The Sopranos: A New Form of Narrative Art

The broad middle brow of narrative art was going to collapse around stuff that you watch at home. And then we were going to have our engagement with it happen in public and our social media, which is filling the role of actually being and interacting with other human beings. That slot got filled by a show and that show changed over time. It's ability to fill the role of the show smart people talk about was impressive but then it starts to fucking fall.