I will show my age.
I agree. The current landscape of tv, storytelling, enjoyable characters, and screenwriting is virtually extinct to just 10-20 years ago. The result is they appear plain and safe, or uncomparable and not-risky-enough. Even when the current show is popular, award-nominated, long-running, etc. Very little today catches my eye. It’s not just the stories, it is rewriting all the standards as well.
There are still some good shows left but it definitely feels like more of a challenge to find them then before. I haven’t watched regular TV shows in ages because most of it is crap nowadays. The last one I can vividly remember watching whenever it came out was Castle and I even quit watching that after 1 or 2 seasons.
There’s almost no original story telling in shows anymore, it all just feels the same. The only standout shows I can remember watching last year were Blue eye samurai and the Boys. Everything else is just a bit of a blur.
Some may say that House MD wasn’t risky enough, that it was too formulaic and relied on the same kind of “edgy renegade gets the job done on his own terms” cliché that was everywhere in the 00s. Taking shots at people and their personal beliefs can make for witty and engaging dialogue, but just setting up cheap shots so that the Chad House can dunk on the Virgin Nun is just hacky.
I will show my age.
I agree. The current landscape of tv, storytelling, enjoyable characters, and screenwriting is virtually extinct to just 10-20 years ago. The result is they appear plain and safe, or uncomparable and not-risky-enough. Even when the current show is popular, award-nominated, long-running, etc. Very little today catches my eye. It’s not just the stories, it is rewriting all the standards as well.
There are still some good shows left but it definitely feels like more of a challenge to find them then before. I haven’t watched regular TV shows in ages because most of it is crap nowadays. The last one I can vividly remember watching whenever it came out was Castle and I even quit watching that after 1 or 2 seasons.
There’s almost no original story telling in shows anymore, it all just feels the same. The only standout shows I can remember watching last year were Blue eye samurai and the Boys. Everything else is just a bit of a blur.
Some may say that House MD wasn’t risky enough, that it was too formulaic and relied on the same kind of “edgy renegade gets the job done on his own terms” cliché that was everywhere in the 00s. Taking shots at people and their personal beliefs can make for witty and engaging dialogue, but just setting up cheap shots so that the Chad House can dunk on the Virgin Nun is just hacky.