Ah, the golden era of television. We all know when it was, around the turn of the century, when HBO gave the world The Sopranos and The Wire and everything was generally just a bit better – Trump was a comparably harmless if highly irritating real estate mogul and the most impressive thing you could do with your phone was play Snake.
Since then, there have of course been brilliant shows popping up over the years – Breaking Bad, Succession, Mad Men – but there have also been long stretches of “meh, nothing special” TV in between. That’s why it’s so exciting that we currently seem to be in a purple patch of great telly, from the pressure-cooker medical drama The Pitt to the return of biting satire like Beef.
