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B. Eldon Calder's avatar

What a great take on this. I can relate. There was a good 15 years where I watched everything on HBO. I collected the box sets. Just this week, my wife and I unsubscribed this week, content with our Apple TV shows for a while. The "Prestige TV" success rate is higher. I'm not an expert on how anything is greenlit in the biz, but why are so many things being developed at once these days by studios? (Not just HBO but everywhere?).

HBO felt like an authored brand for a long time. Really great curated content. It was special. I don't get that feeling now. I wonder who else gave up this week. It's like a Pulitzer winning author deciding they're going to quadruple their output, with the same results . . .

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Swabreen Bakr's avatar

This read was a rollercoaster of emotions lol! It is sad to consider how much the writing has been downgraded even in their prestige shows :(

‘Mountainhead’ was truly awful, should have stayed in Jesse Armstrong’s drafts until he had something actually interesting to say.

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