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Hi, my name is Willie Staley and I'm a story editor for the New York Times Magazine.
This week's Sunday Read is an article I wrote for the magazine that originated out of a hunch, one I had about television.
The TV shows these days are generally bad, or they're not as good as they used to be, at least to me, that there's been this noticeable degradation in quality.
I'd bring this up at our magazine's ideas meetings.
Maybe I sounded a little like a crank, but it was a fixation of mine that was bothering me for years.
There'd be these shows that everyone loved and everyone wrote about, and I'd watch them just mystified.
And I liked tv.
Gone was the era defined by these prestige series like the Sopranos, Mad Men, or Breaking Bad.
Instead, they've been replaced with abundance, seemingly limitless libraries of content that you can passively put on in the background.
And it seemed like a moment to step back and say, time out.
How did we get here?
For a long time, this is pretty impossible to answer, because streaming services are famously protective of their viewership data.