work when it was bending a genre. take something that s familiar and give it some chili pepper. advertising is based on one thing, happiness. is there any taboo that you wouldn t break? not if there was a funny idea. what is wrong with you? there s so much different storytelling and so many different stories being told about so many different people. i don t think dramatic series television has ever been stronger. there s no longer this theory of what popular entertainment must be. incoming! who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows. and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. there s so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to
there s no longer this theory of what popular entertainment must be. incoming! who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows. and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. there s so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long time, movies and boxing were the bread and butter of hbo. people watch a show because you re partly a [ bleep ]. i think what we learned through shows like the larry sanders show or oz is that we could do serious television. there s somethin
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so, have you watched the sopranoes? if not hit pause and go watch it and then come back in a couple of weeks and start this again. the first season is 13 episodes long. they obviously it s one of the greatest achievements in american drama. certainly in contention for one of the greatest television shows ever made in any country on any subject. in season 1 you have to get through like half the whole season i think you have to get to the 7th episode or something before you get anything that seems like it is a backstory on your lead character. so, i mean here is a story about a man in therapy, yes he is a gangster but is he a man in therapy. so you think, right from the very start of the very first episode you are going to get, you now, therapy speak. tell me about your childhood but it s not until seven episodes in to it that we finally see tony as a little kid. in that scene here is young tony, his uncle comes looking for his dad. tony s dad hops in a car and takes off wi