The golden era of television is dead and buried, murdered by streaming services that blew up the cable bundle, carved up once-monolithic audiences, and now feed us a steady drip of mediocre content designed to be consumed as the blurry backdrop to your smartphone screen (says the guy currently watching Suits on Netflix). A recent Slate article dubbed our current television era “Trough TV,” but out of that dystopian hellscape, a new golden era may be emerging, all thanks to an unlikely source.
