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Read [Alan Sepinwall Book] * The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever Lots here for fans of these shows, less for everyone else. Edition I received had a different cover than pictured. Amazon Customer Sepinwall is a great, and accessible, TV critic whose genuine joy in talking about TV is constantly apparent. It's probably best for folks who have already watched and loved many of the shows he discussing to really reinforce those feelings - if you're looking to be talked into going back and watching these shows you missed, it may be disappointing, as it doesn't see
| Title | : | The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.72 (964 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476739676 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
It also stands as a spirited and insightful cultural history." -The New York Times"So when I picked up Alan's terrific new self-published book, The Revolution Was Televised --by which I mean, when I downloaded it onto my phone and scrolled nonstop for two days--I knew it would be good. "Mr. But then he stitches the narrative together with insights that will make you see anew just how a Friday Night Lights or Buffy season truly worked, while tossing off the kind of dead-on descriptions that make his blog a blast to read." -Time. In Revolution, though, he admirably often stands back and lets his subjects' words speak for themselves. Sepinwall's book, which was self-published, has all the immediacy and attention to detail that has won his blog so many followers (including this one). And it is: the book is a smart and substantive walk through the past fifteen years of television drama, making a lucid case for the auteurist mentality among modern s
Focusing on twelve innovative television dramas that changed the medium and the culture at large forever, including The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad, Sepinwall weaves his trademark incisive criticism with highly entertaining reporting about the real-life characters and conflicts behind the scenes.Drawing on interviews with writers David Chase, David Simon, David Milch, Joel Surnow and Howard Gordon, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, and Vince Gilligan, among others, along with the network executives responsible for green-lighting these groundbreaking shows, The Revolution Was Televised is the story of a new golden age in TV
Lots here for fans of these shows, less for everyone else. Edition I received had a different cover than pictured. Amazon Customer Sepinwall is a great, and accessible, TV critic whose genuine joy in talking about TV is constantly apparent. It's probably best for folks who have already watched and loved many of the shows he discussing to really reinforce those feelings - if you're looking to be talked into going back and watching these shows you missed, it may be disappointing, as it doesn't seem you are his primary target audience. But he's a real pleasure to read, and it's a great peek behind the curtain into the making of. Alison Law said long-form brilliance. I've been reading Sepinwall (on a last-name basis) since his newspaper days. It helps to have seen all of the shows that get chapter-long dissertations. There are some great stories about how the shows were created, and the casting might have beens are fascinating. It's a breezy read.. "required reading for tv buffs and storytellers" according to Michael Hatmaker. This book is both extremely informative AND entertaining. If you have enjoyed The Sopranos or Breaking Bad or Mad Men or The Wire (to name a few), you should check out this book: Each of those shows gets its own chapter.
. Formerly a TV critic for the Newark Star-Ledger (Tony Soprano's hometown paper), he currently writes the popular blog What’s Alan Watching? on HitFix. Alan Sepinwall has been writing about television for close to twenty years. Sepinwall's episode-by-episode approach to reviewing his favorite TV shows, "changed the
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