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[alan] cinemax had always been the less-respected little brother of hbo. people called it skinemax. and rather than try to compete with what hbo was able to do on sort or a high-class level, they start doing these action shows. [daniel] these are great, elevated, b-movie tv shows. and then sometimes cinemax struck gold, like the knick. you turn a block of programming over to steven soderbergh, and in this case, it was brilliant television. gentlemen, atomizers on. everyone scrubbed, washed, clea...

Is it okay if i come a little... a little closer? is that okay? you take one more step, ill shoot ya. thats all im gonna say. [alan] raylan givens is a us marshal played by timothy olyphant. raylan often likes to circumvent justice and manuever people he knows are bad into circumstances in which he can shoot them and it will be considered justified. marshal, i wanna tell you something important. [gunshot] [shell clinks] [melanie] justified is a western thats brought into a southern cop show. wou...

Okay, loretta. [daniel] suddenly there you find the humanity behind all of this, and it is one of the great second seasons in tv history, one of the great leaps that any show has taken. gm cant make these fast enough, huh? yeah, its a great car. [daniel] the americans is itself a great part of the fx brand as well. the americans concerned two kgb agents--theyre spies-- stop. [renee] --pretending to be a married suburban couple. youre my wife. is that right? [james] elizabeth, very interestingly,...

Its really powerful. [daniel] amc was no longer american movie classics. what they stood for was quality programming. [vince] we went to amc because, frankly, amc was the only outfit that was asking us to do the show. cooking is art. and the shit i cook is the bomb, so dont be telling me. shit you cook is shit. breaking bad is the story of a chemistry teacher who finds out that hes dying from cancer. and what he decides to do as a means of providing for his family is to make meth with his former...

There is a sense with him sometimes that he learned to game the system. ♪ i know when that hotline bling ♪ in the streaming era, a song has to play for a certain amount of seconds to make any money on spotify. so with artists like drake, you started hearing all these songs with shorter intros. were getting to the chorus really quickly, cause youre suddenly having to consider keeping people on a song for long enough for it to count. ♪ baby ♪ i like you so so whether its one dance or gods ...

For his children. -is that what you care about? -no, i care about everything. not the motherland. i do, but our family comes first. [emily] the central metaphor of the americans is that every marriage is kind of a cold war. its two people locked in combat that never actually boils over into combat, and i thought that was just very smart. i think fx did so much good work that it moved television forward. [daniel] a lot of these networks have been trying to expand their brands. and a lot of how yo...

And theyre willing to take chances on shows like mad men. and then the walking dead was an extended creature feature. [walker growling] [daniel] the walking dead on amc was a gigantic zombie show at a moment that people were loving zombie things. [shannon] walking dead really captured everyones attention. it just has this explosive moment across social media. people cant stop talking about it. and because of that, amc kept renewing it season after season. [daniel] it was a show that people respo...

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Insanity.. and now you can do anything because youre fightingal oppression. even when there is no oppression around -- like people blocking trafficno they win because those hardworking people in cars are evil and if one of those drivers accidentally hits a protester well you know who the villain would be. even if the protesters put his, own life in danger. and imagine if someone shot that teen when he broke into his house who would be the villain then? even if that punk had put his own life in d...