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I've had this on the shelf since our family watched Buffy together and I worried it was too violent for the younger who was maybe 11 or 12 at the time. Now I'm are watching The Wire with him at 16. Sepinwall's book is a great history of the shifts in televisions writing traced through many series. It's affirming the series I loved (BtVS, The Wire, Friday Night Lights) but also the ones I found uneven and why (Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men) but best of all it informs me on why I stopped watching shows like 24 and Lost and The Sopranos and let's me figure out what happened without having to watch till their ends. It puts forth an auteurist argument for the white male show runners that is too reductive and often more than a little fawning, but given the boatload of quotes he got (this is a well written book of reportage by a career journalist and critic) I can understand why he didn't go there. Also, my edition was published in 2015, before Joss Whedon was de-pedestalized (yes, it is a word, because I said so) but has, I think, been updated since. Still, compelling and devourable to read.