Book Review
Book Review: A gloriously gossipy tell-all on the demise of television as we know it
Dynamic, droll, and punchy tome traces the journey from high point of cable television to the slippery slope of the streamers
You’ve recommended a TV show to your friend. He’s intrigued, but upon learning it’s not on Netflix, his eyes glaze over. He won’t watch it. You can’t blame him: one can’t own all the streamers.
Peter Biskind, writer of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, explains how this unedifying era for television came about. Pandora’s Box charts the course from the early days of prestige television to the streaming era, which, rather than making our TV consumption ...