There is a lot of bad British television that never makes it over here because it's, um, bad. Which is probably where the whole Anglophile concept comes from, we only hear about the good stuff.

Of course they mean that, cause that's the subject of this site.

Just wait till you find out what Star Wars Anthology refers to.

This argument comes from the heart cause I'm one of those aforementioned people.

Ok sure, but this is the AV Club, not the AV Financial Times. The topic is the subjective analysis of TV, not how much money things make.

Care, no. But they do create it, given that culture is an aspect of reality.

Well yeah, but they're gonna die before we do, so.

Bingo. Just like every single area of life.

I think it's more the people who wouldn't like the show anyways were forced to watch it in order to keep up with the cultural conversation once it unexpectedly blew up during that first season, and that's when those criticisms came out. It wasn't critics changing their minds, it was critics discovering it and not…

True, but there's enough of us here to provide a pretty strong counter argument to a generalization that sweeping.

That's what happens when you cast Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell in close succession.

Does the Dick Wolf model rule television still? From like a cultural perspective, no one cares about those anymore. I think the article is more like "rule" in terms of ruling the discussion around the format. I still think it's wrong, but the most popular shows are the novel shows, long form series that tell one story…

From that description, everything.

Your mode of thinking is still outdated, people don't watch reruns on cable much anymore. If anthologies are always in Netflix's trending queue, and it's possible they will be given how suited for that format of viewing they are, then that will be the sign.

Well everything is bad in extremes, but yeah, we're so far from the extreme it doesn't warrant mentioning.

Only the unintentional, subconscious kind.

Since the other name associated with this format is Nic Pizzolatto, no, I guess not.

Though that's a bit of a misleading statistic, obviously a lot of those 400 shows are going to crash and burn, like the 20 that will fail to air on NBC. So there is some idea that these few shows in an unusual format is capturing the public attention. Just not any idea based in fact, since like no one watches any of…

Oh most certainly. But that first season of Glee or AHS: Asylum could not have been made by a wholly bad person.

Gonna put on my pedantry pants and say not really, "the rest of the country" has gotten a lot savvier since we put DVRs and Netflix in their hands. Judging everyone's taste by the subset of the population too lazy to figure out how to use an app doesn't seem like a good idea.