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, sci-fi stuff with dragons in it
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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, cleansed, deloused, purified by god. [jacqueline] the knick is set in a hospital in the early 20th century. clive owen plays their premier physician. and he s well respected, but he s also completely addicted to heroin. he s a madman. though this is madness, yet there is method in it. [jacqueline] steven soderbergh as the director really set the show apart, particularly because of the camera style. it was a show that was absolutely filmed like a movie as opposed to a television show.
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 get into the original programming business.
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