"A loving and breezy set of essays" on today's most addictive TV shows from "an incisive and hilarious critic" (Slate).

Television is not what it once was. Award-winning author and critic Clive James spent decades covering the medium, and witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming, and in the very manner in which TV is watched.

Here he examines this unique cultural revolution, providing a brilliant, eminently entertaining analysis of many of television's most notable twenty-first-century accomplishments and their not always subtle impact on modern society -- including such acclaimed serial dramas as Breaking Bad, The West Wing, Mad Men, and The Sopranos and the comedy 30 Rock. With intelligence and wit, James explores a television landscape expanded by cable and broadband and profoundly altered by the advent of Netflix, Amazon, and other cord-cutting platforms that have helped to usher in a golden age of unabashed binge-watching.

"James loves television, he loves the winding stories it tells and that we share them together. Play All is a late love letter to the medium of our lives." -- Sunday Times

"Large-brained and largehearted, and written with astonishing energy." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Witty and insightful musing on popular and critically acclaimed series of the past two decades." -- Publishers Weekly

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