Game of trones8/25/2023 What came next was the rise of serialized genre drama that was starting to be taken seriously by critics. In the late '90s and early '00s, genre TV was regarded as more cultish, with a notable exception in The X-Files. It felt like a new era of big-budget genre TV was starting to emerge. The year before, The Walking Dead debuted on AMC in the US, in the capable hands of Frank Darabont. It was more about antiheroes in the real world – Tony Soprano, Stringer Bell and, er, Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm. Game of Thrones had been on my radar for a while – and even though HBO had found success with vampire soap True Blood, this premium cable network wasn't synonymous with sci-fi, fantasy or superheroes. 10 years ago, I was working on the now-defunct UK magazine SciFiNow.
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