Alan Sepinwall, who started as a television critic as an intern at The Star-Ledger, in New Jersey, in 1996, describes the shows that changed the way television was written, produced, and watched starting in the late 1990s. Shows like Hill Street Blues, and St. Elsewhere made big changes in the way television was written and staged, but in the years that followed Homicide, Life on the Streets, and NYPD Blue shook things up even more. This book focuses more on the shows that followed: Oz, The Sopranos, Wired, Battlestar Galactica, and anything created by Joss Wheedon all get their due.
For a book about TV shows, it was pretty good. For shows I liked, such as Deadwood, The Shield, and some named above, I found the book very compelling. The chapters about shows I could never quite get into, like Oz, and Friday Night Lights, didn't quite hold my attention. Go figure. I was surprised to find that this book, which is well-edited, and cleanly written, which had received solid reviews in several media outlets, had been self-published. Good job.
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