>> you can't bring back a life, but you can show some kind of compassion that you care what you've done. for me, i'm going to be honest with you, i want to take that burden that they placed on me and hand it right back to them. that's yours to carry. >> as a result of the second bankruptcy filing, almost all of the trials against johnson & johnson are once again on hold. the women you met in this hour are among thousands of plaintiffs who oppose johnson & johnson's use of the bankruptcy court to settle these lawsuits. join us next week as we travel to san francisco, which has been plagued with issues of crime and drugs. what happened to san francisco? find out next sunday. -do you wanna watch some more? -my vacation day starts now. you wanna invite me in? you ever find yourself complaining that there are too many really good shows on tv? i feel like that needs to be celebrated. -[isa] a new era in television. -[both] peak tv! you are so lucky!

[gayle] broadcast and cable networks do you ever find yourself complaining there are too many good shows on tv? >> i feel like that needs to be celebrated. >> a new era in television. >> broadcast and cable networks face a growing competitor, online programming. >> it would take a revolution for someone like me to have a career as an actor, and the revolution was netflix. >> you're right. >> there's a new player in the original content game. >> it's bedtime. >> this flood of actors and flooding into tv. >> the people that are going to change the narrative out there is us. >> there's an avalanche of new streaming services. >> word of the year? binge watch. >> when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. >> this is going to be so fun. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ television used to be, here's what we're showing you and here's your only chance to see it. >> when there were fewer tv options, there wasn't as much room for experimentation and creativity that we've seen an explosion of. >> coming into 2010, hbo was the king of the prestige drama. >> beautiful, ignorant bastards. >> once scorsese does "boardwalk empire," it just speaks to the power of television at that point.

>> they have no rules. you're only limited by budget and imagination. >> hbo is going to the top talent in terms of directing, writing, casting. as an actor, that's where you wanted to work. you wanted to be on hbo. >> i was supposed to dump y'all off and report back to the cp. >> then why are you still here? >> i like to watch the new guys sweat. >> for tv, it felt like the closest place you could get to being in a feature film. >> and then where tv goes next, also on hbo, is peak tv with "game of thrones." >> what hbo hasn't done yet is fantasy. so the books by george r.r. martin, in a way they read like an hbo show. okay. let's take "the lord of the rings" and give it the psychological complexity and the real politic of an hbo show. >> when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. >> everybody is vying for the throne, as the title suggests. and to get there, they're going to do incredibly violent things

to each other. and it's going to prove that adults will watch crazy fantasy sci-fi stuff with dragons in it and think it's the best thing that ever happened. >> one thing that sells it initially is that they do an extremely good job of casting. one of the first characters that pops out for everyone is tirian lannister, paid by peter dinklage. >> let me give you some advice, bastard, never forget what you are. the rest of the world will not. wear it like armor. >> it was massive in every respect in terms of its ambitions, in terms of its story telling, in terms of its budgets, its locations, its attention to detail. it became a huge phenomenon. >> my mother tells me a king should never strike his lady. >> the way the show started out was so misogynistic.

every woman went through hell, but they persevered and they ended up as the ones that were really calling the shots, the ones that were leading armies, the ones that were basically fighting for the throne. >> and the emmy goes to "game of thrones." >> it dominated the awards circuit. it won multiple emmys. it was on the lips of everyone, from catch phrases to moments within the show. and by tend, all that was less about how big were the dragons and how big was the action and less about the intricate character studies that we loved at the beginning. >> hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition demanding a remake of the final season. >> and by the final season, it was just limping to what many just agreed was a very disappointing finale. >> most great shows are unlike anything that has come before them. what hbo kept doing was going after something else new. that was their secret weapon.

>> this is kind of ambitious television that hbo had creatively pioneered, which was when cable channels like fx and amc got into the original programming business. and they're willing to take chances on shows like "mad men." and then "the walking dead" was an extended creature feature. >> "the walking dead" on amc was a gigantic zombie show at a moment that people were loving zombie things. >> "walking dead" really captured everyone's attention. it just has this explosive moment across social media. people can't stop talking about it. because of that, amc kept renewing it season after season. >> it was a show people responded to because it was gross and terrifying and fun and visceral in all of those ways that "mad men" is cerebral and precise. >> the blissed out, crossed leg don draper, eyes closed up in malibu, it's just a landmark moment in television. but the other great moment

people remember is peggy olson striegd in to mccann like a badass. there's such a sense of fu to it. it's really powerful. >> amc was no longer american movie classics. what they stood for was quality programming. >> we went to amc because, frankly, amc was the only outfit that was asking us to do the show. >> cooking is art, and the shit i cook is the bomb, so don't be telling me. >> shit you cook is shit. >> "breaking bad" is the story of a chemistry teacher who finds out he's dying from cancer. and what he decides to do as a means of providing for his family is to make meth with his former student who is now a drug dealer. >> "breaking bad" was a show that had struggled to find an audience in its early years. >> i was blissfully unaware of the terrible trouble we were with viewership-wise. we were right on the razor edge of being cancelled.

>> but once its reruns started running on netflix in the 2010s, it really took off and exploded and became a phenomenon in a way that it just had not been before. >> from an acting perspective, bryan crantson gave one of the ultimate enduring performances. in walter white. >> a guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? no. i am the one who knocks. >> this was a guy who was hell-bent on a very specific philosophy. he was dying and he was going to go out rich. and it ended up being both scary and immediately recognizable was the birth of a story-telling icon. >> say my name. >> heisenberg. >> you're goddamn right. >> oddly enough, it wound up

being walt's criminal partner, jesse, who became the moral center of the series. >> i am not turning down the money. i am turning down you. >> which is a funny irony. the writers were all set to kill off jesse pinkman at the end of the final season. >> it's jesse you want to come out whole at the end of it because he ends up losing so very much throughout that series. >> and you're? >> saul goodman. i'm his attorney and you are in violation of his constitutional rights. >> when they said they were going to do a spinoff of "breaking bad" about saul goodman, i couldn't imagine what they were thinking. >> better call saul! >> peter and i set out to keep our crew working and to keep working ourselves. let's do a spinoff. let's do "better call saul." and we sold it without really knowing what we're going to do. people would be amazed at how little we knew in those early days. >> they revealed that he was not really saul goodman, that before that he was this guy named jimmy mcgill, who was a much more complicated person, much more sympathetic.

