A slowly unfolding plot and a complicated anti-hero make the impeachment hearings feel like a prestige drama. Maybe TV hasn't ruined our brains for politics after all.
impeachment drama would look like. Afor expecting the kind of entertainment fix we usually get from “The Bachelor” and “Young Sheldon.” This, after all, is serious stuff.
an ambitious white guy who does bad things but may be no worse than the people around him, and is so much fun to watch that you find yourself sticking around.Yes, it’s true, we’re living in a time of short attention spans and reality-show screaming matches, exploited by a president who measures success through the lens of TV ratings. But these televised hearings also come at a time when television has conditioned viewers to do much more than passively watch.
One answer is to create the kind of rich, immersive series Landgraf’s network has specialized in, from “The Shield” and “Nip/Tuck” in the early aughts to challenging hits like “Sons of Anarchy,” “The Americans” and “American Horror Story.” These shows are kin to HBO’s groundbreaking dramas, from “The Wire” to “Game of Thrones” to “Watchmen;” AMC’s “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad;” ambitious network hits like “Lost.
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