While some cinephiles will argue cinema might never reach the same heights that it did in the 1970s or 1990s, 2007 stands out as a great year for the medium before it became apparent that television was the more “serious” medium when it came to serious dramatic storytelling. It was only a year later that the true rise of comic book movies began with Iron Manand The Dark Knight; at the same time, Breaking Badpremiered its first season on AMC and launched a modern era of “peak television.”