The first happened in the ’50s with anthology dramas and the tube’s rapid adoption. The second happened around the turn of the century, starting in 1999.
Marked by more serious storytelling, the New Golden Age also gave us the antihero. From Bryan Cranston’s Walter White in Breaking Bad and Jon Hamm’s Don Draper in Mad Men, to Michael K. Williams’ Omar Little in The Wire and Laura Linney’s Wendy Byrde in Ozark, audiences could not get enough of a baddie with main-character energy.
View this post on InstagramWith mentions of newer series like Slow Horses, Yellowstone, and The Pitt, the outlet also throws some love to the nostalgic series that raised us. See: My So-Called Life, Angel, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But its entire top five is dedicated to the antihero.
The top spot goes to The Sopranos. Reinventing Sunday nights, creator David Chase’s HBO hit series was must-see TV.
View this post on InstagramThe first cable show ever nominated for Best Drama at the Emmys, per The Hollywood Reporter, it was also the first to win the award. The series would go on to win seven Emmys and the Writers Guild of America’s highest honor for work in television.
That is a massive brag sheet. Another group it was a hit with? Real-life mobsters. According to Mental Floss, the show was so accurate in its misdeeds that the mafia thought producers had an informant on the inside.
In a 2012 interview with Vanity Fair, producer Terence Winter said, "We would hear back that real wiseguys used to think that we had somebody on the inside. They couldn't believe how accurate the show was."
Commenting on the finale’s 10 seconds of silence, Chase said, “I had no idea it would cause that much … of an uproar. What was annoying was how many people wanted to see Tony killed. They wanted to see him go face-down in linguini, you know? That bothered me.”
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