Michael Schulman reviews “Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV,” by Peter Biskind, and “Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood,” by Maureen Ryan.
What happened? One answer is what always happens: golden ages never last. Just look at the New Hollywood of the late nineteen-sixties and seventies, which gave us such boundary-pushing classics as “Midnight Cowboy,” “The Godfather,” and “Taxi Driver.
Showrunners flocked to this newfound haven of creative freedom, which seemed willing to throw money at something weird or dark. “Before you knew it, you had a revolution within the revolution,” Biskind writes.
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