We are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called Peak TV, in which television has seized the entertainment mantle from movies and dominates our leisure time. How and why this happened is the subject of this book. Biskind bites off a big chunk of entertainment history, following HBO from its birth into maturity, moving on to the basic cablers like FX and AMC, and ending up with the streamers and their wars, pitting Netflix against Amazon Prime Video, Max, and the killer pluses--Disney, Apple TV, and Paramount. In the end, this book crystal-balls the future in light of the success and failures of the streamers that, after apparently clearing the board, now face life-threatening problems, some self-created, some not. This is the only book you'll need to read to understand what's on your small screen and how it got there.