The Rise and Fall of AMC (TV Channel)

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Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead. With these three shows, AMC created a massive wave of success for themselves over a decade ago. But now, they seem to have flamed out a bit. Better Call Saul aside, their line up is mostly mediocre zombie product like Fear The Walking Dead. In this video, I go into what I think happened.
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@captainmidnight 3 года назад

What is your favorite (or least favorite) AMC show of all time? Go to brilliant.org/Midnight/ and sign up for free.

@johnbarrientosiii6586 3 года назад

@xavierthevoid 3 года назад

Into the Badlands is my shit

@javierlandaverde4108 3 года назад

Favorite: Hell on Wheels

@jamescopenhaver720 3 года назад

Into the badlands is amazing, so underrated imo

@abramsullivan7764 3 года назад

Most favorite: Breaking Bad Least favorite: The Walking Dead

@AlbertoFolres 3 года назад

At one point Mad Men, The Walking Dead & Breaking Bad were premiering new episodes the same year

@grantlong6586 3 года назад

Keep in mind that same year mtv had teen mom, 16 & pregnant, and true life: I'm pregnant. AMC never had a chance.

@thedungeoneer33 3 года назад

That was peak television

@barnacleboi2595 3 года назад

Legendary

@charlieuetz2539 3 года назад

Walking dead has sucked ass since the end of season 1

@pikebasss 3 года назад

@Radical Larry Walking Dead held up pretty well until season 6, and then eventually dropped off the side of a cliff when Glen died.

@mr.moviemafia 3 года назад

At least they’ve still got Better Call Saul, but even that amazing show is about to end soon so......

@jn3440 3 года назад

Well Saul is getting a spin off

@Unqualifiedmedicalperson 3 года назад

Until Vince Gillian makes another show 🤞

@chriseleftheriadis9379 3 года назад

@Uncle HoI think we should thank Sony for that and not AMC

@ПавелПовх-з3у 3 года назад

Does it really? Its also on netflix.

@colinharris9881 3 года назад

True I really liked breaking bad but better call Saul is just on another level imo

@Panimal98 3 года назад

AMC was THE channel for quality writing and decent production value, right after HBO. Now it's just a cesspool of zombified remains, and that's depressing.

@user-cs1ep6jj2o 3 года назад

I don't think anyone could catch up with HBO at this point.

@Panimal98 3 года назад

@@user-cs1ep6jj2o Disney+ pretty much already has in terms of production value and viewership, at least.

@user-cs1ep6jj2o 3 года назад

@@Panimal98 They haven't made anything besides Marvel or Star wars. But so far their quality is pretty good, but just not HBO level tho. We'll see what happens once they introduce more original IPs.

@Panimal98 3 года назад

@@user-cs1ep6jj2o The production quality is through the roof, and viewership numbers are the highest in the world per episode. That alone easily puts them on par with HBO Max.

@user-cs1ep6jj2o 3 года назад

@@Panimal98 There's only 3 shows so far. And neither of them were original IPs. They're pre established, so obv they'll have a lot of viewers. In terms of budget, it matches up to HBO. But in terms of quality, I don't think so. Not for a while, it may or may not change in the future. So far, HBO is still at the top and they're dominating the Emmys basically like every year.

@OneAndOnlyYesMan 3 года назад

Also it’s worth taking into account that Mad Men and Breaking Bad are both co-productions. Whereas AMC owns The Walking Dead in its entirety, which explains why they were far more hands on that show.

@thomassantino392 3 года назад

You mean why they fucked up that show

@BlazingOwnager 3 года назад

One man destroyed that show. Scott Gimple. All blame falls at his feet. It had a few problems before him but he drove it into the most amateur hour thing EVER. Kang's production value is what the show should have been. Seriously not even just the CGI Deer, that scene where someone was shooting a .50 Cal at Rick in a Jeep and little pew-pew sparks flying off the glass.... wow. The internet literally fixed the scene within 12 hours, and that's pretty sad. PS: The show IMMENSELY improved post-Gimple before he went to reboot Fear into a monologuing dumpster fire.

@spinks1369 3 года назад

@@BlazingOwnager Gimple was a disaster. And they promoted him for it 🙄

@blackdragon6 2 года назад

Exactly 💯

@blackdragon6 2 года назад

@@spinks1369 he was a yes man, but he also wrote some of the better episodes of the early seasons. The problem was that he wasn't really running the show. AMC was, and he was just doing what he was told and got promoted for his obedience I guess 🤷🏾‍♂️.

@Psilocybin77 3 года назад

Actor Sam Witwer worked with Frank Darabont on “The Mist”. He tells a story about how Frank Darabont wanted to do an episode following a soldier as all hell breaks loose, a Blackhawk Down with zombies. That soldier would become the zombie Rick encounters in the tank. Instead, AMC cut the budget for “TWD”, and fired Frank Darabont before season 2. That says a lot about the leadership at AMC. To have no confidence in the vision of Frank Darabont, that’s just stupid in my opinion and is a signifier of what would come.

