Seems to me one of the more interesting aspects about the entertainment business is how stories in TV and movies have changed in the last twenty years. When I was in High School (early 1970’s) I would go to movies and the stories would be intelligent and well thought out. At that time, tv shows usually had thin to non-existent stories. What stories they did have were very formulaic.

Nowadays, it’s the reverse. TV shows can be very involved stories that challenge the viewer just to follow the plot. (Game of Thrones, Homeland, etc) While movies now are based on comic books or over the top hero stories. Most movies I’ve seen in the last 5 years have stories that are so thin that it’s shocking they got made into movies.