lot of people don't give it enough credit. Tom Fontana was given the greenlight by HBO to make a show about basically anything he wanted without censorship. It was like a pet project for the network. Pretty much anything went. It was unprecedented in its brutality and grittiness. Oz is what gave interest in people like Chase and Simon to work with HBO, knowing that they could have so much creative freedom. It was revolutionary. People like to say there would be no Breaking Bad, Mad Men, etc. without The Sopranos, which is true, but there also would have been no Sopranos without Oz. If anyone really wants to learn more about how Oz changed television, you should check out Alan Sepinwall's book.
The show was really great until that mid-season change in four (I think) when a major character died. Then some of the ludicrous storylines came in, like the anti-aging (which Fontana has apologized for since and they obviously got rid of it quickly on the show) bit and those immigrants staying in Oz. I'm not saying the show went to absolute shit (hell, a scene in the final season tore me up), but there is a definite and obvious decline in quality there. Probably one of the worst changes is how frequently people died in the later seasons....do you remember the guy that died in the first episode of season 1? It was a massive deal and there was a huge investigation. Toward the end of the show, people were dropping like flies and no one even cared. It was never super realistic, but it definitely lost a ton of its realism in the later seasons.
However, a lot of the social commentary is still relevant today. Not to mention, the characters were great. The actors were great. Alexa Fogel was the casting director, and she also cast The Wire, so there are a ton of the same actors. The dialogue was sharp and I loved the way they portrayed the religious figures, like Sister Peter Marie, Kareem Saïd, and Father Mukada. For such a nihilistic show, they could have easily have made religion out to be a complete joke, but the religious characters on the show were actually very intelligent which I think contributed it to making it a very clever show.
Not to mention, Schillinger is one of tv's most terrifying and evil villains ever. J.K. Simmons is awesome.
If you get a chance, check out The Revolution Was Televised, such a fantastic book on how the shows came about
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Great book by Alan Sepinwall about the shows (several already mentioned in this thread) of the last decade and a half transforming TV. An educated look at your favorites, and perhaps an introduction to a couple that you haven’t watched yet.
The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever
Alan Sepinwall wrote a book, basically an outline of the "Golden Age of TV Dramas", and Friday Night Lights was one of the 11 featured shows.
Great book, beeteedubs. The Revolution was Televised
It's not about sitcoms, but Alan Sepinwall's The Revolution Was Televised is a fantastic look at the dramas of the last twenty years or so, and features interviews with the creators and others involved with the shows. Great behind-the-scenes information, and also an interesting look at how TV has changed.
And if you like oral histories, Live From New York is an amazing one all about Saturday Night Live.
It's not a video documentary but Sepinwalls' book is pretty known and respected:
> Alan Sepinwall: The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever
>https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1476739676/
I recommend reading The Revolution Was Televised by Alan Sepinwall.
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Lloyd Braun was not hired back. He was ousted and he stayed gone.
If you're interested in the way TV shows have changed and been revolutionized, I recommend the book The Revolution Was Televised by Alan Sepinwall. One of the chapters is about Lost.