@gothbossbaby 3 года назад

This. I have always said this exact decision to part ways with Frank Darabont was a massive mistake. While I still really enjoy the show and still watch it today, the writing and atmosphere throughout Season 1 was unreal and an arc focused on the downfall of Atlanta wold have been a massive success. Sam Witwer is fantastic and every time I rewatch the tank scene in episode one I can't help but picture a flashback to how the tank zombie ended up there in the first place.

@whosaidthat84 3 года назад

I remember hearing about this. The brass always acts like they know what's best when they know nothing.

@Psilocybin77 3 года назад

@@gothbossbaby dude Sam describes what Darabont had planned and it is amazing. Look up Sam Witwer walking dead and I’m sure you’d find it and it is worth watching. It is a fascinating insight by a very articulate actor. It is so frustrating with how it ends.

@TheFourthWinchester 3 года назад

@@gothbossbaby Ngl, a guy who is still watching TWD after the first few seasons doesn't get the benefit of the doubt in any situation.

@bigbearkat2010 3 года назад

He mentioned he didn't like how Dale's death was handled in the show which can also be traced back to Darabont's firing since his actor Jeffrey DeMunn is pretty good friends with Darabont and I'm pretty sure has had a role just about everything he's done. Naturally keeping DeMunn around after the network publicly and unceremoniously fired his buddy would've been awkward. I still feel like Darabont's firing contributed to Andrea's crappy writing in season 3 because Laurie Holden was also a frequent collaborator with Darabont.

@ThrottleKitty 3 года назад

There was a time when Breaking Bad and early Walking Dead was on AMC and it seemed like it was going to be one of the best channels around going forward. Now it's just where go to make sure they haven't killed Daryl yet.

@cheeseistaken 3 года назад

should have given walking dead the funds it needed serves them right

@andreseh87 3 года назад

@@cheeseistaken Should have pulled it off the air after season 2. Trash is trash.

@bertcompton 3 года назад

Ok, but the Walking dead and better Call Saul are still 2 of the biggest shows on television. They also have AMC+, which is thriving

@TheFourthWinchester 3 года назад

@@bertcompton No, TWD crashed in ratings the last season. That is the only reason AMC is ending it.

@bertcompton 3 года назад

@@TheFourthWinchester the ratings have been going down for years but they are still very high. And that doesn't include all the people who watch on amc+. They always planned to end it at season 11, if it was because of the ratings, they wouldn't have all these spinoffs still happening

@GenerationWest 3 года назад

AMC: WE ARE THE WALKING DEAD!

@fpsliam 3 года назад

@firstname lastname Great show

@Shift_Salt 3 года назад

Haaaaaaaa-AH

@fpsliam 3 года назад

@Pluto N. Uranus It certainly has it's ups and downs but I will always love it

@millabasset1710 3 года назад

@@fpsliam It hasn't been decent since 2013. Seasons 1 and 2 are legendary.

@fpsliam 3 года назад

@@millabasset1710 season 2 was meh. But lately it's been great imo

@AsterDXZ 3 года назад

The Death of AMC: People stopped watching The Walking Dead

@baxatakbaxatak2014 3 года назад

Greg Nicotero was the death of The Walking Dead. That show hasn’t had an actual showrunner since Glen Mazzara. Gimple and Kang are just diehard fans that will run everything up the ladder to Greg. He’s been running this ranch since season 4. This show’s been awful ever since.

@snusemcgoose1001 3 года назад

@@baxatakbaxatak2014 I always thought they should’ve ended it after they fully defeated the Governor, it felt like a good end cap

@riffhousestudios96 3 года назад

@@baxatakbaxatak2014 yes, I remember the newer guy went on the after show Talking Dead and just the way he was talking about it, it was clear he didn’t know what he was doing with the show. Pretty sure he was a religious dude, which explains all the weird ass shit to come.

@Etticos. 3 года назад

The Death of AMC: They fucked up The Walking Dead.

@bobsandwich3431 3 года назад

I feel like the first negan season was where everyone dropped off. Everyone came for who will die first episode and then after a couple people started to realize this sucks. I didn't even watch the final episode of that season.

@goldvondensternen 3 года назад

I’m really enjoying your retrospective “decline/failure of channel/franchise” essays! Any chance you’d cover the rise and fall of USA’s “Blue Sky” era, briefly mentioned in the video? The kind of breezy, colorful dramas they produced don’t seem to exist anymore, and filled a pretty unique niche at the time.

@TheUltraYusuf 3 года назад

Dude I miss blue sky shows so much. I'm not a fan of all these shows being dark and dour.

@TheFourthWinchester 3 года назад

I hated those blue sky shows so much. Nothing mattered in them.

@Com18Alpha 3 года назад

Mr. Robot was the marked transition away from the blue sky. It was the niche show on USA at the time of its first airing.

@eerkes 3 года назад

These type of shows seem to have migrated to the streaming services. Netflix’s Virgin River would have been a USA Network show 10 years ago.

@BigfootUnibrowMan 3 года назад

@@eerkes Even the name is so blue sky, "Virgin River"

@ishaanwankhade4834 3 года назад

When Captain Midnight uploads we all cheer

@Juanhernandez-zx7kt 3 года назад

We boo. 🙃

@jamesmorgan3212 3 года назад

I think it’s AMC’s failure to evolve more than anything. But man I love Better call Saul . Vince Gilligan is just simply brilliant. I will miss it a great deal when it’s over .

