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Trilby and I were talking last night about the differences between television today and 20 years ago. I remember the days before video recording when we had to make sure we were home to watch our favorite programs (“NYPD Blue” for example.) And then the next day, we would talk about the shows we watched the night before.
Television of yesterday seemed to be more of a group experience than it is today. What do you think?
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I’d have to say there is still stuff to talk about, but it’s harder to find. And it’s spread out among groups to talk with. TV is not the collective experience it once was. Good TV has been scattered to the winds of cable station or pay television. I don’t think we’ll ever have the collective water cooler moments like we used to.
I like “Mad Men,” “Dexter,” “The Tutors,” “Breaking Bad.” But these are for my indy friends. And I like “Battlestar Galatica,” “Lost” and “Fringe,” but that’s what I talk to my nerd friends about. Even the water cooler itself has been replaced by Twitter, chat rooms and blogs. And unfortunately, the closest thing you have to a collective-viewing experience is “American Idol.”
I remember rushing home after school to catch sitcoms like Growing Pains, Happy Days, Good Times and Different Strokes. The next day, my friends and I would be talking about every single scene. This even happened right up to the first few seasons of ‘Friends’ (before Monica and Chandler got married) and Seinfeld. We’d be re-telling the jokes in the office and laughing at every wisecrack remark we heard and saw. These days, people blog about it. They post comments on Facebooks groups where common fans gather. And they amass clips of favourite scenes on youtube. So yes, television is still worth talking about. We’re just communicating in a different way today.