How did soap opera series go from being a big movie? Telling in Episode 5 of The Caretaker podcast

Even at the end of the 20th century, directors and actors working in serials were considered representatives of the lower caste. But today these projects are not inferior to big cinema either in budgets or in the quality of filming. Lifehacker's film critic Alexei Khromov talks about the turning points in the development of serials that turned "housewife entertainment" into high art.

01:50 - Did you know that the series began to be filmed even before the advent of television? The history of the first such projects on radio and cinema.

03:05 - why in the eighties episodes of television series resembled "sausages in production."

05:43 - what was happening at that time with the television of the Soviet Union.

07:15 - how David Lynch, not knowing how to shoot TV shows, changed the television industry. And what went wrong in Twin Peaks season 2.

10:40 - about "Game of Thrones" - a series that showed that quality and budgets are important.

12:40 - how streaming services influenced the filming of TV series and why the success of House of Cards changed the format for releasing seasonal projects.

14:43 - what top directors are now working on TV series and what are their projects good for.

17:50 - why the classic "soap" is still on air and how such serials are filmed.

What to see on the topic? We've collected the series that were mentioned in the podcast:

• «Guiding light», Creator - Irna Phillips, 1952-2009.
• "Seventeen Moments of Spring", director - Tatiana Lioznova, 1973.
• «Twin Peaks”, Creators - David Lynch and Mark Frost, 1990–2017.
• The Kingdom, directed by Lars von Trier, 1994-1997.
• «Game of Thrones», Creator - David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, 2011–2019.
• House of Cards, creator - Beau Willimon, 2013–2018.
• Big Little Lies, Created by David E. Kelly, 2017-2019.
• «Sharp objects", Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, 2018.
• «Young Pope", Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, 2016.
• «Mind hunter», Creator - Joe Penhall, 2017–2019.

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