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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: Chickensoup

I really stopped watching TV because I can’t take the pandering, indoctrination, and mind control. And the commercials...they ENRAGE me.


61 posted on 01/15/2024 1:17:21 PM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: escapefromboston

The Cody Coyote was actually a modified Manta Montage, a kit car replica of the McLaren M6GT, but based on the humble VW Beetle. Bruce McLaren had big plans for original M6GT, plans that came to a halt with his untimely death in 1970. But thanks to Manta, this classic shape did not go quietly into the night.Aug 3, 2011


62 posted on 01/15/2024 1:17:28 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Red Badger
The Golden age of Television died when he died....


63 posted on 01/15/2024 1:18:17 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: nickcarraway

Well whatever it is it’s never ended because you can still find I Love Lucy broadcast or streamed somewhere every day. Lol.


64 posted on 01/15/2024 1:18:30 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Gena Bukin
Correct. Think on how The Sopranos portrayed Vito.

 

Never happen today.

65 posted on 01/15/2024 1:23:58 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

From a business/industry standpoint, the golden age of television ended when cable TV was introduced and the Big Three networks no longer monopolized the broadcasting world.


66 posted on 01/15/2024 1:24:58 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: cgbg

And wasn’t the ending spectacular?

Lots of people didn’t like it. But then lots of people don’t like to think and use their creative imaginations.


67 posted on 01/15/2024 1:25:35 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Ouderkirk

Netflix has different licensing deals in different countries. I’d also guess the fine print of our subscriptions say they aren’t valid in other countries. As the other poster said, you probably need a VPN connected to a US server with a Us account to stream it.


68 posted on 01/15/2024 1:28:08 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ve watched a lot of great shows on Prime/Netflix/PBS/Britbox and Apple+.

Wile there is a LOT of garbage, careful selection is highly rewarding.

There is no shortage of jewels.


69 posted on 01/15/2024 1:38:02 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Just some thoughts about the ending—won’t be a spoiler to those who have not seen it.

I would argue it was a throwback to H.G. Wells radio show “The War of the Worlds”.

In those days folks panicked and called the police because they thought there was a real alien invasion happening (in New Jersey no less :-)).

For those who don’t remember the ending of the Sopranos had folks on the phone calling their cable TV companies...

I would argue Chase knew that would happen—did it on purpose—an homage to “War of the Worlds”.

Again my opinion—but the multi-dimensionality was part of the key to understanding the Sopranos.

The ending breaks out of one dimension—into another one—and took many viewers there—literally.

The hints are when Tony’s identity is stolen in the long dream many episodes earlier...

Great stuff.


70 posted on 01/15/2024 1:39:28 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: mass55th

“Somehow I doubt every TV show in Russia features homos and lesbians kissing and having sex like this country does.”

I am sure their TV shows told of the wisdom and heroism of the Soviet leaders and about the corruption of the businessmen and the West.


71 posted on 01/15/2024 1:39:58 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: alternatives?

You must have seen this.

The Fall Of Berlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-hZam8dXHU

It was so over the top in Stalin Worship, that Nikita Khrushchev even mentioned it in his Secret Speech denouncing Stalin.


72 posted on 01/15/2024 1:42:04 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The golden age of tv died in 1966 when they cancelled My Mother The Car.
73 posted on 01/15/2024 1:43:00 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Captainpaintball

I watch old britbox and older videos. Some Scandinavian and Asian films.

I assume that nothing else is good. There is no more common culture. I read. I do not participate.

There is nothing that is not dangerous to me like complacency with a culture that asks whether I know about the latest.

All gone.


74 posted on 01/15/2024 1:43:59 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: Dilbert San Diego

That was much more a reference to the dramatic shows like Playhouse 90 and the Kraft Television Theater than to the sitcoms.

Cable shows like the Sopranos, the Wire, Breaking Bad,Game of Thrones, and the Crown launched a second golden age. but that’s ending now.


75 posted on 01/15/2024 1:44:17 PM PST by x
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To: qaz123

The 2nd Top Gun was good precisely because there was no woke bs in it.


76 posted on 01/15/2024 1:44:22 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It died when they stopped showing people smoking.


77 posted on 01/15/2024 2:10:28 PM PST by fruser1
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Coy and Vance had more talent than every HBO tv “actor” combined


78 posted on 01/15/2024 2:10:39 PM PST by Early2Rise
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well check out the big brain on that guy...


79 posted on 01/15/2024 2:11:15 PM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: KC_Conspirator

But it was the same exact story line, just the call signs were changed.


80 posted on 01/15/2024 2:19:56 PM PST by qaz123
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