There is a lot of talk going around these days — about nothing in particular and about everything in particular.
In the nexus of entertainment and information that includes what we traditionally have thought of as television and radio and that which we call the Internet — a collection of mediums that have begun to blend together as they reach us increasingly across the same platforms — one modality rules over all: talk. The talk show, the podcast, the story hour.
It's customary to speak of the New Golden Age of Television as a function of quality drama.