The golden age reinvented a mass market medium as popular high art. Peak TV represents something of an end of cultural history-599 scripted series in their final uncontroversial form. The good fan holds a TV show to the highest standards they expect nothing less than exactly what they were expecting. Perhaps we would have seen it coming if only there wasn’t too much to see. The writer’s strike seemed to mark a system in collapse, with still no word of what a mass audience who’d streamed their way through a pandemic would do without the countless hours of storytelling its producers could not actually afford. (By the end, they were making so many shows it was almost as if they wanted to get caught!) The diabolical plot, then, was to get away with making the most television. Some victims even remembered to cancel before the close of some introductory period, therefore lost virtually nothing, and in the meantime were treated to Mrs. The perpetrators failed to get their money out. This time, rather than cook up junky mortgage-backed securities, CEOs flooded the market and took humiliating tax write-offs of dramedies featuring Kathryn Hahn-who was pretty good! But a scheme to what end? Apparently, television has committed some kind of white-collar crime. The explainers are out: a consensus is forming around “ streaming’s busted math,” a “ponzi scheme,” even. Or would you prefer a fall from the height of decadence: a climactic season-eight episode of Game of Thrones that certainly sounded poorly plotted though it was so dark it could not be seen. Peak TV ended when that first wave unsubscribed from Netflix-a seventeen-billion-dollar crash in small part caused by there being absolutely nothing to watch on it.
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