We are currently living in a Golden Age of television drama – well-written screenplays, innovative narrative techniques, significant themes, gripping stories, mostly true-to-life representations, all superbly-acted, and realized with attention to detail and high production values. See, for instance:
- 24 (although many implausible plots, the office politics is true-to-life)
- Band of Brothers
- Borgen
- Breaking Bad
- The Bridge
- Covert Affairs
- Damages
- Deadwood
- Generation Kill
- The Good Wife
- Homeland
- The Hour
- The Killing
- Mad Men
- The Newsroom
- Political Animals
- Prisoners of War (Hatufim)
- The Sopranos
- Spiral (Engrenages)
- Spooks
- Sports Night
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
- Suits
- The Unit
- The West Wing
- The Wire
Like the golden age of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, one has to wonder: Why here? Why now?
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