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Originally posted by Right Now
Not with the past year of so being named the "golden age of television" by many.
Anyway, that's great for Sarah. I'm glad that she remembers where she came from.
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No that's wrong. Many people have said we're now past the golden age of television and on a downward slope. Like, Mad Men and Breaking Bad and Sopranos and Wire are gone; now we have...Game of Thrones and Better Call Saul and The Americans. The highest rated TV on Metacritic this year is a show produced by Ryan Murphy; like...
The median of shows with Metascores last year is in the 60s, and that's not including all the older shows critics stopped reviewing because they don't care about them (which is most shows after S1).
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...-golden-823206
"The only thing that has exploded in television is the bad and the mediocre, as the number of good writers remains the same while demand for shows increases, leading to sophomore slumps as streaming services thin out the talent pool."
http://klintron.com/2016/the-golden-...-already-over/
Etc.
But anyway, of the thousands of shows on TV, it's a minority that are considered actually good.