And yet it’s taken until this week – with La La Land and Whiplash director Damien Chazelle launching The Eddy on Netflix – for someone to try and make a prestige musical TV show.
Where it would be easy to imagine The Eddy as “La La Land, but a TV show”, it’s more like its younger sibling.
The TV musical can work after all.
This issue is only heightened in the TV format, due to the obvious, practical differences between one-off films and TV shows.