[laverne] it would take a revolution for someone like me to have a career as an actor, and the revolution is netflix. you re right. [man] there s a new player in the original content game. uh, is this a bad time? [man] this flood of actors, writers, ideas just gushing into tv. i don t have time to explain lesbian shit to you. the people who are gonna change the narrative out there is us. [woman] there s an avalanche of new streaming services. word of the year? binge-watch. when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. this is gonna be so fun! [theme music] [david] television used to be, here s what we re showing you, and here s your only chance to see it. [james] when there were fewer tv options, there wasn t as much room for experimentation and the creativity that we ve seen an explosion of. [lorraine] coming into 2010, hbo is like the king of the prestige drama. to those beautiful, ignorant bastards. [cheering] when scorsese does boardwalk empire, it just speaks
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you want to invite me in? you ever find yourself complaining that there are too many really good shows on tv? i feel that needs to be celebrated. a new era in television. you are so lucky! broadcast and cable networks face a growing competitor, online programming. it would take a revolution for someone like me to have a career as an actor and a revolution that s you re right. there s a new player in the original content game. is it that time? this flood of actors and writers and ideas just gushing into tv. i don t have time to explain it to you. the people who are going to change the narrative out there is us. there s an avalanche of new streaming services. word of the year, binge watch. when you play the game of thrones you win or you die. this is going to be so fun. television used to be here s what we re showing you and here s your only chance to see it. when there were fewer tv options there wasn t as much room for experimentati
that mike schur magic not only get away with it, excelled with it. nine-nine! [all] nine-nine! [daniel] but it became more and more difficult with every passing season because we were supposed to find their bumbling loveable as the bumbling of actual cops became more and more disturbing and terrifying. i promise you, we are gonna get you justice. yeah.we ll see. i think that at a certain point, mike schur did realize that grounding these optimistic stories in our actual world was becoming more and more complicated. oh, look at this! we added a tenth dimension. [zap] [gasping, exclaiming] [daniel] and suddenly the good place is a show where its connection to the real world is very, very limited. the good place is a comedy set in the afterlife. kristen bell plays this awful person who gets into heaven. your life on earth has ended, and you are now in the next phase of your existence in the universe.
parks and rec gets a revamp. they go from cringe to a kind of wide-eyed optimism. and when they change, that show takes flight. giddyap! giddyap! [laughs] they found a way to make leslie knope aspirational. mike schur is an optimist. he believes that if you get good people together, sometimes you can get good results. mike schur followed parks and recreation up with brooklyn nine-nine, which, in its own way, is perhaps even more challenging, because you re attempting to do an optimistic show about how the nypd blue operates. captain, hey! welcome to the murder. what are you doing here? [melaine] if you look at the throughline of what mike schur does, he creates this workplace family. brooklyn nine-nine was able to get away with that mike schur magic not only get away with it, excelled with it. nine-nine! [all] nine-nine! [daniel] but it became more and more difficult with every passing season