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The Sopranos was a groundbreaking work of genius... so why does its creator think it would not be made today? According to David Chase the golden age of television is dead, writes BRIAN VINER
Tony Soprano was a monster. But then he was raised by a monster, his psychotic mother Livia, who once tried to have him killed.
And Breaking Bad in turn spawned Better Call Saul, also a TV classic, with yet another anti-hero in the form of Bob Odenkirk's scheming, bent lawyer, real name Jimmy McGill. Succession, the operatic tale of a squabbling media dynasty, which cleaned up in last month's Emmy awards, also hinges on a thoroughly unpleasant but compelling lead in Logan Roy, the profane autocrat inhabited wonderfully by Brian Cox. Adapted from Anthony Doerr's bestselling novel by the award-winning Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight (which is a surprise, because it might equally have been written by algorithm), it is handsome enough on the eye, but clunky and cliché-strewn.
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