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johnnycaseinwonderland posted this
“Television now has taken on the role that movies had, but actually being more challenging, more psychologically astute. Because they’re not trying to wrap storylines up in the framework of [a single show] and instead they’re serializing. That’s what television does best—to present itself in an elongated form. TV is becoming literature. That’s a new page in our sense of what we need from a show.”
The above quote is from a bunch of different folks (including Ron Howard and Brian Cranston) from the interview montage that ends of “Man of the House,” episode two of PBS’ magnificent America in Primetime, a four part documentary series on the history of television. For the life of me, I can’t imagine why anyone who wants to create long form filmic narratives would even try to make movies anymore. TV has far surpassed cinema as the premier medium for storytellers. Being a movie director is super cool and all, but I would argue that being a showrunner has to be the creative pinnacle of the entertainment industry right now. If I didn’t have kids I would quit my job and do nothing but write pilots all day everyday. Hell, I still might…
