This Tuesday, eighth, half a century has passed since the premiere of HBO, the longest-running pay-per-view network in American television, the first television service to be broadcast and distributed over cable, and its untouched leg since the late 1990s. a new (more adult, ambitious) way of understanding serialized fiction. Celebrating its 50th anniversary by remembering a dozen of its most historic series, all available here. hbo maxparent company Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming platform.
‘The Sopranos’ (1999-2007)
David Chase He did not invent television for the elderly, nor was he the first ‘showrunner’ to bet on expansive stories. But things really changed with the premiere of ‘The Sopranos’ on January 10, 1999: The idea of the TV series as a novel was promoted as more than functional entertainment after a bountiful dinner. Among other victories, Chase succeeded in reinventing the symbols of gangster cinema by placing them in an unconventional suburban setting. And he gave us contemporary television’s most important anti-hero: Tony Soprano James Gandolfini with raw vulnerability.
‘The Wire’ (2002-2008)
Another great David linked to HBO, David Simonused his experience as a police reporter to create a drug trafficking ‘thriller’ that is unusually accurate and empathetic to both law enforcement officers and criminals. Each season Baltimore struggles with a crack: the drug plague, the breakup of unions in the port, the school system, a city council on trial, and the crisis of the newspapers. In a way, the story (tragedy) continues in the last movie ‘The City is Ours’.
‘Larry David’ (2000-)
What was originally going to be an hour-long special has ended in a long-running sitcom: the twelfth this summer! season. All logic. Larry DavidThe ‘Seinfeld’ co-creator has invented an endless character with that big semi-fictional version of himself, a neurotic, unloving screenwriter and television producer who can’t fully retire, desperate for examples of everyday rudeness. A man who could ruin his marriage by getting the glass stain on the table: “Do you respect wood?”
‘Six Feet Under’ (2001-2005)
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Another risky but ingenious move from HBO. Nobody likes to talk about death but with his even better series, Field Ball He didn’t mention anything else. It was a lifelong business drama, set only in a quiet place: a funeral home. The dysfunctional Fishers tried to keep the patriarch alive after he died, and they also had interesting personal lives before their own end, which we witnessed in an (‘spoiler’) anthological ending.
‘Deadwood’ (2004-2006)
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In this dark and poetic western, the great screenwriter David MilchA master of language as flowery as it is obscene, he ingeniously thought about the transition of Deadwood (South Dakota) from an illegal settlement to a legitimate city. Like Chase in ‘The Sopranos’, he knew how to wonderfully mix the general plot of each season with great stand-alone episodes. And like Siegel in the movies, he took the violence to another level of influence on television. Its early cancellation was compensated in 2019 with ‘Deadwood: The Movie’.
‘Sex and the City’ (1998-2004)
Almost a quarter of a century after its premiere, it’s still considered just frivolous and unsophisticated just because its heroines love expensive shoes. You only need to watch with minimal attention to discover a dramatic comedy as funny as it is true in terms of exploring gender roles and love-sexual relationships. Although created by Darren’s Starit was Michael Patrick King who developed the proposal and turned it into a powerful and pioneering half-hour ‘dramedy’.
‘Now’ (2018-)
Courtesy of House of the Dragon, HBO’s current flagship is the hilarious tragedy and tragic comedy of Roys, a media dynasty that has entered a process of succession with circular pieces and sudden unexpected explosions. You wanna hate Logan’s kids (Brian Cox), but you can’t quite do that because after all they are victims of a disgusting patriarchy that knows how to reduce them to babbling babies. Pregnancy smiles are chained with ages, both on screen and on the couch.
‘Girls’ (2012-2017)
Almost everyone who watched ‘Tiny Furniture’ was amazed at the director’s ability to create comedy out of everyday space. But no one could have foreseen something as brilliant as the series ‘Girls’ created by him. Lena Dunham For HBO under the auspices of Judd Apatow. A flawed handbook for finding life after college and trying to understand oneself and others in the confusing two millenniums; a mysterious alchemy of humor filled with pain, or an emotional story about the end of friendship, among a thousand other things.
‘Olive Kitteridge’ (2014)
A separate article would deserve the chain’s miniseries (or television movies). Sent to defend at least one, we’ll be left with one not so well known: an exemplary adaptation. Lisa Cholodenko From Elizabeth Strout’s 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘novel in stories’.Frances McDormand) is a math teacher who has a habit of speaking her mind, especially when in front of her husband (Richard Jenkins) or son (Devin Druid as a young man and John Gallagher Jr. as an adult). From his story, Cholodenko constructs a resounding reflection on family, old age, and loss.
‘Game of Thrones’ (2011-2019)
Adaptation of Benioff and Weiss’s ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ saga, George R.R. MartinDespite (or thanks to) the density of the geographical and human map, it connected a diverse audience and contributed towards transforming fantasy into the ‘mainstream’ of our time. Even the television academy overcame his fantaphobia, gifting him a record 32 Emmy nominations (he received a dozen) in his 2019 farewell season. Didn’t she deserve it? This historian liked the ending.
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