#Alan sepinwall deadwood season 3 series#
The book is a series of chapters-12, just enough for an HBO season-each on a different marquee drama of the recent past. In his new book on that period in TV, The Revolution Was Televised, my fellow critic Alan Sepinwall uses a kind of hybrid episodic/serial format to tell that story itself.
#Alan sepinwall deadwood season 3 tv#
By using what makes TV different from the movies, they use the medium to tell stories that go on and on until they end, like life. Others, like The Good Wife, combine discrete hourlong stories with much longer arcs.
Some, like Treme, are essentially extended novels, with not much to mark the beginning and end of an hour other than the titles and the credits. Many dramas still do that (CBS’ cop shows, for instance) but beginning in the late ’90s a string of shows expanded the form–by introducing complex narratives and antiheroes, and by using the structure of series TV to tell much, much longer stories. Going back decades, the standard format, with few exceptions, was to tell distinct, individual stories–police investigations, court cases, &c–that wrapped up in an hour and generally had clear, unambiguous rooting interests. Follow the last fifteen years, the ambitious TV drama has evolved, well, dramatically.
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