>2006
>Biggest show on television is a dialogue driven character study

Have audiences just become less intelligent in the last 20 years?

>>212857434 (OP)
You think the sopranos is smart television? Anon the entire show is about a family of clowns

Succession and Severance and better written, smarter shows in every way. The Sopranos built the foundation but kino has evolved. The Sopranos walked so current premium TV can run

>>212857622
Don't forget Game of Thrones.

>>212857649
It's hard to when faggots like you won't shut up about it.

>>212857622
>Severance is better written

>>212857622
>>212857649
Succession is the only decent one out of all those you mentioned, and it's not even a top 10 HBO series.

>>212857699
Sopranos has aged horribly. Insufferable outdated psychobabble trash, overused jokes and derivative plot lines every season. Must go really hard if you took philosophy and psychology 101 in community college and havent read a book in a decade

>>212857879
buzzwords buzzwords buzzwords
>go really hard
oh right you're underage

>>212857434 (OP)
>>Biggest show on television is a dialogue driven character study
You've just described HBO MAXX's The Last of Us, what did you have to say about the Sopranos again?

>>212857960
Not an argument. Ironically zoomers love The Sopranos because they're illiterate brown retards

>>212857434 (OP)
Sopranos and other early prestige TV stories were mostly created by people who had worked in conventional TV a long time and knew all the conventions of episodic storytelling, which they could observe or break as they pleased.

The collapse of episodic TV and the Netflix binge model has taken away the type of training that the older writers had, so even in good shows, you can tell they have problems with scene and episode construction.

Basically the old school writers were (on average) better because it's harder to write a good mystery procedural episode than it is to write a season-long movie.

Also The Sopranos and other shows were reacting against conventional TV, now there's nothing to react against, though I suppose Poker Face could be considered a neo-reactionary show or something.

>>212857434 (OP)
>less intelligent
Retarded... The word you're looking for is RETARDED...

>>212857622
FUCK
OFF
BACK
TO
FAGDDIT
YOU
MONGOLOID
FUCK

>>212857479
People always say this but it's always the sort of people where if someone made a show about their family, they'd come off as even more dysfunctional.

>>212857879
>Must go really hard if you took philosophy and psychology 101 in community college and havent read a book in a decade
Lmao get a load of this towering intellectual here. And by intellectual I mean midwit retard with an inferiority complex.

>>212858082
based and truthpilled take

/thread

>>212857479
Sopranos is smart. If you want proof of that, watch some Sopranos reactions. 80% of the jokes go over the average reactor's head. Especially if they're black. It's like they're not even watching the same show the rest of us watched in this sense, because the humor is so important to the show.

>>212858127
The word you're looking for is actually "special needs"

>>212858580
>a black person didnt understand it therefore it's smart
>it was larger than an ant therefore it's huge

>>212857479
It's not that the sopranos is a smart show it's just the average person is just very dumb

>>212858763
It's not JUST the blacks, it seems to be almost everyone. It's just the black ones are even more clueless. Like for instance, the black reactors don't even realize Little Carmine is stupid. Or, playing stupid, if you believe that theory.

>>212857434 (OP)
one of the biggest blockbuster movies in the past decade was a historical biopic about a scientist and his political trial, just because it got marketed alongside an ad for a little girls doll toy, this never fails to make me kek

>>212857622
Kek nice bait

>>212857479
its about dumb people in a smart way

>>212857434 (OP)
Yep. Forced diversity means hiring women and blacks to write shows so simplified that women and blacks can understand them.

>>212859481
Sounds like a profitable strategy honestly, even if it means the death of art

Eyooohhh Paooolie mamma mia gabagoola, this Epstein fella, whaddya know about this jew? I wanna get on this island businesss ehh ehhh see what you can find out ehh Poolie?

>>212859766
You could say the same thing about offering you ass to faggots.

true detective set the ceiling for prestige tv

>>212857879
Unironically filtered
> psychobabble trash
Assuredly went over your head
> overused jokes
Name 5
> derivative plot lines every season
> durrr why do people who complain about their lives but refuse to change keep being confronted with the same problems

>>212860530
>> derivative plot lines every season
Somone getting out of prison and causing troubles for Tony was used on Richie, Feech, Tony B, and Phil. Wasn't exactly used on Ralph but same structure still applies.

>>212857434 (OP)
It resonates with Americans because we're all immigrants who will be reduced to nothing but a skin color in a generation. AJ doesn't give a fuck about his Italian heritage. He's a dumbass trying to ride his dad's mob connections, falls for war propaganda, and realizes he only cares about pussy.

>>212857622
>SUCCESSION AND SEVERANCE ARE BETTER WRITTEN

>>212857434 (OP)
>Biggest show on television
This trash? Nobody watched that shit
>>212858580
This trash is garbage for retards. Only a retard could like it
Sorry to say but you're retarded