>> i've been doing the right thing for all these years, and where has it gotten me? nowhere. >> they wanted jimmy to turn into saul by the end of season one, but the creators saw the same things that we in the audience did. jimmy is a wonderful character. we like jimmy. >> i'm fine with this. >> me too. wait until you see what i floss with. >> if jesse pinkman was the key to unlocking the character of walter white in "breaking bad," i think the key to unlocking the character of jimmy mcgill is kim wexler, played by the amazing gracie horn. >> kim lexler may be one of the greatest characters created in the last decade. there's a scene where jimmy brings her in for the first time on a scheme. >> come with me. >> what? >> just come on. trust me. >> he decides to try and rope this stock trader into paying for this $50 shot of tequila they can't afford. as soon as she realizes what

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buy movies and television shows from other studios and then stream them through this portal. then it realized, wait, we're becoming too successful and everyone else is realizing how successful they are. what do we have to do? we have to become a studio. >> welcome to washington. >> by happenstance, we had a meeting with a production team that was making "house of cards." they kind of mentioned david fincher is going to direct it and we've got kevin spacey and robin wright starring, and i immediately kind of lit up because i loved the original "house of cards." i had seen it on our streaming before, and we went into the meeting and we sat and said we will give you a two-season order, no notes, which was completely unheard of at the time. >> the new netflix drops $100 million to create the television show "house of cards." >> i think the writing that emerged from "house of cards" set the stage for the ability to do deep serial storytelling that kind of emerged in 12 hours.

>> very nice to meet you, ms. underwood. drive safe. there's a lot of ice on the road. >> i will. >> you kind of want to take a shower after watching it, but, oh, my god, i've got to see what happens next. >> they drop all of season 1, all 13 episodes at the same time, and this is when the netflix revolution begins. >> they really are the streaming company that people think of first and foremost, and it's because of the original content now. it's not just a place to go and binge watch old episodes of "breaking bad" anymore. >> and then came "orange is the new black" based on a book written by a woman who went to prison and writes a book about her prison experiences. it wasn't just women in prison. what got them there? >> look at you, blondie. what did you do? >> aren't you not supposed to ask that question? i read you're not supposed to ask that. >> you read that? you've been studying for prison? >> it's like the trojan horse that brings you into all these

other stories, and you see all these worlds that you haven't seen on tv before. >> chocolate and vanilla swirl. >> there's a whole long list of conventional wisdom about what tv stars look like. we didn't have all that conventional wisdom baked into us. >> pretty much all the main characters are women, and a very diverse group of women. and not just in terms of race. they're diverse in terms of sexuality and age. and the prison in its own kind of way becomes their community. >> that's right. burn this [ bleep ]. >> "orange is the new black" came out of nowhere. i remember people saying, oh, my god, you have to watch this. and it was because it was so propulsive, and you loved the characters and you loved the plot, and you couldn't stop hitting that "next" button. >> it's great that the show had a big audience. it's great that it played internationally. but it also broke out incredible stars. uzo aduba, danielle brooks, natasha lyonne,

and laverne cox, a trans character in the lead, who becomes the first trans woman on the cover of "time" magazine. >> oh, gee, i'm sorry. >> that's okay, honey, you can look. i spent a lot of money for it. >> if you didn't have netflix before, you now need to have netflix, because everyone was talking about that show. >> bocek horseman is an anti-hero story, except it's animated and a comedy and it's about a horse. >> hey, buddy. pass me that bottle of vodka. >> is that really how this works? >> it's open bar. don't be a dick. >> with bojack, i love the idea of an alcoholic horse challenging the conversation about mental illness. i thought, i've got to be a part of this. >> hey, it's bedtime. >> it's fine. i can talk to you and also judge these women's bodies at the same time. what do you want? >> a comedy about depression seemed incredibly novel. people really did fall in love with the show because it really is so unique. at the end of the day, we want these shows to be relatable, connected, human.

>> i'm thinking about stuff when i'm shagging. maybe i'm not good at this. maybe i'm doing it wrong. maybe she knows i'm doing it wrong. >> one thing we knew for sure from streaming everyone else's content is people's tastes are wildly diverse. the netflix brand was about personalization. we wanted to make your favorite show and my favorite show. sometimes you turn on tv because you just want to escape. sometimes you want to laugh. >> sorry. are you hiring actors to play wrestlers or are we the wrestlers? >> yes? >> sometimes you turn on the tv because you want to connect and you want to cry or you want to be scared. and other times, you just want to shut your brain off and just be entertained. and we have to have something for everyone in that model. >> the beauty of "stranger things" for me, it's "the goonies" meets the spielberg movie. they captured the '80s in a really cool way, and they did a great job of dragging you back into an era. >> it is the nostalgia factor, but the story is good too.

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[theme music] what were his exact words, please? [carrie] an american prisoner of war has been turned. [jacqueline] in homeland, damian lewis plays a marine who is captured and held for several years. where is that place? >> an american prisoner of war has been turned. >> in "homeland," damian lewis plays a marine who was captured and held for several years. during that time, he converts to islam. the central question is when he comes back home, is he a hero or is he a terrorist in disguise? this man's heroism is only in question because of his faith. claire danes' character, this very reluctant anti-hero is

tasked with figuring that out. >> and also, the main character carrie, played by danes, struggles with bipolar, and that's a thing the show digs into in some really fascinating and meaty ways. >> my green pen is dry. i've asked four, five, six times to renew them. there is no understanding. they offer me blue. they offer me black. green so hard? is green elusive? i mean, my kingdom for a green pen. >> carrie mathison in many ways is wearing and has internalized the strain and the stress and the damage of these years of war. >> i just remember this still being a really big deal at the beginning of this decade. claire danes, movie actress, has daned to come to television to play this complicated character. >> if i have a chance to work with material of this caliber, i will, in any medium. cable has created this whole new environment that is incredibly fertile. >> what started in the 2000s was the gradual elimination of the mid budget movie.

so you have this great class of character actors looking for satisfying material, and they're not finding it in movies so, they started to come to showtime and places on cable. >> how would you like your eggs, sweetie? >> fluffy. >> "shameless" is based on a uk television series about a dysfunctional lower income family. >> frank gallagher, father, teacher, metropolitan mentor, captain of our little ship. >> people just fell in love with this really messed up family. >> you think you're the first person who has woke up in bed with a dead body? >> they really enjoyed this pulpy descent into the dark side of hollywood that just kept going and going. >> you came with me. >> because you're a criminal, bob. >> in "billions," damian lewis comes off of "homeland." he plays a hedge fund manager. >> we're dealing with increasing wealth disparity, increasing shadiness from the financial

sector. all of this is tied up in this great battle between paul lewis and paul giovanni. it's a combination of crowd pleasing elements all at once. >> i came out here to be a movie star, did screen tests and everything. >> jessica lange goes to television and gave "american horror story" the clout. the first year. by this point in her career, she was revered. >> now is not your time. >> "american horror story" is an amityville style haunted house horror story, but by the end of the first season, everyone is dead. then when they announced the second season, everyone was how? each season has one continuing story line, and then the next season, it reboots. when they went to year two, they retained almost the entire cast, gave them completely different roles, put them in a new situation, and they hit it out of the park. >> the thing is decapitating

