TV’s Mid Life Crisis

“I’ve watched all of these shows. They’re not bad. They’re simply … mid. Which is what makes them, frustratingly, as emblematic of the current moment in TV as their stars’ previous shows were of the ambitions of the past. What we have now is a profusion of well-cast, sleekly produced competence. We have tasteful remakes of familiar titles. We have the evidence of healthy budgets spent on impressive locations. We have good-enough new shows that resemble great old ones. We have entered the golden age of Mid TV.” I don’t agree with all the classifications of all the shows listed in this article, but James Poniewozik has his clicker finger on the pulse of a notable trend. NYT (Gift Article): The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV.