The Revolution Was Televised, Alan Sepinwall
The Revolution Was Televised, Alan Sepinwall
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The Revolution Was Televised
The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever

Author: Alan Sepinwall

Narrator: Joe Ochman

Unabridged: 11 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/21/2013


Synopsis

A mob boss in therapy. An experimental, violent prison unit. The death of an American city, as seen through a complex police investigation. A lawless frontier town trying to talk its way into the United States. A corrupt cop who rules his precinct like a warlord. The survivors of a plane crash trying to make sense of their disturbing new island home. A high school girl by day, monster fighter by night. A spy who never sleeps. A space odyssey inspired by 9/11. An embattled high school football coach. A polished ad exec with a secret. A chemistry teacher turned drug lord.

These are the subjects of 12 shows that started a revolution in TV drama: The Sopranos. Oz. The Wire. Deadwood. The Shield. Lost. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 24. Battlestar Galactica. Friday Night Lights. Mad Men. Breaking Bad. These 12 shows, and the many more they made possible, ushered in a new golden age of television, one that made people take the medium more seriously than ever before. Alan Sepinwall became a TV critic right before this creative revolution began, was there to chronicle this incredible moment in pop culture history, and along the way changed the nature of television criticism, according to Slate.

The Revolution Was Televised is the story of these 12 shows, as told by Sepinwall and the people who made them, including David Chase, David Simon, David Milch, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, Vince Gilligan and more.

About The Author

Alan Sepinwall has been writing about television for close to 20 years, first as an online reviewer of NYPD Blue, then as a TV critic for The Star-Ledger (Tony Soprano's hometown paper), now as author of the popular blog What's Alan Watching? on HitFix.com. Sepinwall's episode-by-episode approach to reviewing his favorite TV shows "changed the nature of television criticism," according to Slate, which called him "the acknowledged king of the form."


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on September 14, 2016

Last week I was reading the chapter about The Sopranos in which the author highly praises James Gandolfini’s performance as Tony. Galdolfini died the next day. That’s one of those odd coincidences that I could live without. TV critic Alan Sepinwall writes the popular HitFix blog What's Alan Watching?......more

Goodreads review by mark on August 03, 2016

in his prologue, Sepinwall discusses antecedents to the more modern shows that have created the most recent Golden Age of Television - the third or fourth such age, I think. the author points out how the foundation for such things as the season-long storyline, dark and ambiguous characterization, cr......more

Goodreads review by Doug on December 31, 2012

Two of my favorite online writers and podcasters are Linda Holmes and Bill Simmons, so when both endorsed Sepinwall's new book, I knew I needed to read it. I've watched exactly half of the 12 shows that he surveys in this excellent book, so it was an exercise in both reviewing familiar territory and......more

Goodreads review by Bruna on August 19, 2021

4.5 Muito bom. Quem ama cultura pop, tem que ler.......more

Goodreads review by Sistermagpie on December 20, 2012

I love reading (and writing) about good television, and thoroughly enjoyed Alan Sepinwall's doing the same. One of the best things I can say about these essays--one for each show he focuses on--is that I wanted pretty much all of them to be longer. I learned a lot about how each show came to be on a......more