>>62228509Daily reminder that Breaking Bad is absolute garbage compared to The Sopranos. There's more depth in the average Sopranos episode than there is in the entirety of Breaking Bad. There's a more nuance and emotion in Gandolfini's eyes than there are in Cranston's forced facial expressions. Breaking Bad, LOST, True Detective, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Fargo etc. are all flavour of the month, entertainment-core, shallow trash under the guise of 'prestige drama'. The low standards of the average TV stan is truly shocking as to how they can enjoy these embarrassments to narrative complexity. It is perhaps a miracle as to how something so genuine and artful like The Sopranos can be made in such a commercial medium, the deep depression of David Chase to make a deconstruction of the mafia and American life into high art and perhaps the greatest character study of any visual medium. The toxicity of the so called ""golden age of dramas" and the idea that TV is surpassing film is an utter joke. It's painfully ironic that the only American tv show that can truly be called art was made by someone one despised television itself and wanted his series to be looked at by the audience the very same way he looked at European arthouse cinema.
