the way the show started out was so misogynistic. every woman went through hell. but they persevered and they ended up as the ones that were really calling the shots. the ones that were leading armies. the ones that were basically fighting for the throne. and the emmy goes to game of thrones. 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 was how big were the dragons and how big was the action and less about the intricate character studies that we loved at the beginning. hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition demanding a remake of the final season. 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
speaks to the power of television at that point. they had no rules. you were only limited by budget and imagination. hbo was going to the top talent in terms of directing, writing, casting. as an actor that s where you wanted to work. you wanted to be on hbo. i was supposed to dump you all off here, then report back to the cp. then why are 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 thrones. what hbo hasn t done yet is fantasy. and so the books by george r.r. martin, in a way they read like an hbo show. they say 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
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 get into the original programming business and they re willing to take chances on shows like mad men. and then the walking dead was an extended creature feature. the walking dead on amc was a gigantic zombie show at a moment that people were loving zombie things. walking dead really captured everyone s attention. it just has this explosive moment across social media. people can t stop talking about it. and because of that amc kept renewing it season after season. it was a show that people responded to because it was gross and terrifying and fun and visceral in all of those ways that mad men is cerebral and precise. the blissed-out crossed leg
you think i m stupid? is that what it is? [elevator dings] you think i m a f king. [chuckles] that show starts with an absolute wallop, where she s just having a complete breakdown. 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
alienated from people around you. i think it was really delving into these things, maybe before people were ready. i don t want to 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 of lena dunham. it is a show that is simply life as seen through her eyes. seriously, i ve never met anyone else who thinks their own life is so [ bleep ] fascinating. i wanted to fall asleep in my own vomit all day listening to how you bruise more easily than other people. girls is sex & the city for a new generation. it s girls navigating careers not very well. and that s kind of what made it great, and that it wasn t polished like sex & the city. no. they were in crappy apartments. they were broke. they re dating guys that are treating them poorly, and it s