(Jul 11, 2013) Brett Martin has always been a magazine writer, not a TV critic. But after writing a behind-the-scenes companion to The Sopranos for HBO in 2007, he felt sure that something profound was happening in the world of television: Since the late 1990s, a wave of hour-long dramas had been scrapping the rules of traditional TV by introducing complicated characters and raising the quality–in terms of production, writing, and visuals–to a cinematic level.
In his new book, Difficult Men, Martin calls this era the “Third Golden Age” of TV (following its early days in the ’50s and the birth of network dramas in the ’80s).
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