When I first realized that he was changing the rendition every season, it irritated me.
#Got yourself a gun sopranos intro series#
The Wire (insert ritual genuflection here to the Greatest TV Series Ever, a brilliant sociological dissection of a decaying urban world) had a great song. (If I remember correctly, James Atlas wrote a Times Magazine piece a couple of decades ago contending that TV dramas have in large part taken the place of those baggy social novels for the most part, that's where our culture now collectively absorbs an artist's ambitious attempts to trace an entire society in fiction.) If you watch a credit sequence every night, you develop feelings about it. I'm not an omnivorous TV watcher I tend to come to a television series after everyone else has raved and ranked it, which means I end up watching in huge gulps, staying up night after night, greedy for what happens next, the way I used to read Dickens or Tolstoy. Of course, I get it: spinning wheels within wheels, complicated gears turning, everyone's all busy trying to win power. And I'm bored out of my mind with the credit sequence. The prosecutor likes the wars and murders I like the evil intrigue and hints of weird magic. We've discovered Game of Thrones, and are now midway through the second season. So today I want to offer up a far more serious topic: television shows' credit sequences. A presidential commission confirmed the birthfamilies' stories.
And you?" "Oh, learned more about that Sierra Leone story in which four-year-olds were kidnapped for American adoption. Dude smashed her face into a zillion pieces with a mallet. "Hi, honey, how was your day?" "Saw some autopsy photos.
(Speaking of which, having family dinner conversation about your day can be a bit strained when one parent is a prosecutor who focuses on murder, child rape, and sexual assault, and the other is a journalist drawn to social injustice and evil deeds generally. We've been talking all kinds of heavy-duty topics lately, haven't we? Rape, anti-gay violence, fistulas-the kinds of things things that you might not want to bring up at your family's dinner table.