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"This brisk, blistering account of how streaming has changed where we put our eyeballs is classic binge-worthy reading. I had no idea the people involved in creating culture-altering shows are as entertaining as the shows themselves, but Peter Biskind did, and you'll never look at them same way again."-Steven Soderbergh Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of television, sparked by the fall of play-it-safe network TV and the rise of boundary-busting cable, followed by streaming, which overturned both-based on exclusive, candid, and colorful interviews with executives, writers, showrunners, directors, and actors We live in the era of "Peak TV," in which television has seized the entertainment mantle from movies and dominates our leisure time. How-and why-did this happen? Just as he looked at the renegade filmmakers of the 1970s in his bestselling classic Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and at the rise of independent films in the 1990s in Down and Dirty Pictures, now acclaimed cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his sharp-eyed attention to the so-called "golden age of television" in his latest, PANDORA'S BOX: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV (William Morrow; on sale November 7, 2023; 384 pages, $32.50; ISBN 978-0-06-299166-9). Instead of focusing on one service, like HBO, PANDORA'S BOX asks, "What did HBO do, besides give us The Sopranos?" The answer: It gave us a revolution. The Sopranos marked the beginning of the turn away from play-it-safe network TV, ushering in an era of boundary-busting cable shows like Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Americans, and more. Biskind bites off a big chunk of entertainment history, following HBO from its birth into maturity, moving on to the basic cablers like FX and AMC, and ending with the streamers and their wars, pitting Netflix against Amazon Prime Video, Max, and the killer pluses-Disney, Apple TV, and Paramount.

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