Dream Sequences Suck: A Follow-Up

Thanks to James Wolcott, my cranky complaints about dream sequences on TV are stated in considerably better prose:

Dream sequences are a curse on series TV, equal in their artsy-kitschy intrusiveness to ghostly visitations from deleted characters, and perhaps even worse than dream sequences are dream-sequence interpretations, which compels talented critics to smack at every symbol that pops up from the watery unconscious with wooden paddles.

The implication that L&O: CI is superior is, on the other hand, quite spectacularly wrong, but at least he’s right to attack The Sopranos at its weakest point…