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'The Sopranos' Creator Says Prestige Television Is Dead, Reveals He's Been Asked To "Dumb Down" Recent Projects

boundingintocomics.com 'The Sopranos' Creator Says Prestige Television Is Dead, Reveals He's Been Asked To "Dumb Down" Recent Projects

'The Sopranos' creator David Chase is of the opinion that the era of 'prestige television' is long behind us.

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Chase must not have seen the season of Fargo that just ended, it kicked ass and was not dumbed down.

Perhaps he should tell them that he will make the show good and ignore their advice.
- Man I keep hearing this about the latest season, very excited to watch it
  
  Bah. It's on appleTV.
  
  I was using apple TV until their absolute disdain for non-apple plebes made the UI punitive on regular browsers.
  
  And actually cancelling my account when I don't have a fruit phone for all the in-tribe auth voodoo was a struggle that took me a few tries and a Google search or two to get done. And me a Linux nerd on a site maintained at a company pitching itself as the Pinnacle in usability.
  
  So I can't go back. It makes my brain hurt and then I curse and grouse too much and my wife will remember she's way outta my league and divorce me as she should. Pity only goes so far!
  
  I can't have that. So no Fargo for me.
- I was about to bring up Fargo as my example of a show kicking ass. I'm halfway through the last season.
I would love to delve deep into a complex and arching storyline of multiple characters, and the reason I don't give a fuck about TV anymore is that you invest in a season or two of a great franchise and then it gets canceled with no notice, often leaving a cliffhanger that would have clearly been explored or explained in the next season, so fuck it, I don't even watch TV anymore.
- I tend to just read through best-of lists and pick shows that I think are interesting off of that, which often times have fully ended. I'm watching through Deadwood now haha, I'm a little late on that one.
  
  The last time something like that has happened to me is with Last Man on Earth.
- That or you get one or two good seasons, followed by the show changing and becoming trash
- Limited series are my go-to now. Sometimes they extend them, but they typically have nothing to do with the previous season, and often suck because it's forced. But all the best shows I can recall watching the last decade or so are limited series. Fargo 1, 2, and now 4, The Night Of, True Detective 1, White Lotus, the Night Manager just to name a few. Most TV shows that run season to season don't have good endings because they don't plan for them to end. They plan to leave loose ends to make you come back, and then when it's cancelled it feels rushed and unfulfilling.
I can kinda see where he’s coming from but I do think they’re some amazing shows in recent times. The market is definitely oversaturated with mediocre to bad shows though
The current generation of the ruling class is so phone and drug addicted they can't think coherently for longer than a few minutes; of course TV, movies, video games, and everything else that "the shareholders" have a hand in is turning into baby-food crap, it's all they can tolerate.
Man with new project says controversial thing. Gets free PR.

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