@arthas640 2 года назад

They hit gold and like a stubborn prospector in an old western movie they refused to move on and just kept digging in the same hill looking for another rich vein, when they could have just moved on and tried a different hill. It went from one of the most creative networks on TV to being The Walking Dead Channel.

@akshudhavala836 3 года назад

Halt and Catch Fire is criminally underrated. It deserved more viewers

@lattyware 3 года назад

I was going to make this comment, almost word for word. It's so good, and it feels like virtually no one has seen it. The cast is all absolutely incredible.

@anthonyscarborough3813 3 года назад

Idk, man. I watched the first few episodes and it just didn’t grab me like Mad Men did.

@nisanthsuresh6553 3 года назад

Halt and Catch Fire is an extremely amazing but severely underrated show

@akshudhavala836 3 года назад

@@anthonyscarborough3813 yeah it tried to create the mad men vibe in the first season and wasn’t the best. But it only gets better from season 2 and peaks in its last season imo

@kevingrant5744 3 года назад

One of my all time favs. Incredible in every category.

@coconutgun4383 3 года назад

Firing Frank Darabont from the Walking Dead is probably the worst decision they’ve ever made. Season 2 is such a clear decline in quality from Season 1 that it is almost laughable

@tomerohanabentzvi9866 3 года назад

I actually don't think that's true, although i would have loved to see what darabont would have done with the show many people agree that the best of the show was in later seasons... I agree that there is a drop in quality in season 2 but most seasons after that are pretty damn good.

@mraltoid19 3 года назад

16:00 - Missed the opportunity to say that "The whole channel is being steered by Zombies and Lawyers."....which is actually accurate for most of Hollywood.

@CaveDude2003 3 года назад

Into the badlands had some of the best fight choreography ever and it's a damn shame hardly anyone saw it.

@richardfitzwell4618 3 года назад

That's because the show was insanely inconsistent with random story beats thrown in for shock value. Like, MK becoming a villain? Sonny and Widow having powers? Tilda suddenly being bisexual? None of it was consistent with the plot before it.

@peterblood50 3 года назад

Ithought it had a lot going for it but I hate tv where they kill someone and then magically bring them back. Nick Frosts' case was worth it though as he made the show interesting. Emily Beacham was a hot draw as well. But the ending seemed thrown together not unlike "GOT" and "The Last Kingdom".

@kirakira1212 3 года назад

@@richardfitzwell4618 tilda being bisexual felt forced for me too. Other than that, it deserved a season 4 and 5 to finish the second part of the story

@zgama6511 2 года назад

I thought that show was unbearably boring I tried watching the pilot and was falling asleep

@smolcharlie1736 3 года назад

The Terror (series 1) was utterly brilliant, one of the best things I've ever seen, and AMC basically abandoned it. Didn't put it up for any awards or really promote it in any way. Pretty much everyone who saw it when it came out loved it, but that seemed to only happen by chance or because they were already interested in the Franklin expedition. It's good to see it get a bit more recognition now the BBC have aired it, but it feels like too little too late.

@mundaneallaround 3 года назад

Amazing show.

@TheAndrerion 3 года назад

Completely agree with you. The Terror season 1 is among the best series I've ever seen!!

@KaiserMattTygore927 2 года назад

The Terror kicked so much ass.

@TheSpiderbridge 3 года назад

I love your content. My one note: when you mention comics it doesn’t hurt to mention the artist. Kirkman doesn’t draw the comics he’s famous for. There would be no WD without Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard. I draw comics for a living and a ton of the moments you love and showed require collaboration; it sucks to put in so much work and see those choices attributed only to the writer.

@ZekeFreek 3 года назад

You could make the same argument about a lot of things. Most productions "wouldn't be" if not for a lot of key people that go unmentioned. But in this case, mentioning the comic at all was an aside and the artists weren't relevant because they really had nothing to do with the show, whereas Kirkman did pretty directly.

@ZeroSmoke. 3 года назад

I kinda agree with the person who replied to you already, but big ups to you and the other artists who help give us this entertainment. It wouldn't be the same without you guys!

@michaeltudyk8660 2 года назад

Yes but also no.

@michiganjack1337 3 года назад

I remember American Movie Classics and I remember when the History Channel, The Learning Channel and even The Discovery Channel all actually lived up to their namesake

@JB-ym4up 3 года назад

MTV used to play music videos.

@speedracer1945 3 года назад

I remember when it had no commercials and had great movies on it . It slowly evolved into a now the same movies over and over.

@FirstLast-yh7gj 3 года назад

@@speedracer1945 I love The Mist but they show that movie countless times every month lol

@GOCRAZY3 3 года назад

The History Channel has always sucked as far as I remember, it was pretty much just the Hitlery Channel before it transitioned to ‘reality’ tv. Never mind their spreading of racist and just generally anti-human stuff with Ancient Aliens and related programming.

@moeneet7069 3 года назад

almost went my whole ass life not knowing AMC stood for The American Movie Channel....

@nottimhortons 3 года назад

American Movie Classics, actually.