women, three of them so far. >> i see you for exactly who you are. >> i had four seasons, and each year was a marvelous character. you know, i mean, everything changed from one year to another, which made it very interesting for me. >> life is to be lived. >> ryan murphy says this is when these women, as actresses, reach their fruition and are getting these incredibly juicy roles. >> kathy bates, oh, my gosh, she was almost really unrecognizable a couple of those seasons. one year, sarah paulson played a woman with two heads. >> i think she's lying. >> i think she likes it. >> shut your disgusting mouth you slut. >> "american horror story" was so good in showcasing its actors, and "fargo," in addition to that, was brilliant at showcasing the possibilities of the anthology format. >> you going to hit me? that's a laugh. >> i heard they were going to

make something called "fargo," i thought, what, a sequel? it wasn't a sequel at all? instead, it was this whole other sensibility that noah holly described as full cohen brothers. >> you have three seconds to pick your ass up and get out of here or i'm going to squash you like a bug. >> what he proved was as long as the logic held and was authentic, you could go anywhere with how cruel and odd and weird this story was. >> each season, as it comes back, it's a different set of characters that is in some way connected to what happened before but mostly its own thing. >> it's a difficult challenge, but they found a unique way around it and brought in some exceptional talent. and that raised the bar for television. >> in the new age of tv, the anthology gave movie stars a way to feel comfortable doing tv. they are not trapped into this box of working as the same character for 20 years. the same time, there is enough material to explore a character and have different dimensions. woody harrelson and matthew mcconaughey, they bring such stature.

to "true detective." >> three months i don't hear a word from you -- >> you asked. >> yeah. and now i'm begging for you to shut the [ bleep ] up. >> in "true detective," you have the opposite of a buddy cop movie. they're two cops that don't get along, don't have the same approach, played by matthew mcconaughey and woody harrelson. >> you are like the michael jordan of being a son of a bitch. >> from the movies to tv used to be a step down. for matthew mcconaughey, it was a step up. he masters these speeches, this world view, in a way that nobody had seen come. >> and that is a terrible and secret fate of all life. you're trapped. >> the broken down mcconaughey versus the younger one, you just didn't realize he had these different levels. >> you had the caliber of talent on camera that you didn't normally get. these anthology-type shows are

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[theme music] thank you so much for coming. what an amazing turnout. [daniel] parks and recreation. it's a story of leslie knope, the character played by amy poehler, trying to change the world by changing thank you so much for coming. what an amazing turnout. >> "parks and recreation." it's a story of leslie, the character played by amy poehler,

trying to change the world by changing the parks and recreation department in a small indiana town. >> sir, this is a children's slide. you're not allowed to sleep in here. >> works with "the office" and he comes in and brings us "parks and recreation." >> the first season paints lesley as a new version of michael scott from "the office." this boss that everyone kind of can't stand. >> from time to time when i think of an eloquent saying or phrase, i have tom write them down. he's collecting them for my memoirs. >> here's lesley's quote from wednesday. >> i think they realize that that energy doesn't work for amy poehler, who's a much sunnier person. >> everybody ready? >> yes. >> all right! >> this character, lesley nope, is a huge optimist who overpromises, but she has zero skills. and there's nothing cool about her. and i really like playing that kind of character. >> this is going to be so fun. i'll bring s'mores. >> just as the decade turns, "parks and rec" gets a revamp. they go from cringe to a kind of

wide-eyed optimism. and when they change, that show takes flight. >> giddy up. giddy up! >> they found a way to make leslie nope aspirational. mike shirt is an optimist. he believes that if you get good people together, sometimes you can get good results. >> mike shirt followed "parks and recreation" up with "brooklyn nine-nine," which in its own way is perhaps even more challenging, because you're attempting to do an optimistic show about how the nypd blue operates. >> captain, hey, welcome to the murder. what are you doing here? >> if you look at the through line of what mike shirt does, he creates this workplace family. "brooklyn nine-nine" was able to get away with that magic, not only get away with it, excel with it. >> nine-nine! >> nine-nine. >> but it became more and more difficult with every passing season because we were supposed to find they're bumbling

lovable, as the bumbling of actual cops became more and more disturbing and terrifying. >> i promise you we're going to get you justice. >> yeah, we'll see. >> i think at a certain point, mike did realize that grounding these optimistic stories in our actual world was becoming more and more complicated. >> oh, look at this. they added a tenth dimension. >> and suddenly "the good place" is a show where its connection to the real world is very, very limited. >> "the good place" is a comedy set in the afterlife. kristen bell plays this awful person who gets into heaven. >> your life has ended and you're now in the next phase of your existence in the universe. >> i don't feel bad at all doing a spoiler alert about this because it's been enough years. the entire first season, you thought ted danson was her angel in heaven guiding her through

this transition, except it turns out -- >> this is the bad place. >> oh, no, no, no. it's not heaven at all. and the whole series changes. >> you thought we would torture each other. and we did for a little. but we also took care of each other. >> a workplace comedy that manages to be one of the most thought-provoking shows about death showing up for each other and our communal human condition. >> they're just going to grow up and become borg old white people. >> most of our friends are white actually. >> okay. can everybody just calm down and go back to their own conversations. >> "modern family." this is a phenomenal show. this is a show that took every single second that it had on screen and it was going to make you laugh. >> oh, you look adorable. >> adorable? i'm not a puppy. >> honey, it was meant as a compliment. >> here, i got this. honey, you look super sexy. >> ew. >> well, we tried everything.

>> "modern family" is an interesting one because you have these characters who are upper, upper middle class. also you have a gay couple adopting a child. that's in the first episode. you know exactly who they are. there's no attempt to hide anything. favorite game. >> gay dads. >> you know who had straight parents? >> adolf hitler. >> charles manson. >> shall we go on? >> naomi campbell. >> we have two men living together being part of a larger family. it's part of the show, part of the fabric of the show. but the tensions that are there are not necessarily related to sexual orientation or race or class. >> you'll see the mythical and majestic black family out of their natural habitat and still thriving. go ahead and wave. they'll wave right back. >> what kenya barris does with blackish, they have this family. they are solidly upper middle class. >> i'm not going to have you torturing my son. what are you wearing?

what are you wearing? >> and i love the fact that the robinsons of "black-ish" are real life in that they weren't siloed off from what the rest of america is dealing with. they have to deal with police violence and what that means and what they tell their children about dealing with police and how they have very opposing views. >> the police are damn thugs. >> not all police. >> only 92%. the other 8% are advisers on "law & order" episodes. >> kenya barris comes from the norman leer school. it says, we are going to tackle these things. we are going to make it uncomfortable, and we are going to make it funny, like a number of family comedies on abc did. >> if we get separated, try and join a white family. you will be safe there until i can find you. >> "fresh off the boat" was like a watershed moment for asian american representation. >> i miss the markets back in d.c. they make me feel so calm.

