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2019 has entered the countdown and soon we will start the next decade.

Reviewing the TV industry in the past ten years, you can call it “the peak of television”, “the second golden age”, or “the era of excess.” However, television itself as a medium has been degraded in the past decade.

The era of drama, global distribution, the voice of women… The latest release of Disney+ may indicate that the competition in the video field will spread from traditional TV to streaming media in the next decade.

The Time of Cross-Time Zone Tracing Started by Downton Manor

At the beginning of the last decade, the British began to indulge in Downton Manor, and the Americans across the Atlantic quickly followed, limited to global distribution restrictions. The Americans’ tracing rhythm was slow for several months.

This is the first time that the American audience has been out of touch with the British drama. This story has happened many times since then. In addition, later “killing Eve”, “Detective Sherlock”, “Delhi Girl”, “London Life”, “Love Island”, “British Baking Competition” and other episodes (variety), also trying to spread the influence across the Atlantic.

Similarly, the British audience also had to overcome the time zone restrictions on the road of chasing the drama, so that they often brushed up the game of power in the middle of the night.

For TV shows, jumping out of the area limits has become a global explosion, always a huge challenge. In the past ten years, the entertainment industry has exploded, and the cross-time zone pursuit has changed from individual behavior to global commercialization.

Since 2019, major film studios and streaming media have tried to find new solutions to get good content online at the same time. As a result, the TV industry has become a whole and has never been connected.

The rise of self-directed TV series

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In the past decade, the booming television industry has brought the vision of filmmakers, comedians and countless creative people into the golden age – the new form of television, the rise of self-directed TV series. In this series, most people complete most of their creations, and they are evaluated from multiple dimensions.

likeFX’s “Louis is not easy” is very popular, and Hulu’s “Homecoming” and HBO’s “True Detective” and other American dramas are more difficult to refresh the public’s impression of the TV series.

Either good or bad, the rise of this decade’s self-directed TV series also proves one thing: one can take the core job of multiple video production.

Millennial Generation Voices

“Perhaps I can represent the voice of our generation, at least, it is a voice.”

The TV show “Urban Girl” released in 2012 is easily used by the public to compare with “Sex and the City.” It’s all produced by HBO. It’s a story of four girls in New York. There is some natural connection between them. After that, countless episodes began to touch the theme.

In the past decade, the TV series focusing on “female friendship” has once again shown a blowout. This “progress” seems to come too late, and it seems that it is too far away.

“Urban Girl” is by no means the only work to explore women’s friendship, “Ayutthaya chick”, “Uneasy feeling”, “Women’s fearlessness”, “Amy Schumer’s inner world”, “Ex-mad girlfriend”, “Women’s self-improvement”, etc. It has given us more entertainment, and is more than ever willing to explore topics such as the initiative of the 20th and 30th-year-old contemporary women and the affirmative narrative. Different from “Sex and the City”, these TV series will also think about the female predicament under the patriarchal society, focusing on the flash and embarrassment of the protagonist.

Although “Urban Girls” did not directly influence the trend of later female works, the creator Lena Dunham promptly determined a correct time and laid the foundation for the latecomers to further explore under this topic. Her efforts have yielded results and will continue to have far-reaching implications in the future.

When the drama is in progress

The DVD Party may not agree with the phrase “streaming to create dramas”, but no one can deny that Netflix’s “House of Cards” makes “煲剧” swiftly popular.

Back in February 2013, this episode starring Kevin Spacey marks the official involvement of Netflix in original production. Once released, the public is shocked: a whole season is released, so addictive .

At the end of the year, “House of Cards” brought millions of new users to Netflix and won nine Emmy nominations, including the best drama series. Since then, “Development Blocked” and “The Hemlock Grove” have also won the first online original contestants at the Emmy Awards.

The emergence of “House of Cards” has completely changed the business model of streaming media services, ushered in the massive quality episodes of this decade. If it is not “House of Cards”, there will be no “fantasy story” and “women’s prison”, and even there will be no “Netflix and Chill” trend (American buzzwords can refer to “about a friend’s play”).

A single-player TV series rewritten by American Horror Story

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