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Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad

de Brett Martin

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"In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the landscape of television began an unprecedented transformation. While the networks continued to chase the lowest common denominator, a wave of new shows, first on premium cable channels like HBO and then basic cable networks like FX and AMC, dramatically stretched television's narrative inventiveness, emotional resonance, and artistic ambition. No longer necessarily concerned with creating always-likable characters, plots that wrapped up neatly every episode, or subjects that were deemed safe and appropriate, shows such as The Wire, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Deadwood, The Shield, and more tackled issues of life and death, love and sexuality, addiction, race, violence, and existential boredom. This revolution happened at the hands of a new breed of auteur: the all-powerful writer-show runner. These were men nearly as complicated, idiosyncratic, and "difficult" as the conflicted protagonists that defined the genre."--… (mais)
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If you wanted a book that epitomises unoriginal, lazy, MFA’d writing this is that book. It starts with an interesting snippet about the filming of 'The Sopranos' and you can almost hear Martin’s writing teacher saying to him. ‘brilliant Brett, now that’s what we call the hook…’ and then after two pages Martin’s dull, uninteresting prose with insights that could almost certainly be bettered by any viewer remorselessly follows. If you want his thesis, then look no further than the title. Who knew that HBO and AMC et al thought they might have found a formula? The real achievement is that he somehow manages to make a book out of it - 303 pages in fact. It may be that this book is one of the ‘smartest’ ever written about American TV as David Thomson (no less) gushes on the cover. What an indictment of that genre if so. ( )
  djh_1962 | Jan 7, 2024 |
I’ve had a hard time reading recently, but i blew through this in less than 24 hours. Gripping
  Adamantium | Aug 21, 2022 |
It's cool to see a narrative to all these hour-long, violent, addictive tv shows and to get some back story on them. The book seems to be written for film-makers though, makes a lot of obscure references, and the author seems to love himself a little much. ( )
  mitchtroutman | Jun 14, 2020 |
BREAKING BAD FANS: This 300 page book has like, only 10 pages devoted to Breaking Bad. I know! Dammit, it has Walter White on the cover, but really it is about The Sopranos.

SOPRANOS FANS: read this book! This book is for you!

The 10 pages on Vince Gillian and the Breaking Bad writing team were very good. I just wish there was more of it! Ah, my crushing disappointment. ( )
  Joanna.Oyzon | Apr 17, 2018 |
When I opened Difficult Men and found a gorgeous, graphic timeline of cable shows layered over one other and broken down by season, I gasped and nearly threw my other books across the room. Brett Martin had found his target audience. I don't watch a single show on network TV, nor do I watch comedies. Yes, I'm willing to admit that I'm a boring, typical product of my generation.

And my generation is one that grew up watching, what Martin calls, the Third Golden Age of television. Starting in the mid-1990's, with shows like Oz and The Sopranos, the TV drama began to shift in a radical way. Rather than the safe, self-contained storylines of network shows, cable writers began developing plots that spanned seasons and often left viewers with more questions than answers. Soon, those developing the shows came to be as complex and unpredictable as the characters they were creating.

Though I understand that the focus of Martin's book is, as the title states, the difficult men behind the television revolution, I think there was a bit of a missed opportunity to examine the role of female writers in Hollywood. While it could potentially fill a separate book on its own, I would have liked to see discussion of the low number of female showrunners as well as their comparatively harsh criticism from the media.

Still, Difficult Men is a fascinating peek into the evolution of television over the past 30 years, digging into backstories and histories of shows like The Wire, Six Feet Under and Breaking Bad, that will thrill even the casual fan.

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  rivercityreading | Aug 10, 2015 |
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"In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the landscape of television began an unprecedented transformation. While the networks continued to chase the lowest common denominator, a wave of new shows, first on premium cable channels like HBO and then basic cable networks like FX and AMC, dramatically stretched television's narrative inventiveness, emotional resonance, and artistic ambition. No longer necessarily concerned with creating always-likable characters, plots that wrapped up neatly every episode, or subjects that were deemed safe and appropriate, shows such as The Wire, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Deadwood, The Shield, and more tackled issues of life and death, love and sexuality, addiction, race, violence, and existential boredom. This revolution happened at the hands of a new breed of auteur: the all-powerful writer-show runner. These were men nearly as complicated, idiosyncratic, and "difficult" as the conflicted protagonists that defined the genre."--

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