>> it's telling an immigrant story, but it's very funny and each character is not a stereotype. everyone has depth and nuance. >> my parents were born in taiwan, but my brothers and i were born in d.c. >> oh, your english is very good. >> are you all sisters? >> we got shows that are coming in with a full breadth of different aspects of society that have not been seen on screen, which is really refreshing. and all of that sort of began in the 2010s. >> i researched the history of quinceaneras and found out their totally misogynistic. >> she's been reading again. why do you let her read? >> "one day at a time" is a remake that stories on family of three generations of women headed by rita moreno. >> mom says i'm too young to day. >> but never too young to flirt. when i came out of my mother's womb, i winked at the doctors. "one day at a time" was a really good example of a project that when it was announced it was happening by norman leer himself, who was behind the

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>> raylen gibbons often likes to circumvent justice and maneuver people he knows where bad into circumstances in which he can shoot them and it will be considered justified. >> marshal, i want to tell you something important. >> "justified" is a western that's brought into a southern cop show. >> would you shoot me if you get the chance? >> you make me pull, i'll put you down. >> you watch the first season of that show, he's killing people at a rate of two to three people per episode. and then the second season rolls around, and oh my goodness, the leap the show takes with margo martindale, with kaitlyn dever. >> i had a life. me and my daddy were just fine. >> no, you weren't. >> shut up! >> okay, loretta. >> suddenly there you find the humanity behind all of this, and it is one of the great second seasons in tv history, one of the great leaps that any show has taken.

>> jim can't make these fast enough, huh? >> yes. >> "the americans" is itself a great part of the fx brand as well. >> "the americans" considered concerns two kgb agents. they're spice. >> stop. >> pretending to be a married suburban couple. >> you're my wife. >> is that right? >> elizabeth, very interestingly, is the sort of hard-core ideologue believer, a role tv producer would tend to give to the man. >> i would go to jail. i would die. i would lose everything before i betray my country. >> phillip is more drawn to the idea of doing what he feels give a better life in america for his children. >> is that what you care about? >> no, i care about everything. >> not the motherland? >> i do, but our family comes first. >> the central metaphor of "the

americans" is that every marriage is kind of a cold war. it's two people locked in combat that never actually boil others into combat, and i thought that was just very smart. >> i think fx did so much good work that it moved television forward. >> a lot of these networks have been trying to expand their brand. and a lot of how you expand your brand is with a really, really good scripted title. sundance tv had "rectified," a show i will always tell people to watch. it's a contemplative show, a show about faith and spiritiate, about a guy who was on death row for 20 years and gets released and is traumatized to learn what the show is like. shows like that get to exist because things keep expanding and there keep being room for more ideas and more different versions of what quality looks like. >> cinemax had always been the less respected little brother of hbo. people called it skinamax. and rather than compete with what hbo was able to do on sort

of a high-class level, they start doing these action shows. >> these are great elevated b movie tv shows. and then sometimes cinemax struck gold, like "the nic." you turn a block of programming over to steven soderbergh, and in this case, it was brilliant television. >> gentlemen, everyone scrubbed, washed, cleansed, deloused, p pureified by god. >> "the nic is set in a hospital in the 20th century. clive owen plays their premier physician, and he is well respected, but he is also addicted to heroin. >> there is madness, yet a method in it. >> steven soderbergh as director really set the show apart, particularly because of the camera style. it was a show absolutely filmed like a movie as opposed to a television show. >> usa had this reputation. they were the blue sky network.

they had all of these shows set in sunny locales and along comes mr. robot, which is this dark cyber punk drama about a hacker named elliott played by rami malek, who is trying to bring down the biggest and worst corporation in the world. >> they're so big, they're literally everywhere. a perfect monster of modern society. >> i remember opening up that script, and i could tell this was just special. a young man who was so anxious but unafraid to take down the system. it just felt powerful. it resonated with me. >> if mr. robot was here, what would he do? >> the first thing he'd tell you is stop talking to your imaginary friend. >> that is about as perfect as casting as you're going to come across. that character had to be brilliant, mercurial, odd, and driven, and he was. >> i'm crazy. i have to be crazy because that didn't just happen, right? this is a delusion. >> is this a delusion? i'm a schizo.

>> there is a sense of him being off-balance, which keeps the audience off balance. and i think that is something we not wanted to do to trick the audience, but it was a way of essentially bringing them into his world, understanding how conflicted he was. >> for me, it was one of the most cinematic shows of the decade. i think the angles we used were very unpredictable, and you didn't often see shots like that on television. >> "mr. robot" strikes a chord in part because rami malek was incredible, and you just wanted to watch him do anything. but there was also sort of a level of rising anger at the time about income inequality. it was channeling a level of anger that i think a lot of people were starting to feel around then. >> you know what? >> what? >> sometimes it is a big dick competition. >> "succession" suddenly became the talked about show for hbo. it's basically a fictionalized account of the murdoch family's

life. bryan cox is logan roy, the longtime indomitable head of the family. you have a number of his children all jockeying for position constantly and hoping that ultimately they will be the one to inherit the empire. >> guys, what dad is saying is just know your role and execute. >> my worry is kendall may come across as too cool and likable. >> "succession" is the top shelf of television. "succession" is television that seems to be playing at its highest intellectual level and still being incredibly funny. >> oh, dude, if it's true he's gone, i mean nazis, terrible, right? >> nazis? >> yeah. >> yeah, they're the worst. >> yeah, sure. we all hate nazis. >> it is a phenomenal dive that's detailed and rich. it feels very authentic about families at that level and power and business and politics. and you just can't stop watching. >> mm, yes.

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those people. >> and if anyone thinks i'm going to pull my forelock and curtsy to this mr. nobody -- >> were you discussing mr. crowley? >> with "downton abbey" you have this wonderful show that is strangely old-fashioned but with these modern ideas of soap opera. >> you must be mad. >> i am. i am in the grip of madness. >> i think the turning point for people in "downton abbey" is one of the early episodes where mary sleeps with this man who is visiting downton, and then he drops dead in the bed, and they have to figure out how to get him out and keep it under wraps. >> mama! >> in the traditional masterpiece world, that is not what you would see on a show like that, and i think that is what really drew people in. >> it's a singular vision of julian fellows and a lot of different wonderful actors just making it work. >> and of course i'll have the weekend. >> we'll discuss this later. we mustn't bore the ladies. >> what is the weekend? >> it's a fantasy, of course.

what would it be like to live in this time with titles and manners. it's almost this last element of the monarchy affecting life among people who are not born royals. >> are you my wife or my queen? >> i'm both. >> i want to be married to my wife. >> "the crown" is a netflix series that traces the history of queen elizabeth throughout her life. the show appeals to people just because it feels like you're inside the palace watching what happens in a way we don't often get to see. >> your actions, your breaking of that trust was irresponsible. >> there's always this weird independent in the royal family. and it was sort of fascinating watching queen elizabeth as a young woman. she's so young when she rises to the throne because her father dies, and it's on her to do this thing. >> god save the queen! >> and you appreciate the fact that some of this is fictionalized for dramatic purposes, but it just makes elizabeth so much more sympathetic.