@thesilverhand362 3 года назад

Turn, Into the Badlands, Hell on Wheels, Halt and Catch Fire, Preacher, The Terror (Season 1), and The Son are all amazing AMC shows that deserved more recognition than they received. Loved them all!

@speedracer1945 3 года назад

The Terror was too damn depressing.

@interdimensionalsteve8172 3 года назад

Agreed! Into the Badlands was an especially guilty pleasure. So silly, and yet incredibly entertaining with great characters and Banshee-level action scenes every episode that only got better as the seasons went on.

@007Fusiion 2 года назад

@@interdimensionalsteve8172 That’s the only AMC show I’ve watched from beginning to end. Mad Men, Breaking bad and hell on wheels peaked my interest, though.

@ethanjobson3879 3 года назад

The first time I really noticed the way TWD’s priorities hurt the show was the Alexandria arc. The whole thing that made that story in the comics so different and powerful was the idea “What happens when this group gets ‘normal’ back.” But that couldn’t happen in the show because they felt viewers came for zombies. But that thinking made the show feel boring and repetitive.

@RealHomeRecording 3 года назад

Oh man I would have loved for a few episodes of normalcy and then all hell breaks loose during the season finale. Would've been cool. Ahh well.

@zgama6511 2 года назад

I feel like the show died bc it went from showing people struggling to fight off the dead to 90 percent or more of an episode of just walking or talking and nothing interesting happening whatsoever. It's one of the main reasons I hated season five and the majority of season six like if I can fall asleep for 5 episodes of a season and wake up and still know what's going on without barely any holes in the plot then you're doing something wrong

@damonlongstreet8630 10 месяцев назад

@@zgama6511the show definitely fumbled the switch from surviving to thriving when they arrived at Alexandia

@zgama6511 10 месяцев назад

@@damonlongstreet8630 definitely isn't where the show died though that was definitely around the whisperers time. After season 8 the show just took a nose dive season 9 to 11 feel like a completely different show and that's not a good thing. And that's not even including the fact that you can't even care about the new characters they establish bc they'll just die a season later anyways for little to no reason or they'll pull another Henry and develop a character for a whole season before abruptly killing them off for shock value. That or the new characters just suck lol whether it's the actor, the writing or both so many new characters are just annoyances when the writers want them to be likable.

@screenplaybyjamesgarcia6299 3 года назад

People hated Preacher because it wasn't like the comic. I never read the comics and I loved the show from the pilot to the finale. Afterwards, I read the comics and I understand why people didn't like Preacher during its first season, but I implore you, comic read or not, just give it a shot and go along with its crazy-ass premise.

@ilznidiotic 3 года назад

I tried, I seriously did. As a rabid fan of the comics, I wanted SO bad to like this. While it did improve in the second season, it just never grabbed me. It was always kind of a chore to watch.

@elmandarin1002 3 года назад

The Boys was better and it’s another work from Garth Ennis and produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. But the TV show does improve over the comic but the comic is still worth a read and is great in its own right.

@nievesofficial 3 года назад

I loved the comics and show for their own reasons, the comic is better but that’s only natural considering they could get away with so, so much more on paper than a tv show on a non-paid channel. I’m still glad it got a tv adaption, I’ll always be grateful it exists

@penancethemutantgirl2935 3 года назад

Wasn't Preacher based on DC Comics?

@BlazingOwnager 3 года назад

I still need to watch the comics but I enjoyed that show, even if the ending was a little uneven. For a while I had this great back-to-back TV night of Preacher and Ash Vs Evil Dead. RIP to both of them.

@Mysterey101 3 года назад

Great vid, Cap. I was a sophomore/ junior in hs when Mad Men / BB premiered and was immediately hooked on BB like you werr after the 1st episode premiere. I may be alone in this, but I'd love to see a similar channel retrospective like this one done on USA network. How they went from early 2000s original cult sci-fi classics like The Dead Zone & The 4400, while syndicating The Outer Limits, to the huge content tonal shift once the, as you termed, "light-hearted procedural" shows like Psych, Burn Notice, etc really blew up for them. Appreciate you and your content, always. Thankyou

@dreamlandnightmare 3 года назад

I was a boy, but I remember when AMC was commercial-free and showed nothing but classic (mostly 30s-60s) pre-80s movies (it fostered my appreciation of old movies).

@BigfootUnibrowMan 3 года назад

Isn't there a channel TCM or something that does that now? My grandpa watches it all the time.

@lisalindsey277 3 года назад

@@BigfootUnibrowMan TCM (Turner Classic Movies) is still old movies with no commercials. Movie buffs and old people love it.

@lisalindsey277 3 года назад

Cable TV in the early days used to be totally commercial -free. That was the benefit of spending $$$ on cable. No commercials. Today's cable has an insane amount of commercials plus you pay more and more.

@510Sekhon 3 года назад

AMC should have kept Comic Book Men going. Such a great show

@aappaapp6627 3 года назад

just got hit with an ancient memory lol

@platnumbreaker 3 года назад

I remember staying up just to watch it after talking dead (which I always skipped)

@willissudweeks1050 3 года назад

Bry and Walt would be happy to see this.

@Trunkline97 3 года назад

@@willissudweeks1050 not Walt lol he hated doing the show.

