this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2024
66 points (83.0% liked)

Movies and TV Shows

2114 readers
60 users here now

A community for entertainment industry news and general discussion about movies and TV shows.

Rules:

  1. Be civil.
  2. Please do not link to pirated content.
  3. No spoilers in the title of submissions. And please use spoiler MarkDown in the body of discussions. This is a courtesy to other users.
  4. Comments solely criticizing headlines and/or journalism will be removed for being off-topic.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Djinn@lemm.ee
66
Era of complex and ambitious TV is over, says Sopranos creator (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee
37 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/television/t/761868

David Chase says 25-year golden period was a ‘blip’ and he is being told to ‘dumb down’ productions.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Hmm... Severence, The Expanse, The Boys, Invincible, The Last of Us, Narcos, Narcos Mexico, The Wheel of Time, and Game of Thrones seem to disagree with him. I would mention all the new Star Trek getting made too, but that actually does seem to be getting dumbed down.

[–] beardown@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

All of those shows are dumbed down - except for early season game of thrones, though clearly that show became comically dumbed down by the end to such an extent that it tanked the franchise

[–] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago

Biggest disappointment of my life. I grew up loving star wars and it still has a special place in my heart that only it can fill but if I got to choose between GoT never losing quality or star wars getting fixed I would choose GoT without a second thought. Every star wars trilogy is bad in its own special way but the first 4 seasons of GoT were absolute masterpieces that are forever tainted from the following seasons

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The Expanse covers 5 separate factions, all vying for power, across twice as many storylines. How is that dumbed down?

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Wheel of Time

One of these things is not like the others.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Hehe. Right? It wasn't good. But it's a complex story.

[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

I'd even add Star Wars to that list. Andor and The Mandolorian are pretty complex interwoven stories. Andor alone is some of the best television I've seen since The Sopranos.