>> i think that the biggest shot we took was the 60s commitment on the crown. nobody knew back then how it would play out. if you go back to season 1, and you have claire foy playing that character so iconically, the last thing you want to do is start all over again. but then, boom, it's olivia colman, and it's phenomenal. >> there is connectivity you can see in the performances. it doesn't feel like there is somebody else stepping into the role. you really feel like you're getting to know the queen in a way you could not possible do were it not for the show. >> with "downton abbey" and "the crown," we did have this sort of british mania. >> we've got ourselves a serial killer. love those. there is always something to look forward. to. >> you have you these beautiful people having tea and talking calmly in pleasant accents. and of course they have problems. that's what's so interesting to us about it, right? the most privileged people still have problems. >> what do you want to do? >> i want to build a time machine out of your [ bleep ] carcass and go back and make it unhappen.

>> "catastrophe" is a show with a transatlantic connection even though it was made and set in england. he is an american businessman on a trip to london. they hook up for what's supposed to be a one-night stand. she finds out she is pregnant. >> you just don't think stuff like this will happen. >> well, the repeated sexual intercourse between two healthy adults will do the exact thing it's supposed to do. have you ever done a science class? >> it's a whole relationship playing out in the wrong order. they get pregnant, they have a kid and then they get married, and only then do they fall in love. >> i'll be sure to treat you like a nasty little bitch. that was a joke. >> oh, i know. >> okay. i was like, okay. >> 2010s in many ways were the decade of the comedy auteur, like phoebe waller-bridge, who created "fleabag" about this destructive woman who gets in all these bad relationships and can't stop herself.

>> her name is fleabag. that is show sees herself, if that tells you anything. she is grieving her mother's death and the death of her best friend. >> she has this really dysfunctional family, a dysfunctional love life. >> i never managed to actually -- up the bum with anyone before. >> to be fair, he does have large penis. >> and also constantly breaks the fourth wall. she will address the audience. so we're in on it. >> the only thing harder than having to tell your super high powered perfect, anorexic rich sister that you ran out of money is having to ask her to bail you out. >> you get from the beginning she's trying to tell you how bad she is because she feels it herself. and i think that's probably the magic of that character. because we all kind of feel awful at times. >> the first season is very dark and sad and weird. and the second season is kind of a rom com without ever becoming a rom com. what happens is you realize that the fourth wall breaking is an attempt to disconnect from reality a little bit, and she gets called on it. >> where did you just go?

>> what? >> you just went somewhere. there. there. >> and at the end of that series, she waves goodbye us to us and walks off. it's such a perfect ending to say i've found the ability to believe i'm worthy of love and i don't need this coping mechanism anymore. one of the highlights of the 2010s was getting to see women get to make shows like that. >> welcome to my mid-life crisis! >> pamela adlon and louis c.k. co-created "better things." the now disgraced comedian. >> she appeared in a number of episodes of "louis." and helped him co-write, and then they created their own autobiographical show. >> there is a little dna from "louis" in the show. but pamela adlon really took over, wearing the hat of star and director. >> i want my face and neck to stop being old looking. that's all. >> it's not directly autobiographical, but it feels

in way as though we've learned something about pamela adlon through the character of sam fox. >> you're my mom. i want you to know if i have sex or get high. >> no! hide things from me, please! >> you watch it and it feels intimate in a way that you're almost spying on somebody. and in many ways, i think it's a better show than the one that inspired it. >> are you going to invite me in? >> no. >> why not? >> i can't afford it. >> come on, you really think i'm here for money? >> we do, yes. >> i remember seeing the pilot of "atlanta" and i was oh, you knew it was going to be different. >> donald glover can pretty much do anything. he is actor, director, writer, producer, a recording artist. if he is not an auteur, nobody is. >> it's about black people we have not seen on tv before, and it's about people just trying to make it. >> what i'm scared of is being you, you know, somebody everybody knew what's smart but ended up being a know it all

[ bleep ] that let shit happen to him. >> donald glover played earnest, a college dropout, kind of a ne expecter-do-well. he can't get his life in gear. but he has these friends, and one is an aspiring rapper. he decides i'm going to be your manager. >> latin for hand. >> probably. but i'm going say no for the purpose of my argument. manage comes from the word man, and that isn't really your lane. >> in another era, he would have been an independent filmmaker. and i think that's part of why it's been successful, because in a wave of a lot of new african american-themed content, he doesn't really do any of the things that are obvious. >> where are your ancestors from? >> congo, ivory coast. southeastern bantu region. i don't know. this spooky thing called slavery happened, and my entire ethnic identity was erased. >> each episode, you're going to get something a bit weird, a bit off kilter. sometimes you'll laugh. other times you might be cringing.

but through it all, these characters are really showing who they are and how they react to each situation. >> ma, what about your first day in america? that must have been pretty exciting. >> no. i just got dropped off from the airport and your father went to work. i didn't know nobody, and i barely knew your father. >> aziz came in with this pitch that blew us all away in the meeting. >> what about that first day, though? did you go and explore the city? >> no. i sat on the couch and cried. >> an immigrant story that was a comedy, that had a lot of heart, that had the license to get very, very serious in any given episode. this was the opportunity to give someone a shot at television who didn't have one before. >> stop what you're doing! this is citizen's arrest! >> this is real. this is a real thing that people can really do. >> lena waithe came to our attention on "master of none." she was a real standout from the beginning. it was one of those wait, who is that? >> here is the deal. she straight, but lately i get some serious vibes from her. >> vibes she wants to become a lesbian?

>> no, vibes that she is curious. >> the goal was never to be an actor. i had already sold the pilot to showtime, which was "the shy." but once i read with aziz the very first time, we could feel it. we just knew there was something interesting about the two of us. >> she came eight times in 30 minutes? how is that possible? >> look, i don't have time to explain lesbianship. i don't have the time. >> the character was straight at the time. he said, this is more interesting. you're more interesting, and we're going to create a character around you. and i'll never forget ali yang asking me, so how did you come out? >> are you trying to tell me that you're, you know -- >> lebanese? >> and i started to talk about what that process was like. they said, this is an episode. and aziz said, you have to write it with me. >> i'm just glad you in college and you ain't pregnant and on drug. >> you don't have to worry about me getting pregnant. >> i made sure not call my mom that i was doing it, because it was a very difficult time for her as well.

>> mom, i'm gay. >> so i think what i learned in the process of writing that episode was that i wasn't the hero, and she wasn't the villain. >> mom, why are you crying? >> i just -- i don't want life to be hard for you. >> it's a moment and a time i'll never forget, just writing that scene exactly as a remember it. and of course, the fast forward to be sit ago cross from angela bassett and reliving that moment. >> i'm happy for you. >> for us to win the emmy for that, it was like a dream. >> aziz ansari and lena waithe -- [ applause ] >> and when that did happen and for me to give that speech, i knew it was bigger than i was.

