In the 2010s, a stream of new series turned into an unstoppable flood — but if you can survive it all, there are big rewards. Alan Sepinwall on the decade of Peak TV
Then everyone else followed suit. The arrival of the streamers — Netflix most of all — only exacerbated the issue, as did the way that many of them release entire seasons at once, creating the illusion of TV viewing as competitive sport: “I had to binge all ofcomes out!”
But too much of a good thing still gives you good things, and boy did TV give us a lot of that over the past 10 years. Some were hanging chads from the 2000s, like, both of which debuted late in the previous decade but aired nearly all of their classics in this one. Others were singular achievements like, HBO’s gonzo, emotionally overwhelming meditation on grief and madness in a time when the real world was providing ample opportunity to feel both.
It was a period in which television expanded in some ways and contracted in many others. On the biggest end of the scale,presented epic spectacle that replicated the best of what we expect from summer blockbuster films. Its narrative sloppiness was also reminiscent of those movies, butThrones was a reminder of the increasingly novel concept of shows that everyone watches at the same time, much of the Peak TV landscape was filled with series whose aims, and potential audiences, were far smaller. Often, this translated into memoirlike series inspired by the lives of their auteur stars. The most influential of these — and one of the best at the time, not that anyone will likely want to watch it ever again — was another FX show,, where comedian Louis C.K.
(This weirdly marvelous state of affairs has faded a bit since someone at Netflix woke up one day and realized, “Hey, we can cancel things, too!” Earlier in Peak TV, shows like the Nineties high-school dramedy
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