![]() ![]() What happened? One answer is what always happens: golden ages never last. We used to say that twenty-first-century TV was like the nineteenth-century novel-instead of staring at the idiot box, we were communing with Dickens or Zola!-but at some point that stopped seeming true. Many streaming services are cutting costs and curbing output while casting around for the broadest possible audience. ![]() When a worthy new series breaks out (“ Reservation Dogs,” “ The Bear”), it feels like an anomaly, and just as many get prematurely cancelled (“A League of Their Own,” “Winning Time”). ![]() When did “prestige TV” jump the shark, or maybe just get chomped up in its jaws? Flip around for something to watch, and you’ll find star-crammed absurdities (“ The Morning Show,” “Only Murders in the Building”), I.P.-brand extensions (“Wednesday,” “Obi-Wan Kenobi”), “Yellowstone” spinoffs, or, under the banner of the once genre-busting HBO, rehashes of better shows (“House of the Dragon,” “And Just Like That . . .”). ![]()
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