Beyond both helping the Tampa Bay Buccaneers win a Super Bowl, Jon Gruden and Tom Brady have more in common. They both believe that current NFL offenses are being “dumbed” down for young quarterbacks.
If you want to understand how prestige TV (an imperfect term, but bear with me) has changed over the last 25 years, it makes sense to start with the series that invented the category as we know it ...
But the similarities end there. Even when you account for the fact that The Sopranos was an irreplicable masterpiece, The Penguin is a dumbed-down disappointment that speaks to an industry-wide ...