I like to think I'm fairly open minded when it comes to 'the arts.' I have favourite music artist in pretty much all genres (hip-hop, country, you name it) and my favourite films range from balls out comedies to foreign language art house. What I'm really trying to say is I don't have much bearing on content, for me it can be about anything as long as it is done well. In music, film and theatre things that show real talent do manage to find there way into the public eye, albeit not as much as some people would like, but at least everyone has heard of the Beatles or Titanic.
Though on such genre that isn't as lucky is Television. I feel TV gets a bad press because nowadays people just think it's filled with reality shows, soaps or mediocre situation comedies. What makes me sad is you think of programs like The Wire, which is critically considered the best TV series ever made ever and barely anyone has even heard of it! Same goes for most of the HBO original series' like Band of Brothers, Rome, Deadwood, The Pacific, these programs get nominated for 20+ Emmys and no-one really knows what they are. Hell, the only HBO series that gets any mainstream press coverages is Sex and the City and that's only become popular again because they made it into films (which were no where near as well received as the series, I'm just sayin').
People's taste does scare me sometimes, it just seems so odd the critical acclaim rarely translates into mainstream attention.
It also scares me that I seemed to have turned into some sort of HBO fan boy.
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