Forget the Golden Age: This is the Platinum Age of Television

[bgva]

There's still good stuff out there...it's just with hundreds of cable channels and so many streaming options, you gotta look a little harder for it. Same goes for music. I find Orange is the New Black and House of Cards pretty enjoyable, but there's not too many new shows I'm watching regularly.

I do like that technology has made it so that talented writers and directors can get their content out there without worrying about the Hollywood system. Unfortunately, the Hollywood powers that be still have a tight rein on the mainstream stuff, even online. Still, there's stuff being put out there but lesser-known names that's worth watching.

I think I actually watch the digital subchannels more than anything. I cut the cord nearly four years ago, and don't really miss it.

[James28]

Honestly, I don't believe there is such a thing as a "platinum age" of anything. Platinum is actually worth less than gold, as User:Alan Brady's Hair pointed out.

If anyone believes that all of today's scripted television shows are terrible (without exception), then I think today's music is far worse than those, and should de considered "boring". I tend to get bored with too much of any TV show produced prior to the 1970s. Also, it's the reality shows of today that should never be defended, and they should be considered "boring", also.

[Steve_uk]

I agree with the general consensus about the deterioration of the quality of television and I was wondering if this reflected to some extent how society has moved on(or should we say degenerated) into a hedonistic compartmentalization which has thrown writers facing the changing role of women and ethnic minorities,mainly at the expense and to the detriment of middle class white males,who find it hardest to adjust to the new hierarchy,which if scrutinized is essentially self-appointed and illusory so that everyone save a few at the top have lost out,thereby making scriptwriting an even more difficult vehicle to reflect social change or conceal the malaise within through an attempted escapism,which more often than not backfires.

[SitcomsOffline]

Originally Posted by Steve_uk

I agree with the general consensus about the deterioration of the quality of television and I was wondering if this reflected to some extent how society has moved on(or should we say degenerated) into a hedonistic compartmentalization which has thrown writers facing the changing role of women and ethnic minorities,mainly at the expense and to the detriment of middle class white males,who find it hardest to adjust to the new hierarchy,which if scrutinized is essentially self-appointed and illusory so that everyone save a few at the top have lost out,thereby making scriptwriting an even more difficult vehicle to reflect social change or conceal the malaise within through an attempted escapism,which more often than not backfires.

^^^This has to be the longest run-on sentence I've ever seen...

[Steve_uk]

Originally Posted by SitcomsOffline

^^^This has to be the longest run-on sentence I've ever seen...

Well if I am forced to truncate could I just summarize by saying that a growing uneasiness has pervaded Western society over past decades from which the medium of television has not been immune.