@hcstubbs3290 3 года назад

If you only watched Preacher season 1, you didn't really experience what Preacher became. It was wild.

@johncliffalvarez6513 3 года назад

I absolutely miss, “Into The Badlands...” I’ve watched every single episode and was stoked to see where it would lead. Once I found out that it was being cancelled, I was crushed.

@BugsyFoga 3 года назад

I'm more of a AMC theater kind of guy .

@grantlong6586 3 года назад

Those are going downhill too wanda group sold off a bunch of thier controlling stake in amc which means they probably aren't going to have the funds to survive without doing alot of downsizing

@tylerking4576 3 года назад

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@Werelight 3 года назад

@@tylerking4576 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀

@severencrawley8955 3 года назад

🦍

@johnnylarios98 3 года назад

STONKS

@NikkiMKarLen 3 года назад

"TURN: Washington's Spies" season 3 is the best thing from 2016.

@colin6829 3 года назад

Lodge 49 was one of my favorite show ever. It was the only show I got excited about every week. The character where awesome and the story made me want to learn more about the world. I miss it so much

@ryankeefe6222 3 года назад

I’m just going to outright say it Hell on Wheels is massively underrated

@newb431 3 года назад

Came to the comments looking for a kindred spirit...

@TheHonoredMadman 3 года назад

Facts. While it's not perfect, I loved it almost as much as deadwood

@ryankeefe6222 3 года назад

@@TheHonoredMadman I used to call it the best show nobody watched

@gail1879 3 года назад

One of my top 5. Loved it.

@peterblood50 3 года назад

I enjoyed it. I was looking for a western as a change of pace and there it was. Seemed like they wound it up kind of funky as I remember, but hey...

@YodaSmokes 3 года назад

Oh hello. I clicked on this video while my phone was in my pocket. But don’t worry, I’m here to stay.

@seancollins7447 3 года назад

I hate bring this up again but I would still like to see a director profile of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

@officialhoovtube 3 года назад

"I like your funny words, magic man!"

@seancollins7447 3 года назад

@@officialhoovtube still you want a Phil Lord and Chris Miller profile video, right?

@coop4 3 года назад

I’m currently rewatching the walking dead with a girlfriend who’s never seen it and watching the new episodes at the same time. It’s really hard to believe I’m watching the same show with how bad the new episodes are

@Psilocybin77 3 года назад

Sitting here thinking about it, nobody should support this network for what they did to Frank Darabont. The man is one of the most talented artists and storytellers working today. If studios won’t support real talent like this, and choose people like Kurtzman and Abrams instead, we’ll just have more brain dead stories. I can’t support that kind of thinking.

@johncorr7154 3 года назад

It's funny for me that AMC's decline along other cable channels is due to streaming services, as I watched AMC's shows pretty much exclusively on Netflix. I watched a lot of their shows in Middle School, and Binging Mad Men and Breaking Bad took up a lot of time and I'm quite nostalgic for it. I anticipate to finish Better Call Saul when S5 is released on Netflix, and long after that when S6 airs and is put on as well.

@TJKats 3 года назад

Glad to see the Rubicon love. That is always my answer for best show nobody saw or what do you wish had more seasons.

@johnobrien2643 3 года назад

I couldn't help but be reminded of Rubicon when that ship got stuck in the Suez Canal...

@blankname6629 3 года назад

I liked rubicon as well.

@444other 3 года назад

I feel like Turn was super Underrated, I loved that show

@EE-jp5ev 3 года назад

Same!!

@louisduarte8763 3 года назад

My family and I caught up on all of it on Netflix last year. After we got through Stranger Things.

@johncunningham8213 3 года назад

I loved that show. It didn't run for countless seasons eventually falling in on itself which a lot of shows tend to do when they run too long. But I'm also a history nerd.

@EE-jp5ev 3 года назад

@@johncunningham8213 i think your enjoyment of history is going to determine how much you enjoy it, for sure lol

@williamcoughlin3666 3 года назад

TURN was a great show, and it was satisfying how they wrapped it all up after season 4 rather than just leaving it with only 3 seasons.

@davidwurst7081 3 года назад

My friends in middle school and I would get together every Sunday to catch episodes of the Walking Dead back in it's hay day. Those were some good times

@sidneyabramson9047 3 года назад

I can only dream of watching the amount of TV that you do. Teach me!

@HispanicNach0s 3 года назад

I would love some Captain Midnight discussions on Better Call Saul. I need something to hold me over till the final season comes out!

@joshprice7527 3 года назад

wake up babe, a new captainmidnight video dropped

@Gemnist98 3 года назад

Breaking Bad was my favorite pandemic watch, and I completely forgot about that Skyler confronting Jesse scene. I always thought their first meeting was the dinner scene from Season 5.

@johnpglackin345 2 года назад

What pandemic?

@iambodybuildingyt221 3 года назад

This channel is so good glad I found it

@Flome810 3 года назад

I say that all the time

@iambodybuildingyt221 3 года назад

@@Flome810 😀

@yonahyarrish 3 года назад

Same

@IronMaiden1164 3 года назад

You just found AMC?

