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The 2010s were, without a doubt, a transformative time for television.
The number of TV shows and ways in which we watched them exploded on an unprecedented level.
We had a handle on how to get rid of the stuff that didnt spark joy.
Even if youre the One, theres no way you’re able to stream this many damn episodes.
Every end-of-decade retrospective about the medium even our own!
As much as the TV landscape transformed, its remarkable how much didnt change at all.
In the decades first couple of years, 3-D TV seemed like the future of television.
By 2017,3-D TV was dead.
In 2011,Nielsen estimated that number at 96.7 percent.
Yes, the ways in which people watch shows has changed, but the television itself hasnt gone anywhere.
Now consider the content.
But a lot of shows that were on the airwaves when this decade dawned havent gone away.
NBC offered its own version of a mysterious-plane-crash series in the form ofManifest.
The beginning of the decade said,Lostis dead.
The second half of it responded, Long liveLost.
Did Steve Carell leaveThe Office?
Yes, that is a fact.
But is he also kind of still on it, 24/7?
But as 2019 winds down and we head toward 2020, Oprah is still part of the TV landscape.
She has her own online grid, OWN, with critically acclaimed shows likeQueen SugarandDavid Makes Man.
(And a new season is coming in January 2020.)
This is what that song fromThe Lion Kingabout the circle of life and whatnot is all about.
What does all of this portend for 2030?
I have no idea.
Who even knows what TV will be by then?
Guys like Homer Simpson and Michael Scott?
They never go away.
