Can you be more impressed by the finalist than the winner? Can being suspended turn into an advantage? Can Coco Gauff go above the last hurdle in Paris? Djokovic? So many questions!
I think I see where you're going ;) "I’ve watched all of these shows. They’re not bad. They’re simply … mid. Which is what makes them, frustratingly, as emblematic of the current moment in TV as their stars’ previous shows were of the ambitions of the past.
What we have now is a profusion of well-cast, sleekly produced competence. We have tasteful remakes of familiar titles. We have the evidence of healthy budgets spent on impressive locations. We have good-enough new shows that resemble great old ones.
NYT comfortable problem of mid tv https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/arts/television/mid-tv.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IU8.1WqW.owY1B6rvCMPc&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
I think I see where you're going ;) "I’ve watched all of these shows. They’re not bad. They’re simply … mid. Which is what makes them, frustratingly, as emblematic of the current moment in TV as their stars’ previous shows were of the ambitions of the past.
What we have now is a profusion of well-cast, sleekly produced competence. We have tasteful remakes of familiar titles. We have the evidence of healthy budgets spent on impressive locations. We have good-enough new shows that resemble great old ones.
We have entered the golden age of Mid TV."