[lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages?/ Why not the bestfor the working class ?

[Carl Remick]

>From: John Thornton <jthorn65 at mchsi.com>
>
>Certainly not. Let me rephrase the question however. Is The Sopranos a 
>program that glorifies unbridled unregulated capitalism in the form of 
>organized crime, as it has been described to me by others familiar with the 
>program, and if so is this program to be taken as evidence of a Golden Age 
>for TV?

The Sopranos glorifies nothing:  not capitalism, not organized crime, not 
the feds, not cops, not the church, not psychiatry, not humans in general 
... trapped in self-deception, prey to savage impulses, causing endless 
misery for themselves and all around them.  But I don't want to suggest the 
series is any kind of grim viewing experience.  Among its many virtues, it's 
incredibly funny and makes great use of music.

I don't think there is any doubt that The Sopranos is the best US TV drama 
series ever made -- one shining exception, at least, to the entropic decay 
that abounds elsewhere in the cultural landscape.

Carl