12 great TV series by film directors

With studios getting more squeamish about bankrolling non-franchise movies, and the streaming wars opening up new avenues for more adventurous, niche-driven television, big-name film directors have not only flooded to television they have also survived the transition with their sensibilities intact. In just the past two weeks, Damien Chazelle (“Whiplash” and “La La Land”) has brought his musical obsession to bear on the cosmopolitan Netflix jazz drama, “The Eddy,” and Crystal Moselle has brought back the New York girl-gang skateboarders of her 2018 indie “Skate Kitchen” for the HBO series “Betty.”

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