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>> have you ever been called a [ bleep ]? >> many times. >> well, now i have too apparently once. >> julia louis-dreyfus played selena meyer, vice president of the united states. not capable but with higher aspirations. >> you do your best. you try to serve the people and then they just [ bleep ] you over. and you know why? because they're ignorant and they're dumb as shit, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is democracy. >> selina meyer is one of my favorite characters on tv, ever. she is so ambitious and so ruthless. >> i'll go put together a list of some fun causes, mom. >> oh, that mom thing. let's not do that here either. >> selena. >> uh. >> ma'am. >> yeah, that's it. >> she feels inconvenienced by being a woman. and it's something that i've never seen a character do before. >> excuse me. >> "enlightened" was a show co-created by laura dern, who co-starred in it. >> you look insane! >> laura dern plays a character

self involved that nobody ever wants to listen to her. >> you think i'm stupid? is that what it is? do you think -- >> that show starts with an absolute wallop where she's having a complete breakdown. >> i won't bury you. i will kill you. >> she eventually gets her job back at this big corporation, but they have her working in the basement. she is trying to be like a whistle-blower and uncover some things about the company that are not great. this was a show about an angry woman before we saw a lot of other shows about angry women. it's a show about corporate dissatisfaction. it's a show about feeling alienated from people around you. i think it was really delving into these things, maybe before people were ready. >> i don't want to freak you out, but i think that i may be the voice of my generation, or at least a voice of a generation. >> "girls" on hbo is very much the vision of lena dunham. it is a show that is simply life as seen through her eyes.

>> seriously, i've never met anyone else who thinks their own life is so [ bleep ] fascinating. i wanted to fall asleep in my own vomit all day listening to you talk about how you bruise more easily than other people. >> "girls" is "sex & the city" for a new generation. it's girls navigating careers not very well. and that's kind of what made it great, and that it wasn't polished like "sex & the city." no. they were in crappy apartments. they were broke. they're dating guys that are treating them poorly, and it's messy. >> what? >> oh my god! oh my god! you're peeing on me! oh, my god. stop it! >> people did not like that it was not glamorous, and it was not aspirational, as we like to say. and we had a main character who was not 90 pounds. that was very upsetting for

people and i think really does say a lot more about people than it says about her. >> why you talk like a white girl? [ laughter ] >> you caught me. i'm rockin' blackface. >> "insecure" comes out a year before "girls" ends. and so it was hailed as like the black "girls." but when you actually watch the show, issa rae introduces us to this awkward black girl and these people who are beautiful on the screen, and yet they're insecure, they're uncomfortable, and that's also part of our humanity. >> i like that. you going to do it with the -- >> what about this? >> you know i can't move in those. >> you're right. >> and today was all about me? >> i say me? >> you never get the impression that the "girls" life was an option for issa and molly. these are women who had to push forward and had to work to establish themselves. >> there hadn't been a show that centered on black women that way since "living single," but this was so much more sophisticated.

>> issa didn't always do the right thing. she didn't always pick the right guy. she didn't always get along with her friends. that's the way real life works and i think the show did the best to reflect that. >> i just want to fast forward to a part of my life when everything is okay. >> at the time the show comes out, you have this moment of like black excellence. there's issa rae and shonda rimes. so you need more storytelling about black people but also black women. >> the question i have for you now is, what are we going to do about it? >> "scandal" is about olivia pope, who is a washington, d.c. fixer, not real caring much about morals. >> pleasure doing business with you. i thank you. my client thanks you, and i hope to never see you again. >> one of the things that "scandal" did is it increased the velocity of the storytelling as far as you could possibly turn the dial. it was really exciting

television. >> i just saw the dirtiest sex tape i have ever seen in my entire life, and it stars his teenage daughter. >> i think there's very few creators in the history of television who have been as successful and prolific as shonda. her story telling is so contemporary. >> how to get away with murder. >> shonda rhimes is the reason why abc owned thursday nights. "grey's anatomy," "scandal" and "how to get away with murder" all created by shonda rhimes. >> it's literally called "scandal." it's called "how to get away with murder." the central characters, you can probably guess where they are on the moral spectrum. >> don't you look at me with that blame in your face. i've spent my whole life protecting him. this is yours. you did this. >> laura linney, i don't think it's crazy to see is one of the greatest actors on the planet. her opportunity to bite off a real anti-hero character was the opportunity of a lifetime. >> and i'm going kill you. i'm going to kill you if you don't tell me. >> no, you won't.

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"battlestar galactica." >> that's the last one. >> aggghhh! >> comedy central is another tv network also looking for talent on the internet. >> no big deal. >> all right. >> she is such a slut. >> yeah? >> yeah. no, no, no, i am too. >> "broad city" is another one of these shows that gave birth on the internet that eventually got put onto mainstream television. it was the creation of ilana glazer and abbi jacobson and came to attention of amy poehler and eventually on to comedy central. >> i just degraded my friend for you, and i thought we were going to be paid. >> i can pay you in blocks. >> you're not a baby. you're a man. >> no, i'm a baby. >> "broad city" is its own special thing i feel like too. it does some really unique things, one of which is this incredibly intense central relationship between just two women. >> well, hello my fancy girl. >> no, don't. i'm not fancy. i'm disgusting. i went to the bathroom and then

i was going to the bathroom, and then a condom fell out of me. >> it is also like pretty ground breaking on a lot of sex stuff. >> like i still really remember the pegging episode. >> right in the butt. >> the "broad city" ladies really brought to it a new level, those kinds of discussions. ♪ she's the crazy ex-girlfriend ♪ >> no, i'm not. >> rachel bloom started on the internet making parodies and those caught on, and hollywood realized we could probably make a show around this. ♪ she's so broken ♪ >> the situation is a lot more nuanced than that. >> "crazy ex-girlfriend" is a show we have to start with the title because i have to tell you i did not want to watch it at first. it wasn't until it was very clear to me that it was joke about that idea that i waded in and was vastly rewarded.

>> i was in new york. i ran into josh. he made me feel warm inside, like glitter was exploding inside me. then i moved here. i did not move here for josh because that would be crazy, and i am not crazy. >> it's exploring this relationship she has with josh, and it's very unhealthy, and it's a depiction of mental health. but also really fun to watch. ♪ i'm about to get a diagnosis, a diagnosis ♪ >> she writes songd to her own experiences. ♪ my life is about to change ♪ >> and because of that, the show just feels really authentic to her personal life. >> everybody is so dramatic. >> before we melt we got to go. >> "transparent" came out very early on in the streaming era. amazon would have people make pilots, and then they would post the pilot episodes on amazon for people to stream and then vote. and "transparent" was from the second wave of that. >> dad, what are you wearing?

