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Why Is the Golden Age of TV So Dark?
Brett Martin has always been a magazine writer, not a TV critic. But after writing a behind-the-scenes companion to The Sopranos for HBO in 2007, he felt sure that something profound was happening in the world of television: Since the late 1990s, a wave of hour-long dramas had been scrapping the rules of traditional TV by introducing complicated characters and raising the quality--in terms of production, writing, and visuals--to a cinematic level.
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With much higher budgets, tv shows can do a lot more such as hiring good writers, good actors, good filming locations/props etc.