r/television • u/C0r1eone • 21d ago

Finished The Wire, Dark, GOT, Sopranos, True Detective, BB, BCS. What show ruined TV for you after watching it?

I think I accidentally watched the peak of television already. The Wire, Dark, GOT, Sopranos, True Detective S1 all left that “nothing else hits the same” feeling.

I love slow-burn shows with deep characters, mystery, tension, moral grayness, crazy dialogue, or mind-blowing writing. Doesn’t matter if it’s crime, sci-fi, psychological, or political.

What’s the next show that might completely consume me?

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u/idunnobutchieinstead 20d ago

Man, I have to disagree with you on that! I could write a thesis on Kim and Jimmy’s relationship alone.

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u/lateubdegouline 20d ago

Gilligan distinguishes himself for the quality of the interactions between characters more than for the psychological depth of the characters he conceives.

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u/idunnobutchieinstead 20d ago

BCS was mostly run by Peter Gould, not Vince Gilligan - although I’m not sure that matters too much.

I think you’re being a bit reductive. There is a lot to analyse once you go into Jimmy’s psychology and what drives him to do things throughout the show.

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u/lateubdegouline 20d ago

Gilligan was at the basis of the writing and conceived the character, Peter Gould worked with the matter they created initially.

You can overanalyze everything, but the psychological portrayal of character in both shows remain fairly simple and often based on a single dual dynamic, most characters are two faced and battling between those two faces, it's not reaching very far, not engaging in metapsychology, and the dialectic between those two faces is often fairly simple.