As a straight white male, I have to say that I'm increasingly disinterested in the problems of straight white males as the driving force of my televised entertainment.
A lot of this has crystalized for me over the past few weeks, but it's been a long time coming. Copious words have been written in recent months about how the golden age of television was forged in the fires of "The Sopranos," with the protagonist of that show, Tony, creating space for complex, multifaceted antiheroes to suddenly populate the small screen. And populate the small screen they did, darkening the landscape with multifaceted psychologies that nevertheless stemmed from a central source. To be certain, Tony Soprano wasn't the source itself, but rather the figure that created the creative, critical, and economic conditions for such sagas to proliferate.
But as "Ray Donovan," Showtime's latest hourlong drama, approaches, I find myself longing to...
A lot of this has crystalized for me over the past few weeks, but it's been a long time coming. Copious words have been written in recent months about how the golden age of television was forged in the fires of "The Sopranos," with the protagonist of that show, Tony, creating space for complex, multifaceted antiheroes to suddenly populate the small screen. And populate the small screen they did, darkening the landscape with multifaceted psychologies that nevertheless stemmed from a central source. To be certain, Tony Soprano wasn't the source itself, but rather the figure that created the creative, critical, and economic conditions for such sagas to proliferate.
But as "Ray Donovan," Showtime's latest hourlong drama, approaches, I find myself longing to...
- 6/29/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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