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Wednesday Jul 24, 2013
Difficult Men and Television's Third Golden Age
Wednesday Jul 24, 2013
Wednesday Jul 24, 2013
Today, we are in what some consider the third golden age of television. Many programs are the talk of National Public Radio and of the most elite dinner parties. They have become a significant part of our cultural conversation. So what changed?
Was it the long tail of cable television, the need for men to find a place reassert themselves into the national conversation, or simply a natural home for adult storytelling at a time when the movies have ceded this territory.
GQ correspondent Brett Martin takes a deep look in Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad.
My conversation with Brett Martin:
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