In 2015, FX CEO John Landgraf coined the term “Peak TV” to describe the rising number of scripted television series in the US. The entertainment industry instantly embraced this term, as “Peak” stuck for many reasons:”Peak” captured the rapid proliferation of high-quality television programming. “Peak” implied that this era of programming abundance was temporary and would eventually decline. From 2013 to 2022, each week brought a new high-caliber prestige show: Succession, Severance, Fleabag, Squid Game, Stranger Things, The Crown, Ted Lasso, The Handmaid’s Tale, Wednesday, Bridgerton, and this short list is merely an amuse-bouches. It was gloriously unsustainable—and wow, was it fun.
Origen: The Rise and Fall of TV’s Golden Age – by Daniel Parris
