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Nolte: ‘Sopranos’ Creator David Chase Says TV’s Golden Age Is Dead
Breitbart ^ | 01/15/2024 | John Binder

Posted on 01/15/2024 12:18:18 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Sopranos creator David Chase is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his iconic show’s premier and lamenting the death of television’s exquisite Golden Age.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, the 78-year-old who changed television, but sadly not forever, said, “Yes, this is the 25th anniversary, so of course it’s a celebration. But perhaps we shouldn’t look at it like that. Maybe we should look at it like a funeral.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: chase; entertainment; goldenage; hollywood; silverage; sopranos; tv; wrongtopics; yawn
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To: CodeToad

“I don’t watch a single current TV show.”

I watched “My Three Sons.” Then after that, I watched “Tool Time.” And that was that.

I’m watching a lot of films from the 40s and 50s I haven’t seen before.


21 posted on 01/15/2024 12:37:33 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I am not at all certain that TV ever had a “”Golden Age.” In 1961 FCC Chairman Newton Minow declared TV to be “a vast wasteland.” I have seen nothing to convince me he was wrong.


22 posted on 01/15/2024 12:37:47 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Netflix there are a couple series I want to watch and it is set to cancel. At any rate, they have an abundance of foreign series. I know Netflix available world wide. And the children’s banner is rainbow. Again with this crap. I know someone w


23 posted on 01/15/2024 12:37:59 PM PST by mel (There are only 2 races decent and undecent people )
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To: alternatives?

It is now Soviet Union television.

Hey now, I enjoyed watching 3CP1 - Russian Television

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOu_t68mjNM


24 posted on 01/15/2024 12:38:12 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I also think he's afraid to say diversity.

remember, he wanted to do a prequel to the Sopranos, but it went nowhere. Mainly because they just HAD to put in blacks, and not only that, I am sure they put them on equal footing as the Italians in the story, even though there was never a black mafia that could get out of their own way in the entirety of human history. (I never saw The Many Saints of Newark) And I bet every period piece nowadays set in pre-1990s had to show how racist the society was, as well. It gets to the point where it's not worth doing anything with the restrictions/quotas.

25 posted on 01/15/2024 12:38:58 PM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Can you even do a show like The sopranos these days?

Nope. There's no racial diversity in a show about Italian-American mobsters.

After the Summer of Mostly Peaceful Protests, Hollywood adopted very rigid rules about racial representation. It's very difficult to get a TV show or movie green-lit without a diverse cast.

26 posted on 01/15/2024 12:39:34 PM PST by Gena Bukin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

27 posted on 01/15/2024 12:40:13 PM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I recently watched the full series of the Sopranos for the first time in a couple of decades.

For those who have not seen it I am not going to give away any spoilers.

That said—imho the ending was stunning and brilliant—nothing like it before or since—went way over the head of most of the audience—on multiple levels.

The Sopranos is multi-layered and stunningly complex once you get into the details of it.

There are double meanings to just about everything—hilarious inside jokes—really rewards close concentration.

It was a true work of art.

I would also add that to understand it you need to have a complete understanding of the Godfather movies—many of the scenes are homages to those movies.


28 posted on 01/15/2024 12:41:01 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My four sisters told me I have to watch Yellowstone. A friend did as well

My sisters don’t talk to each other much

So I tried, First then latest
MIT was then worst piece of crap I can remember enduring. Pornography. Hateful immoral characters. No heroes

I don’t think anything else is any good.

We watch reruns of sitcoms over and over. Brooklyn 99 only the early ones

Frasier

Parks and recs

The nanny

The old magnum

The Brits have good programming, all creatures. Why didn’t they ask evans. David suchets Poirot

Blue bloods I watch bc I’m Irish New York and grew up in a big ass house on the water like they have. We were fdny and finance ppl mostly but it’s very familiar

Tge early seasons were great. Some all time greats

They should have brought good recurring extended characters and they should never ever have let Jennifer Esposito go.


29 posted on 01/15/2024 12:41:09 PM PST by stanne
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To: cgbg

The Sopranos was a dark comedy.


30 posted on 01/15/2024 12:41:48 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When the golden age of TV started and stopped is all a matter of opinion.

When love scenes changed from kissing and suggestions of having sex to outright raunchy full nude sex scenes, that would be the end.

When language went from light weight cuss words like crap, turds, etc to F word being used in every other sentence, that’s when the golden age ended.

When TV started pushing leftist political agendas, that’s when the golden age ended.

When homos came out of the closet, that’s when the golden age ended.

When TV commercials became filled with political agendas and now wokeness, that’s when the golden age ended.

When cable TV (HBO & Showtime) went from first run movies right after the theater got them, but before they started producing their own trash, that’s when the golden age ended.

When the mainstream news channels went from occasional little white lies to outright full blown made up stories and other complete lies, that’s when the golden age ended.

I would say the beginning of the end would be the mid to late 90’s. Today the only TV worth watching is what is carefully selected from a streaming service that has no ads that one pays for.


31 posted on 01/15/2024 12:41:49 PM PST by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Golden Age of TV ran from 1955 to 1984. So did Captain Kangaroo. Coincidence? I think NOT!


32 posted on 01/15/2024 12:42:06 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: escapefromboston

I almost agree. It held on with Magnum PI and Miami Vice.


33 posted on 01/15/2024 12:42:42 PM PST by EEGator
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To: CodeToad

Same here. The only show I am currently watching is “Reacher” on Prime.
Probably the last actual TV show I watched was “The Big Bang Theory”

The other great show no one has mentioned was “Breaking Bad”.

At least David Chase realizes it is dead. No young people subscribe to cable TV. They watch everything streaming.

Cable News is also dead. They just do not know it yet. Just like the rest of the MSM that believe they are still relevant.


34 posted on 01/15/2024 12:43:14 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: redfreedom

It ended with media consolidation. You basically have two or three mega-corporations generating all the content, just more channels.


35 posted on 01/15/2024 12:43:18 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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36 posted on 01/15/2024 12:43:26 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Captainpaintball

You are correct about the ma y saints of Newark. There wS an incomprehensible black story line within the soprano story line.

Dollar dvd bin


37 posted on 01/15/2024 12:43:46 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I never watched the show. Never had the desire or interest to watch it.


38 posted on 01/15/2024 12:43:58 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: dfwgator

Still alive at 92?

Wow


39 posted on 01/15/2024 12:44:11 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, y bought, they sold ......)
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To: hinckley buzzard

There are some television series that are true masterworks of art.

The Sopranos is one—others include Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Shield.

They operate at the level of entertainment while having the complexity of classic literature for those who have the knowledge to appreciate all the meaning that is there.

That said—the vast majority of TV is total garbage.


40 posted on 01/15/2024 12:44:51 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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