The creator of HBO’s The Sopranos television series lamented that the current state of modern television is “getting worse.”
David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos, suggested that the 25th anniversary of the series this year ought to be considered “a funeral” for the state of television.
“We are more into multitasking,” Chase said in an interview with the Times. “We seem to be confused and audiences can’t keep their minds on things, so we can’t make anything that makes too much sense, takes our attention, and requires an audience to focus. And as for streaming executives? It is getting worse. We’re going back to where we were.”
Chase also explained how he had tried working on a project related to a high-end escort but was told to “dumb it down.”
The show, released in 1999, provided a shot in the arm for scripted television series, which Chase said was “a s***hole” upon release. However, the show only provided a “25-year blip,” and other people in the television industry are feeling the same way.
“So, it is a funeral,” Chase said. “Something is dying.”
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Chase added that before the release of The Sopranos, television executives would always ask to remove “the one thing that made an episode worth doing.” But once these executives watched his show, it made them “regret all their decades of stupidity and greed.”
The Sopranos debuted on HBO on Jan. 10, 1999, and ended its run after six seasons in 2007.
