[alan] succession suddenly became the talked-about show for hbo. it s basically a fictionalized account of the murdoch family s life. brian cox is logan roy, the longtime indomitable head of the family. you ve got a number of his children all jockeying for position constantly and hoping that ultimately they will be the one to inherit the empire. guys, what dad is saying is just, uh, just know your role and execute. my worry is that kendall may come across as too cool and likeable. succession is the top shelf of television. succession is television that seems to be playing at its highest intellectual level and still being incredibly funny. oh, dude, if it s true, he s gone. i mean, nazis terrible, right? -nazis? -yeah. yeah. yeah, they re, they re the worst. yeah, sure, we all hate nazis. it is a phenomenal dive that s detailed and rich. it feels very authentic about families at that level
i will bury you! i will kill, you motherf ker! [jen] she eventually gets her job back at this big corporation, but they have her working in the basement. she s trying to be like a whistleblower and uncover some things about the company that are not great. this was a show about an angry woman before we saw a lot of shows about angry women. it s a show about corporate dissatisfaction. it s a show about feeling alienated from people around you. i think it was really delving into these things maybe before people were ready. i don t wanna freak you out, but i think that i may be the voice of my generation. or at least.a voice. of a generation. girls on hbo is very much the vision lena dunham. it is a show that is simply life as seen through her eyes. seriously, i have never met anyone else who thinks their own life is so f king fascinating. i wanted to fall asleep in my own vomit all day listening to you talk about how you bruise more easily than other people.
the ones that were leading armies, the ones that were basically fighting for the throne. and the emmy goes to. game of thrones. [jacqueline] it dominated the awards circuit. it won multiple emmys. it was on the lips of everyone, from catchphrases to moments within the show. and by the end, all of it felt about how big were the dragons, how big was the action, and less about the intricate character studies that we loved at the beginning. [screaming] [paul] hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition demanding a remake of the final season. [jacqueline] and by the final season, it was just limping to what many just agreed was a very disappointing finale. most great shows are unlike anything that has come before them. what hbo kept doing was going after something else new. that was their secret weapon. this kind of ambitious television that hbo had creatively pioneered, which was when cable channels like fx and amc
you wanted to be on hbo. i was supposed to dump y all out here, then report back to the cp. then why you still here? i like to watch the new guys sweat. for tv, it felt like the closest place you could get to being in a feature film. and then where tv goes next, also on hbo, is peak tv with game of throne. [game of thrones theme] [james] what hbo hasn t done yet is fantasy. and so the books by george rr martin, in a way they read like an hbo show. it s saying, okay, let s take the lord of the rings and give it the psychological complexity and the realpolitik of an hbo show. when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. everybody s vying for the throne, as the title suggests. and to get there, they re going to do incredibly violent things to each other. and it s going to prove that adults will watch crazy fantasy,
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