@iambodybuildingyt221 3 года назад

@@IronMaiden1164 no captain midnight

@overseastom 2 года назад

I was kind of surprised that this video omitted any mention of the absolutely ludicrous amount of advertisements we all have to suffer through whenever we try and watch one of their show on AMC's actual cable channel. *That's* what killed it for me. I think they have more frequent and longer ad breaks than any other channel I've ever seen, and when the option to stream shows with NO ads exists, I'm going that latter route every time. I'll happily wait an extra year for the newest episodes of Better Call Saul to reach Netflix, just to watch them as the creators intended, without idiotic ads punctuating their brilliant scripts and drama.

@MaxwellAerialPhotography 3 года назад

The Killing and Hell on Wheels are two of my favourite (underrated) AMC shows. I may be slightly biased on Hell on Wheels because it was filmed 15 minutes from my parents house and a ton of friends and I were extras on the show.

@lilmsgs 3 года назад

Halt and Catch Fire's first season was far and away the best... depicting realistic events of its era. Then it fell into what all shows seem to... pushing the framework of a show's premise into the background and focusing on relationship drama, with the specifics of what the show was originally about touched on as an afterthought.

@DavidJGlad 2 года назад

I thought Halt and Catch Fire's first season was so masterfully done the show could have just as easily ended there and as such I too re-watch it for that reason. Happy they made additional seasons to please the fans, but struck me as ridiculous the arcs from there to think those characters would be involved in various other industry events. PS I get I'm replying to your comment a year later. :)

@lilmsgs 2 года назад

@@DavidJGlad It's nice to be reminded of comments I've made. I fire them off as thoughts occur to me and I often forgot I made them. I agree, the show's character archs spun off in the goofy directions. I used to have that job of technical sales support for years, working for the biggest computer companies. That show nailed it.

@alpacamale2909 3 года назад

TWD was zombies on a darker tone, it was basically The Crazies which was really really liked. People saw zombie shows as comedies like Shawn of the dead or Zombieland. TWD was what everybody secretly wanted. For one season anyways. Season 2 took a different direction in plot.

@alpacamale2909 3 года назад

@Uncle Ho yeah they basically rebooted a bunch of meh archetypes in different settings and went with it. Fooling the audience in the process. instead of turning the initial group in more of an expedition through a world infested with zombies, trying to find answers. they took the easier route with the author's material, which I dropped after the governor's arc. One thing that doesn't make sense is why the hell was season 2 so damn slow and uninteresting.

@vishaansingh1019 3 года назад

@@juubilo1509 Eh. IMO, Kirkman has always struggled with emotional moments (Both TWD and Invincible) whereas the show vastly improved on them. You're being a bit reductive, both versions have their strengths and weaknesses.

@gavina4241 3 года назад

@@vishaansingh1019 agreed

@ThatsMildlyAdequate 3 года назад

Season 2 was a pretty solid entry in the series, its not nearly as bad as people like to say

@seanwegner9925 3 года назад

TWD was a hit just like the comics because it is simply the zombie movie that never ends. That’s how it even started because Robert Kirkman loved watching classic zombie movies but hated the endings and always wondered what happens after the credits roll.

@TheMidnightShowProductions 8 месяцев назад

AMC did have some good shows like Humans, Into the Badlands, Halt and Catch Fire, and gangs of London

@archer1949 3 года назад

Halt and Catch Fire was one of the most slept on shows ever.

@Bald_and_Brown 3 года назад

Nah, Dispatches From Elsewhere.

@Texan45 3 года назад

When you mentioned TWD, I got goosebumps immediately. I used to love the show and would plan my Sunday's around the show so I didn't miss a second. They made horrible death decisions that didn't need to be made, then when Andy left, I stopped watching. I'm done with the show, but still looking forward to Rick's movies because he was my favorite character (for being an ex cop, tho, he can't fight for shit). Edit: Talking Dead was immensely successful because it was an hour-long therapy session after episodes. It honestly did work for a ton of people, especially after Glenn was killed and Rick left.

@GrayLanternPPA 3 года назад

I feel like FX went through a bit of a wane, particularly when AMC blew up, but FX was able to weather the storm and has continued to do extremely well (though I'm sure there's a general viewership decline there as well given the state of viewership).

@MarkRVillano 3 года назад

TWD started out promising, and quickly degenerated into an epically long slog to nowhere, with seemingly no purpose beyond getting to the next episode. That dog jumped the shark so many times I lost count.

@oats2949 3 года назад

The Walking Dead started going downhill when Frank Darabont got fired in season 2. Scott Gimple and Angela Kang are a big downgrade.

@eyeswulf 3 года назад

As always, you produce high quality commentary

@cole8619 3 года назад

Let me tell you something Captain Midnight. You EASILY have the best RU-vid intro I've ever seen and if you ever change it, I will cry.

@dissolution 3 года назад

"The Terror" was great. Season 1 and 2. I loved it. I don't have cable so I bought them from Microsoft or someone else. So glad I did.

@samgeary6825 3 года назад

I have just watched season 1 as it has only just reached the UK and Ireland on tv and my god what an underrated series.

@Shatamx 3 года назад

The Terror season 1 is fantastic. Hope more people check it out.

