In the recent Biggest Hospital Drama Pitta bitter middle-aged patient called a handsome young Latin emergency room nurse Mateo, “Erik Estrada.” After shrugging, Mateo turned to veteran accusing nurse Dana and asked who Erik Estrada was. Incredibly, she quoted ChipsEstrada's popular seventies motorcycle drama, then playfully scolded: "Learn your TV history!"
Meanwhile, it premieres in the second season of the Peacock Mystery series Poker faceNatasha Lyonne's criminal, Charlie Cale Children police nightevery time it mentions it sounds crazier. (We were told that season nine is “In the mind of a coma patient, the evil twins of the child policeman shoot around the neck.”)
Chips It's real, Children police night It's fake, the former's two-dimensional storytelling and the latter's hard and absurdity seem to have a lot in common with any of their shows mentioned. Poker face It is one of the most popular new series of 2023. Pitt The reviews that received positive reviews seemed likely to be the big Emmy player. These are premium TV shows, with respected producers: Rian Johnson Go out of the knife Movie creation Poker faceand most Pitt Creative Team first works together in historical classical medical drama yes.
Perhaps most importantly, these shows know their TV history and love it. In the moment when too many mediums are made up of Leaden's "10 Hours of Movies" season, Pitt and Poker face is the pioneer of a popular new sport that makes TV a television.
Pitt The intensity of cross-pollination yes Trauma scenarios with real-time format twenty four. The 15-episode season covers a turnaround at Pittsburgh Trauma Center, one hour at a time, giving viewers and doctors a breath of no attack from patients. Some cases are very mild: There is a problem with the silicone butt injection, which is a minor injury victim of orgy and a cute dog. Others are the heaviest people: A college student was brain-deathed by an overdose of fentanyl, and a little girl drowned while saving her sister and pouring it into the pool. The momentum of the series is impeccable, but each episode (like God and Philo T. Farnsworth intend, released every week) feels like a satisfying unit.
Poker face It is a homage to the classic TV exploration program, especially “HowCatchem,” where viewers see murders happen and suspense the way our heroes will foil the killer. Johnson is a big fan of the most famous show of this genre, Peter Falk Columbuswhile facing the bad guys in the new premiere, Lyonne even left some impressions. Killers and victims of this season include Cynthia Erivo, Kumail Nanjiani, as well as John Mulaney and Richard Kind, currently the TV agency where the duo worked hard on Netflix talk show. Everyone lives with John Mulaney. Each Poker face Surprising and enjoyable in different ways. Charlie investigates a new episode of the first-year class, Pet Gerbil.
forward soprano and breaking BadTV is regarded as a medium smaller than movies. But even then, TV shows still have some advantages. They spend more time with the characters so that the audience can get a deeper understanding of them. The plots they provide may be different in style and tone. And, when the character or story doesn’t work, we don’t get stuck all season, like we do now in cable and streaming dramas.
Some modern shows have become so ambitious, or pretentious that there is an epic gap between the seasons that it is hard to recall or care about what has happened in the two to three years since the last time they were last seen. Pitt Designed to appear every year - Bear,,,,, Slow horseand Murder only in buildings - There are enough plots to remind us how much we lost in reducing the TV season to six and eight seasons.
Even the broadcast network is using program drama for the Renaissance. CBS has Elsbethanother interesting person, and surprisingly tangled and emotional Matlock Restart. And there is no doubt that ABC is stupid Doctor Odysseythat's House MD On a cruise ship, shirtless with star Joshua Jackson as much as possible.
Arguably, so much TV buzz has been about these backward shows over the past six months, and the project of movie DNA (even Apple+'s good) Disclaimerwhich brought Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón together, and no one noticed it. Creator, learn about your TV history. There are a lot of great things in the medium if you care enough to do it right.