Conventions:
- High Quality drama
- Multiple episodes, hours, years
- Content can be dark and difficult but innovative
- Time shifting
- Easily accessible
- Attracts some of the best and innovative writers and actors
- More personal
- Challenges the simplistic story lines and stereotypical characters
- Reflection of whats happening - politics
- HBO launched the sopranos in 1999 (to 2007), which was a huge commercial and critical hit
- Increasingly these shows were about the crisis of us identity and *hegemony
*leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others.
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