The Bad Side of Television.
I've talked a lot about the best of television, how it's a more dynamic and interesting medium than film, how The Wire is the greatest piece of dramatic art produced in the last fifty years etc. etc. etc.
So why do so few others see it that way? The sad reality is that so much of TV is so downright despicable that it gives the rest of it a bad name. I'm not going to go on and on about this as everyone can think up their own examples, but i'll simply add a question and a quote:
Can you name a single black character in any of the 10 seasons of Friends? Neither can I.
David Simon famously said ''TV is made to comfort the comfortable and mock the afflicted''.
It's when television creators move past this idea that we start to see amazing work being made, until then I'm not going to bother paying my TV license.
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