I apologize for the blogular
negligence. As summer heaves into port, my attention becomes more
critically concerned with family matters and finding/establishing
that coveted balance for one and all. Once that balance is found,
some lengthier blog postings are sure to follow.
Til then, here's the rough material: As
with his ultimate star vehicle, James Gandolfini's passing
has inspired a number of critical spin-offs. The most curious of
meditations is this one, an excerpt from Brett Martin's
Difficult Men: Behind The Scenes of a Creative Revolution:
From “The Sopranos” and “The Wire” to “Mad Men” and
“Breaking Bad” (A).
Ken Tucker reviews the book (very
favourably),
which prompts from him this observation:
“Unlike
film or rock criticism, television criticism has never yielded a
significant body of work—or at least an acknowledged one enshrined
with any permanence in book form. Who have been TV criticism's
Pauline Kaels, its
Andrew Sarrises?”
I
have some thoughts as to why this is so, and why this might soon
change. But I will have to save that for another post in the
(hopefully) not-too-distant future.
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