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Originally posted by Nippy'sReceipts
Sex and the City had the same creatively stale 4 female friends story arch every other garden variety dramedy had since the 80s/90s. And I love that show . The Sopranos, the Wire, and Six Feet Under are excellent. I'll give you that. But 10 years ago, ''good tv'' was mainly relegated to HBO. So glad ''family shows'' and ''daytime TV'' are finally a thing of the past.
We're in a new golden age of television, or shall I say dramas, right now. There's actually too much good tv now. You can find top-tier dramas on the Internet, on cable, on HBO or Showtime. It's insane how overflooded the industry is with top-tier scripted shows right now. I don't know what happened. Maybe Netflix really shook things up.
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I still disagree. I named more top-quality tv shows than we have nowadays. There is not the same amount of great shows there used to be anymore and especially none of them have the same kind of high quality. They're good - sometimes even really, really good - but never (or very rarely) actually flawless. Sex and the City was a good show despite its unoriginal premise and you seem to agree, anyway. Whether you want to reduce it to HBO or not is completely irrelevant. You can't just cut shows out of the discussion just because they're all from the same channel.
Netflix is revolutionary but it can hardly compare with that time - especially not now that Amazon came along and has made a better show than it ever created so far.
I can live with a new golden age but not THE golden age.