The Revolution was Televised: How the Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Lost, and Other Groundbreaking Dramas Changed TV Forever
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The Pequod Review:
The Revolution was Televised is collection of short but occasionally informative pieces on the creation of several critically-acclaimed TV shows, including The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad. When a TV show is successful a small number of people typically get most of the credit, but these profiles show there are other important factors as well — network input that sometimes is helpful (“Don Draper needs to have a secret,” an AMC executive told Matt Weiner), flexibility in plot lines (The Sopranos wasn’t initially written to be a mob drama), and a lot of luck and fortunate timing.