FRIENDS CORNER DRAMAS SERIES
These are the 20 best drama series to emerge since “The Sopranos,” arranged in chronological order.įor the sake of focus and sanity, Mike Hale, Margaret Lyons and I limited our debates to American series TV drama.
If “The Sopranos,” which debuted 20 years ago this week, built the ground floor, this list looks at what TV erected on top of it. They could resist quick answers (or any answers, in the case of the Russian from “Pine Barrens”) and tidy moral conclusions. They could have high visual and narrative ambitions. TV series, we saw, could rely on audiences to pay close attention to a long-running story. But after the ducks landed in Tony’s backyard pool in January 1999, an immense flock followed. But “The Sopranos” was as clear a marker of the beginning of an era (even if I hate the term “Golden Age”) as anything in TV.īefore “The Sopranos,” yes, TV dramas could take risks (“Twin Peaks”) and tell stories about difficult people (“NYPD Blue”). It may be that no TV show does anything entirely new - change always builds on change. But lately, I’m getting the feeling that I came in at the end.” - Tony Soprano They are a lifeline and also a record of things that we’d never want recorded.“ It’s good to be in something from the ground floor. The group chat lays bare our worst human impulses the emotional releases we need but also hope to never be shared more widely. What was once the provenance of unrecorded verbal exchanges is now a matter of digital record. But Bad Art Friend needles deep under our collective skin, forcing us to look at ourselves in the mirror and ask if we’re the Dawn or the Sonya - or, perhaps more realistically, if we are both in different ways at different points in our lives and social development. (Along with the fact that Dorland apparently pitched it directly to him.) After all, the major players are not famous, and their legal battles are small, in the grand scheme of things.
Our love of good stories - and gossip - is most likely exactly what drew journalist Robert Kolker to this conflict in the first place. I will die on this hill.- Ali Thee Emmy Winner October 8, 2021 A little bit of shit-talking with your friends about other people is good actually. Sometimes the stories we tell have clear and positive social value. Maybe this is because so many in my corner of the internet are storytellers by nature trained by the Nora Ephron adage, “everything is copy.” Stories are how we make sense of the complicated, often cruel world we all inhabit. I also hope to never have to confront those comments.īut judging from Twitter (which is, of course, only a half-measure at best), many writers, if forced to choose a side, have found themselves drawn closer to Larson than Dorland. And I accept that it is fundamentally human to do so. But I respect the right of people to speak about me and text about me in petty ways, it would be hypocritical not to. The times in my life that I’ve had access to those private thoughts, it has been deeply painful. Most of us spend our lives suspecting that someone, somewhere - maybe even someone we care for or admire - is probably saying something crappy about us behind our backs. (And as a new trove of legal documents shows, the chats explicitly acknowledge that Dorland was the target of Larson’s fiction.) Allegations of bullying and harassment abounded. Group texts and emails, in which Larson and her writer friends gossiped about and criticized Dorland, were made public through discovery. After Dorland, who considered Larson a friend (a friendship that does not seem to have ever been reciprocated) reached out to Larson to inquire why she had not acknowledged her posts about the kidney donation, Larson was inspired to write a short story about white saviorism and organ donation that, at least in an early version, excerpted from Dorland’s original Facebook post. One of the “friends” in this Facebook group was Sonya Larson, an arguably more successful author, who Dorland knew from a writers' workshop. Because of its many layers of low-grade bad behavior on the part of all parties, the essay set off Big Internet Discussions.įor those unfamiliar with the Bad Art Friend mania, here are the broad strokes of the winding, lengthy story: Dawn Dorland, a writer, donated a kidney to a stranger - an unquestionably generous act - and then proceeded to post in a Facebook group an emotional letter written to whomever her kidney would ultimately go to.
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