@IveGotToast 3 года назад

AMC in 2007: Nostalgia - its delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means 'the pain from an old wound. ' It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine AMC in 2021: Zombie brain go SPLAT

@Psilocybin77 3 года назад

🤣

@alissonfranca9162 3 года назад

I'm currently watching Lodge 49 and this show is SO GOOD. It's sad I only ever heard of it after it was already cancelled.

@speedracer1945 3 года назад

Stupid yuppie show

@Weskalia 3 года назад

Since you already analyzed failed adaptations from novels like Nardia, Eragon. Can you do Darren Shan next?

@wobblecrash 3 года назад

Man I would love for Cirque Du Freak or Demonata to get a proper adaptation

@kristianbutler6213 3 года назад

Can’t lie I enjoyed the movie, but a proper adaption would be littttt

@SuperShadowify 3 года назад

@@wobblecrash a demonata series would be fantastic, holy shit.

@wallywest4727 3 года назад

@@wobblecrash The problem with Demonata is how do you do that? It was insanely violent and morbid what would get a Hard R/18 at the very least if you kept it how the series was, making it a PG-13 film would be so toned down that it wouldn't even be the same.

@Chris951021 3 года назад

Why did you mention Eragon? Now I'm sad again.

@2Halfs 3 года назад

You should do another "amazing career of" for Kurosawa. I hear his name all the time, but I dont really know a lot about him. It would be really cool to learn about how he maybe impacted both Eastern/Japanese cinema and Western cinema, and how he managed to bridge the gap between them.

@stephennootens916 3 года назад

I remember Remember When, my grandma watched it. She was loved old movies so AMC was her channel and I have countless tapes of movies that she taped off the channel. Luckily when it turned away from the classic movies TCM came out to fill the gap that they made.

@highwind1991 3 года назад

Mad Men and better Call Saul are some of my top favorite shows of all time. It's so weird that I didn't even think about the fall of AMC because I've been really enjoying every season of better Call Saul

@lhfirex 3 года назад

The TWD comic actually went somewhere interesting by the end of it, with a lot of ideas about how the world changes, and the final arc had a good thematic statement. It stands on its own in the zombie horror category. The TV show has no hope of being interesting again, since they intend to keep it running longer than The Simpsons.

@platnumbreaker 3 года назад

Season 11 is it's final season at least for the main show. Although they are doing the Commonwealth so dirty compared to the comics but hopefully it'll get better.

@tomerohanabentzvi9866 3 года назад

Then you clearly haven't been watching it, saying the show doesn't have a y interesting ideas about how the world changes is just not true since seasons 9 a d 10 have literally been about trying to rebuild society and start things over, so i get criticizing the show about the writing or the fact that most of the original cast is gone, but saying it doesn't build up to a satisfying conclusion is just not true

@KDUBS79 3 года назад

I really enjoyed Into the Badlands and never understood why it didn't catch on better.

@eatatjoes6751 3 года назад

AMC is literally *The Walking Dead Channel, featuring No, Don't Turn to BBC America, we have other stuff, too!* Like, random movies in front of the Walking Dead, and...uh... I think it's also the fact that they undermarket stuff that *isn't* the Walking Dead.

@weirdguy1495 3 года назад

But it also plays BBC America shows.

@ikesours6558 3 года назад

AMC co-owns BBC America.

@plugshirt1684 3 года назад

BBC America has a lot of movies but it’s annoying as hell and has a weird thing where it cuts the dialogue every couple of seconds so it’s a pain to watch though that might just be my tv

@sharolddelilahkelly8005 3 года назад

@@ikesours6558 ...And IFC, Sundance &: WeTv...& @Plug Shirt: IFC Sundance And WeTv Pull The Same Thing Editing &: Bleeping, (Using The "Before Nine PM Eastern" Excuse) @ Every Turn You're Right On About That, By The Way. 👍

@bruceflashback3877 3 года назад

In my mind ,the downfall of AMC is when they quit showing older movies without commercial interuption.

@newstarcadefan 3 года назад

Yeah, they were getting competiton from turner Classic movies.

@juicestains52 3 года назад

I can honestly say that I was genuinely invested in the TWD from S1E1 all the way to S7E2. After the big Negan thing happened it kinda just felt like there was no point in continuing.

@Jackson-jd1um 3 года назад

I highly recommend shoving your way through season 7 and 8 because they get rid of scott gimple (thank god) and season 9 and 10 are genuinely amazing and terrifying seasons that I always tell people who gave up on the show to get to because it’s truly amazing tv now

@Regalvoid 3 года назад

Saw this in my subscription feed and thought Company Man posted a bonus video lmao

@allenelliott2114 3 года назад

A man of culture, I see

@goldwincs 3 года назад

11:56 I'm glad Lodge 49 got a mention. Not enough people watched that show. It was interesting, engaging, and funny.

