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 catch phrases to moments within the show. and by tend, all that was less about 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 after something else new. that was their secret weapon.
americans is that every marriage is kind of a cold war. it s two people locked in combat that never actually boil others into combat, and i thought that was just very smart. i think fx did so much good work that it moved television forward. a lot of these networks have been trying to expand their brand. and a lot of how you expand your brand is with a really, really good scripted title. sundance tv had rectified, a show i will always tell people to watch. it s a contemplative show, a show about faith and spiritiate, about a guy who was on death row for 20 years and gets released and is traumatized to learn what the show is like. shows like that get to exist because things keep expanding and there keep being room for more ideas and more different versions of what quality looks like. cinemax had always been the less respected little brother of hbo. people called it skinamax. and rather than compete with what hbo was able to do on sort
that was their secret weapon. this is kind of ambitious television that hbo had creatively pioneered, which was when cable channels like fx and amc got 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 preacher feature. the walking dead on amc was a gigantic zombie show at a moment when 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. because of that, amc kept renewing it season after season. it was a show 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
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level of rising anger at the time about income inequality. it was channeling a level of anger that i think people were starting to feel around then. you i know what? what? sometimes it is a big dick competition. succession suddenly became the talked about show for hbo. it s basically a fictional account of the murdoch family s life. bryan cox is logan roy, the long-time indomitable head of the family. you have a number of his children all jockeying for position constantly and hoping that ultimately they will be the one to inherit the empire. guy, what dad is saying just know your role and execute. my worry is kendall may come across as too cool and likable. succession is the top shelf of television. succession is television that seems to be playing at its highest select tlek yul level, and still is incredibly funny. oh, dude, he is gone. nazis are terrible, right? nazis?