Too Dark and Offbeat for Prestige TV: the US Founding

Why our founding history hasn’t made good television—yet

I think a lot about why there’s no decent-quality TV development of founding-era US history. I mean something on the level of “Game of Thrones,” “The Wire,” “Rome,” “Atlanta,” “The Crown,” “The Leftovers,” “Shtisel,” “Girls,” “Deadwood”—pick your poison. If you hate all those shows, you won’t get my point. If you like even one or two of them, you’ll kno…