>> i have something to tell you. >> it is the story of a trans woman named maura who comes out to her children. joy soloway based it on their relationship with their own trans parent, and the show was so much more about how her kids deal with it. >> keep your voice down, all right. >> oh, keep our voice down? that's our family religion, right? secrecy. >> i think "transparent" is a show that got a lot of credit for advancing the conversation on trans issues that felt sincere in 2014, and that feels increasingly insincere with every year that passes, and now its legacy is kind of tarnished. >> actor jeffrey tambor is leaving the show after being accused of harassment. according to the website deadline, allegations were made by two of tambor's transgender colleagues. tambor insists the claims are untrue. >> also the fact he was cast to

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[theme music] [key and peele theme] ♪ every decade has at least one or two great sketch comedy shows. "key & peele" is one of them for this decade. >> texas a&m. >> university of wisconsin. >> a lot of what they did was around race, stereotypes, things that people normally don't talk about them. and not only did they talk about them, they made them funny. one sketch was at the time when everybody was making zombie movies. and the zombies are avoiding

them because the zombies are racist. >> ain't that some [ bleep ]? >> these are some racist mother -- zombies. >> and they start to figure out oh, wait, wait. you're going to walk by me like that? >> what is that? they seriously wouldn't let her eat us. >> mocking the idea of race and racism, but in a really sharp and unpredictable way. >> i just want to say to my critics, i hear your voices and hear your concerns. >> maybe if you could chill out the hell out for a second, maybe i could focus on some shit, you know? >> one of the best things they're known for is luther, the anger translator where jordan peele would play president obama and michael keegan key would play his angry translator. >> i have a hot diggity doggity birth certificate, you dumb ass cracker. >> okay. luther? >> dial it back, luther, damn >> obama knew he couldn't be the angry black man. all he could do is roll with the punches. >> we do need to stay focused on some big challenges like climate change.

>> hey, listen y'all, if you haven't noticed, california is bone-dry. >> there was this really incredible moment at the white house correspondents' dinner when obama brought out keegan-michael key as the anger translator. >> what about our kids? what kind of stupid, shortsighted irresponsible -- >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> it turns out barack obama lit it up. >> jon stewart decided to leave "the daily show" in 2015 which was just as donald trump was coming up. there was so much speculation about what was going to replace him. and then it ended up with ptrevr noah, this relatively unknown south african comedian. what he did is came in and really brought a totally different perspective to the show. >> south african president is sounding a lot like donald trump, see that, sir? like xenophobia, with just a dash of diplomacy, which is also the title of paula dean's new book. >> the nighttime host that made us laugh in the trump era were

veterans of "the daily show." >> our main story tonight, and i cannot believe i'm saying this is donald trump. and i say that, i say that knowing that every time his name is said out loud, he has a shattering orgasm. >> "last week tonight" with john oliver is all about activism, but thoroughly researched. he'll pick one subject, drill down on it. >> "net neutrality," the only two words that promise more boredom in the english language are "featuring sting." >> they basically encouraged viewers to be citizens, to pay attention. this isn't just a passive democracy. you have to be involved in it. >> hello, nation! >> when stephen colbert replaced letterman on "the late show," it was a real big transition for him. and it wasn't until he dug back into his political leanings and got opinionated, that's when audiences really started to respond to him. >> you're not the potus, you're the bloatus. you're the glutton with the

button. you're regular gorge washington. you're the presidunce, but you're turning into a real pricktator. >> samantha bee gets her own show. >> let me say one mother to another, do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless --. he listens to you. >> this is a male dominated field. there aren't many women. and we finally have that perspective to counter trump's. and she's great. >> when it comes to allegations of sexual assault, it's like what i say about rat tails. one is too many and absolutely disqualifies you from the supreme court. >> when the brett kavanaugh hearings started on "snl" was matt damon as brett kavanaugh ranting about how much he loves beer. >> boys like beer. girls like beer. i like beer. i like beer! >> in this decade, the show has

moved more and more towards bringing in either former cast members like maya rudolph as kamala harris or just big celebrities. most famously, alec baldwin as donald trump. >> i've turned over all my businesses to my two sons, beavis and butthead. >> the pinched face, and not understanding things, it was perfect. the characters in the trump administration were just a gift to "snl." >> i would like to begin today by apologizing on behalf of you to me. >> melissa mccarthy just conveys this impression of sean spicer, which is just this sort of bulldozer of bluster. >> i think you're really going to like the hillary clinton that my team and i have created for this debate. >> kate mckinnon had numerable roles. she was remarkable as lindsey gram. she was great as rudy giuliani. >> vote for jeff sessions because i will bend over backwards for you, alabama, and

bend over forwards for mr. trump. >> the downtrodden attorney general who could never do anything right for trump. >> good evening. i'm dr. anthony fauci. first, i'd like to thank all the older women in america who have sent me supportive, inspiring, and sometimes graphic emails. >> it all started off by almost a joke. i was being interviewed by a reporter, and they said something like -- >> which actor would you want to play you? here are suggestions i've heard. ben stiller, brad pitt. which one? >> oh, brad pitt, of course. >> these were very difficult, dark moments in our history. "saturday night live" found a way to make us laugh at it. and that was very helpful. >> and in collusion, happy thanksgiving, everybody. >> jeff sessions, everyone. icon, and cultural treasures.

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[theme music] [anthony] choosing what to watch on tv is getting more complicated. choosing what to watch on tv is getting more complicated. internet services such as amazon, hulu, and netflix are launching more and more original programming. >> towards the end of the decade, you're getting these streamers coming in and television fragments.

there's just an abundance. i mean, you can pick your own niche. >> good morning, girls. >> hulu's big show "the handmaid's tale" based on margaret atwood's novel about a dystopian future. america has been split after a civil war. it's now a theocracy run by religious rights. >> you will bear children for them. oh, you are so lucky! >> women are in bondage essentially. when they are of child bearing age, they are put in service of more powerful people to give birth to their babies, whether they want to or not. it's a pretty bleak vision about where we might be headed in terms of women's rights. >> we believe fred micklen to have been central in creating an environment when women that came forward -- >> those mother -- >> when apple tv+ comes, you're thinking what are they going to do? and then you start getting "the morning show" and "ted lasso".