@marcusdriskell 3 года назад

I loved Rubicon and was fully on board with it. Easily one of the most disappointed cancelling's of a TV show for me. Also really liked Lodge 49 but that one met its maker too soon also :/

@largepurplemonkey 3 года назад

Halt & Catch Fire was brilliant, but it went so under the radar even I keep forgetting about it, and I loved every episode

@aFlyMothaLova 3 года назад

They’re doing walking dead how nick did spongebob. Let it go! Lol

@animatedalex619 3 года назад

Its ending season 11

@aFlyMothaLova 3 года назад

@@animatedalex619 but they are going to continue it with spin offs lol

@animatedalex619 3 года назад

@@aFlyMothaLova well yes but not the main show

@TheRomeVEVO 3 года назад

And how FOX is doing the Simpsons

@TheMightyCookieShow 2 года назад

Nobody wants to pay money for cable...then still be forced to also watch commercials.

@jamesskierski1649 3 года назад

Every time there's a new season of TWD, the zombie joke becomes more relevant

@danielmbg 3 года назад

At least season 11 is the final one, hehe.

@nismonolo 3 года назад

Halt & Catch Fire is such a criminally underrated show. It’s up there with Breaking Bad as far as how connected i felt to the characters, they felt like my friends.

@warlordpro67 3 года назад

AMC has made their whole network so much about TWD now I forgot they even made shows like hell on wheels and turn.

@SPTV-Vids 3 года назад

I love Halt and Catch Fire

@bennettroberts4155 3 года назад

The death of amc. We fired the director of season one of the walking dead and replaced him and it was all down hill from there

@SmartypantsTutoring 3 года назад

Thanks for making this as I’ve been thinking about especially as of late with Better Call Saul coming to an end next year. They have still had some bright spots, The Terror(first season), Halt and Catch Fire, haven’t seen Lodge 49, but it saddens me to see their fall after pushing the mediocre show like Walking Dead and it’s spin-offs into the spotlight. Hope they can turn it around. Oh and while I’ve only seen the first 2 seasons of Into the Badlands regardless of whatever someone thinks of that show, it has some impressive fight choreography for a tv show. Oh and Rubicon should not have been cancelled so early.

@JWickyJr13 3 года назад

That first Walking Dead trailer was absolute heat.

@jakubchalupa8510 3 года назад

I didn't even know that the Terror was on amc. Such a good show.

@VinegarAndSaltedFries 3 года назад

I think the price cutting of season 2 of the walking dead really was the downfall of it. Nothing ever lived up to the quality of HBO or streaming services after they cut back on spending post Breaking Bad, and Mad Men. Even better call Saul feels cheaper in quality. All of that was cost cutting issues and it’s honestly what cost them many viewers in the long run.

@mattbrashfanatic6162 3 года назад

Movie theaters still slap tho

@SJ_RANKS 3 года назад

I enjoyed the walking dead at first but after Frank Darabont either left or was kicked off I can’t remember which the show just felt kinda directionless. I mean negan Is a cool character but what do they do besides kill zombies survive get a new location every season and then lose it by season 4 or 5 I found the show completely boring because let’s be honest there wasn’t really a story it’s just them trying to survive and we already did this in the late 90’s with films like Godzilla,lost world,independence day and twister and I’m sorry you need more of a plot then “we’re just trying to survive”

@donaldkelly3983 3 года назад

Preacher was brilliant and under appreciated. The cancellation of Lodge 49 was AMC's first self inflicted injury!

@daniellauricella5132 3 года назад

Will you be doing a video on Falcon and TWS next week? That's when the show will be ending and I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on it. I've been loving it myself. Made Falcon a much more interesting character than he was before and did a much better job with John Walker than the Supergirl show did with its botched Agent Liberty.

@matthewharvey3556 8 месяцев назад

Halt and Catch Fire was one of the best things in TV, ever. Full stop.

@dionrobertson5177 3 года назад

I been saying, next 10 15 years tv channels and cable will become obsolete

@ironfox4990 3 года назад

Not just obsolete just nonexistent anywhere, Comcast is going to shut down NBC Sports Network this summer and others will do the same eventually.

@Josh123benja 3 года назад

Thank you for taking about Halt and Catch Fire, I love that show so much

@miquon4717 3 года назад

AMC had Dispatches from Elsewhere last year and no one talks about it.

@Activated_Complex 3 года назад

The TWD comics by Robert Kirkman, which you mentioned falling off, are worth coming back to. Kirkman wrapped up the run really well, with an ending he had planned for some time. With the story having gone in some new directions that transcend the genre. Invincible is also a great Kirkman read that wrapped up really well, and again, takes some really interesting turns.

@tobygiantwood363 3 года назад

I love the walking dead comics. I don’t care for the show. Part of this is due to the pack of respect for the source material. The show is 80%- 85% filler and when something does happen it’s usually just a non sensical death based purely on shock value.

@RealHomeRecording 3 года назад

Too much filler is exactly why I stopped watching it.

@JoshuaHenelyThornhill 3 года назад

Great video my friend it was so informative and I liked learning about this more. What future awaits normal TV ? I wonder 🤔🤔

@NarutoUzumaki-sh1do 3 года назад

I loved Halt and Catch Fire. The first season had me enthralled

@Cixelated 3 года назад

The reason most people got into TWD was mainly because of the unanticipated deaths. When they debuted Negan I remembered for *days* if not *MONTHS* people were asking who was going to die next. I got out even before then, but by then it felt like reality television.