“Something is dying.”
But perhaps we shouldnt look at it like that.
Maybe we should look at it like a funeral.
‘The Sopranos’.Will Hart / HBO
“Back then the networks were in an artistic pit.
A sh–hole,” Chase recalled.
“The process was repulsive.
In meetings these people would always ask to take out the one thing that made an episode worth doing.
I should have quit.”
Chase said they’ve been told the “unfortunate truth” that their treatment is too complicated.
He continued, “Who is this all really for?
I guess the stockholders?”
Chase also blames “multitasking” and the universal addiction to smartphones.
“So it is a funeral,” Chase concluded.
“Something is dying.”
Chase has a point.
Otherwise, why would movie stars be flocking to the small screen in droves?
So maybe the golden age of televisionisdead.
But at least we haveThe Gilded Age.
And thank god for that and, as usual forChristine Baranski.
