This article was written by Alex Strachan.
“The medium that has to be all things to all viewers ranged from freak shows to heady idealism.
From The Sopranos’ family values to finding Lost, this was the decade of the post-9/11 serial thriller.
The decade played like an unending horror show at times, but it was also a transformative time for the medium of television.
The ascension of HBO and the quality cable drama, as epitomized by The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood and Six Feet Under, coupled with the post-9/11 ironic sensibility of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, challenged our minds, shook our perceptions and, just as important, touched our hearts.
Broadcast television, a medium that, by definition, has to be all things to all, gave us the freak shows of Temptation Island and The Swan, but it also gave us the heady idealism of The West Wing, the tantalizing mystery of Lost and the youthful optimism of Friday Night Lights.TV
is easy to ridicule, and no program of the past 10 years was ridiculed more often and more ruthlessly than American Idol.”
Read the rest of this article from The Vancouver Sun.
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