Since the creative and business sides of TV are thoroughly entwined, Biskind examines both, and the interplay between them. Biskind bites off a big chunk of entertainment history, following HBO from its birth into maturity, moving on to the basic cablers like FX and AMC, and ending up with the streamers and their wars, pitting Netflix against Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and the killer pluses-Disney, Apple, Paramount, et al. Instead of focusing on one service, like HBO, Pandora's Box asks, "What did HBO do, besides give us The Sopranos?" The answer: It gave us a revolution. How and why this happened is the subject of this book. We are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called "Peak TV," in which television, in its various guises and formats, has seized the entertainment mantle from movies, and dominates our leisure time. Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of television, sparked by the fall of play-it-safe network TV and the rise of boundary-busting cable followed by streaming, that overturned both-based on exclusive, candid, and colorful interviews with executives, writers, showrunners, directors, and actors.
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