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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few years ago l worked with someone who said she didn't watch TV. She mentioned it often and acted almost like she was afraid of TV. Her husband traveled and she had no kids so she went to the movies several times a week. She would see anything, good or bad and talk about them, sometimes things I couldn't imagine wasting time or money on. One time in a group we got talking about good TV shows like the Sopranos and Mad Men and i said she would like them but she reminded me, oh, I don't watch TV. I remember thinking how stupid this distinction was because these shows were a lot better than a lot of movies. It also turned out that she did have a TV and watched DVD movies with her husband.

Another person I knew that made it her personality to not own a TV reads a lot books. Seeing her titles on Goodreads, she reads mostly junk. Why is it better to read the 100th version of a predictable romance than its counterpart on the Hallmark Channel?[/quote]

Yeah, that's a very 20th century attitude, that TV is always inferior to "film." Now there is so much "prestige" TV that doesn't even have to deal with stuff like commercial breaks, strict time limits or structural constraints, or standards & practices limitations on content and language, that it's hard to argue that TV is even the more regulated art form.

But there's also been a reassess on the TV that was produced under those tight constraints, and people are retroactively appreciating the artistic merit of television shows that managed to achieve high levels of quality even while dealing with all of those constraints.

Anyway, people who think something in a movie theater is automatically better than something released on TV or streaming just sound dumb now. I mean with streaming, the only difference between television and movies is often length or whether or not it's episodic. Well guess what, a lot of great literature was originally episodic (Dickens, anyone?). People who think this way just sound stupid now.[/quote]

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