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Movies Vs. TV in 2023: What the ‘Succession’ Finale Says About Storytelling Now. Plus: A Pointless ‘Little Mermaid.’

The Big Picture

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The Importance of Prestige TV

Prestige TV is essentially what you're talking about. With the exception, really, of Game of Thrones, like those shows aren't moving the business for TV in the way that they are for it. What's happened is that a group of people who take these things mega seriously and have certain artistic standards began to talk about them on podcasts. That's us started taking television as seriously as we took movies. And a lot like our tastes over and over again moved to TV.

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That is so interesting. Yeah. But here's the thing is that all of this shows and what you're defining as and prestige TV is essentially what you're talking about. And with the exception, really, of Game of Thrones, like those shows aren't moving the business for TV in the way that they are for it. What's happened is that a group of people who take these things mega seriously and have certain artistic standards and like to talk about them on podcasts started take it like and that's us started taking television as seriously as we took movies and in some cases more seriously because the movies are not rewarding that like those standards in the same way. And a lot like our tastes like the center of culture as we say over and over again moved to TV. So I guess it like what the real question is like why are we such sickos that this is all we want to watch and that this is the only definition of good
Speaker 1
to us. I think you're right for the most part that I'm talking about prestige TV. But if you watch Yellowstone and I have sure it has a lot of the same hallmarks. I mean it is a lot of really kind of damaged people. It's using a more traditional like Falcon crest style soap operatic approach. But it's Taylor Sheridan who comes from movie writing who writes anti heroes who writes characters that are deeply flawed. And you know I'm not as big a fan of that show as I am of some of the other shows we mentioned but it has really infected even some of the most mainstream TV storytelling.

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