>> kick their butts. >> works for me. on three. one, two, three. >> disney is the latest streaming service competing with current offerings like netflix, hulu, cbs all access and apple tv. >> i thought disney+ was going to take over the world because if you have children, guess what? you've got to get disney+. >> "the mandalorian" is awesome. they've taken the whole "star wars" concept and refined into a western again. they've simplified it. jon favreau is a genius. >> oh, and he came up with baby yoda. >> come on, baby. do the magic hand thing. >> it was a show designed for you to be able to watch it with your parents, your grandparents, your kids, your grand kids. and that was rare, even in the 2010s. >> with the rise of the streamers, there has been an absolute explosion of content, scripted or unscripted. >> i don't want to be a criminal.

i want to be normal. >> "true crime" moved the needle for everybody. it came to the fore as a format that could be reliably counted on to increase viewership. "wild wild country" is something that seemed to come out of nowhere. the footage was unbelievable. you just watched it like that, you know. it had everything. i think that the recent wave of true crime has been based on a desire for almost diy justice. sometimes what you need to fix an injustice is a dogged storyteller, and that's why the best example of the genre is probably "the jinx." ♪ >> there is a twist in "the

jinx" where the perpetrator is caught on tape confessing to the crimes. i remember that confession. everybody was talking about it. >> kill them all of course. >> it's still being talked about. it's still very controversial. but conversation was what the point of it was. >> we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant orenthal james simpson not ilty of the crime of murder. >> "o.j. simpson" made in america" went so far deeper than the melodramatic aspect of the o.j. simpson story. it talked about race. it's going back an awfully long time. it ended up being a much greater examination of certainly los angeles, but also the united states of america. >> i think "o.j.: made in america" is certainly the most powerful docuseries of the decade and maybe the most power television, period, of the decade.

>> and it happened in the same year as ryan murphy's "american crime story" installment about the o.j. simpson trial. >> i did not and could not and would not commit this crime. >> and so here is this story that we were obsessed with, and now here we are obsessed with it again. >> it became this kind of reference point for younger generations to understand the way that those murders and the trial consumed the country and how we, as an audience, turned this into a circus. we couldn't see it at the time, and the series forces us to look at that. >> people are used to learning a lot from television in the form of miniseries. and i think this mixing of somewhat documentary storytelling and the art of scripted storytelling was so compelling. >> i didn't see a lady or hit anyone. >> raymond saw you hit her. >> who's raymond? >> "when they see us" was the

untold story that ava duvernay wanted to bring to the screen next. i think people knew the story of central park five. they thought they did. but to be able to dig deeper and do it through these performances really connected audiences to the story in a way they hadn't before. it turns out you didn't know much about the central park 5 at all. >> "when they see us," a lot of shows were trying to do that, where they were taking an ending that we know, something like "chernobyl" on hbo. >> there is no core. the core exploded. >> you know that show. you know the tragedy of it. but seeing the faces, it becomes a different thing. it's a horror story. >> it's a horror story. >> on the other hand, "watchman" is a show that used both real history and alternate history and wove trauma into a superhero story. >> damon lindelof did an

incredible thing. he took the history of the tulsa massacre then wove it into the tapestry of "the watchmen." that was probably the first time many people learned about the tulsa massacre. it really framed questions about race, white supremacy, and policing via the character played by regina king. a member of the watchman-style police force. >> if you don't want your kids to worry you're a cop, then why are you a cop? >> i think regina king is giving this incredibly assertive and corrective performance. it's like she's fighting bad guys, but she's also fighting hundreds of years of history. >> i got a nose for white supremacy, and he smells like bleach.sleep, so you know all you need for recovery. and you are? i'm an investor...in invesco qqq, a fund that gives me access to... nasdaq 100 innovations like... wearable training optimization tech.

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[theme music] my wife would love this. come next time with your wife. nope. [laughter] i thought maybe people wouldn't wanna watch somebody feed phil my wife would love this. come next time with your wife. nope. >> i thought maybe people wouldn't want to watch somebody be filmed during the pandemic. why would we want to see this schmoe going out and enjoying food in different countries when we can't go anywhere? but you know what i found? it was the opposite. people were desperate for some kind of escape. any good show transports you. "queen's gambit" can transport you to a world that you didn't know. >> son of a bitch.

>> do you think the pandemic had something to do with the fact that we care about jess? or was it just well done? >> "queen's gambit" was a failed movie pitch, and scott frank turned it into an incredible limited series. i think during covid there was a huge fascination for it. in the early days of the pandemic when people had a lot of time on their hands, they became very adventurous. "tiger king" i think was one of the ultimate covid sensations. ♪ >> it was a show that was designed at every step to make you go, holy cow, is that real? >> now i got every animal in one row. >> truth is truly stranger than fiction. you know you have a moment in "z"

zeitgeist when people dress as your characters for halloween. >> we needed something. i remember feeling just desperate. >> pardon me. >> shon do rhymes goes to netflix and does "bridgerton," which is one of the biggest recent success stories on netflix. >> we gave her the ability and scope and scale and budgets to make increasingly big worlds, and we had complete confidence that she could fill them. >> i feel like that needs to be celebrated. >> "schitt's creek" became the ultimate pandemic show. here was a family leaving the big city and going into the wilderness and sort of finding their heart again. that's what every family in a big city wanted to do during the pandemic. >> we're all pitching in these days, dear, like communists or nonunion actors. >> "schitt's creek" is a "beverly hill bylys" in reverse. you have beverly hills going to the hills. >> david! what does burning smell like? >> and this story is about how

the town over time has an effect on these narcissists. >> oh my god. what are you doing? >> well, i was trying to give you a hig -- >> i get the gesture. >> let's just leave it as a gesture. >> let's just leave it. >> the show is capable of very broadcomdy, but also of intensely moving human scenes. >> our lives are like little baby kroes. carried upon a curious wind. >> everybody had a human side and everybody was rewarded in that final episode, and boy did it end up being the perfect show for the pandemic. >> you have these shows that are taking risks, you have shows that would never have been on television 10 years before. >> do you wish i was different? >> donald glover, issa rae, all

these folks who have unique and specific voices are now in your living room. >> clearly she's not a virgin. >> of course i am, that's a mistake. >> it's not a mistake. >> or it's hormonal. >> exactly, pregnancy hormones. >> i'm just honored to be part of the shows that kind of got to be these new voices for people. >> you swear you won't tell anyone? >> i swear, yeah. >> you have "homeland" in 2011, and then 2019 you get "rami." >> i didn't know that you were muslim, muslim. >> yeah. >> somebody that's grown up that was looked at as one of those guys they were scared of in "homeland." that whole decade really, really moved the needle in terms of representation. >> you should probably brace yourself for some light vomiting followed by life-altering hallucinations. >> ah. >> now all the greatest characters are on television, and the audience definitely is on television. >> i look forward to this journey. >> great. >> watch your toes. >> what -- oh --py i think it's the opportunity to tell great stories in a way that doesn't come with preconceived notions

what was tv's supposed to look like or what tv stars are supposed to look like or even what language they're supposed to speak. that great storytelling rules the day. >> so good. how is it so good? >> what time is it? >> it's like daylight already. how did that even happen? >> we just stayed up all night. >> do you want to watch more? >> my vacation day starts now. >> so intense! >> oh my god, so good, okay. >> let's just watch the first episode of season two, that's all i want to see. >> one more season. >> i can't remember the last time i've gone to the bathroom. >> my legs are like asleep. >> it literally feels like i have a bladder infection, but i'm going to get that after the next episode.