The ultimate sign of television’s arrival as a cinematic art form may be the medium’s growing obsession with the oner — the uninterrupted single-shot technique that was long part of the visual language of big-screen auteurs.
A six-minute tracking shot was, along with the presence of Matthew McConaughey, the prestige calling card for the first season of True Detective. Shows as differently received as The Bear and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story have generated their peak buzz from whole episodes presented in a continuous take. Jeon Woo-Sung’s wild Korean thriller Bargain raised the bar even further by telling its story in six episodes, each shot to at least resemble a oner.
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