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Woohoo HBO

posted 9 years ago by thinkadi
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So let me get this straight, you invest 100$ million in Vinyl and it doesn't get quite the ratings you wanted so you scrap it, but you allow abominations like Girls, Doll & Em, Jonah from Tonga, Silicon Valley, Hello Ladies and many others to have extended seasons while investing in new masterpieces like Divorce?

You look down the series list on HBO's website and it's almost puke-worthy, I miss the time HBO was the defining standard in television and had a line-up of Treme, The Wire, Broadwalk Empire, Entourage, The Sopranos (even The Newsroom was better than this crap) and exciting miniseries like John Adams or, more recently, Show Me A Hero.

You better hope Westworld is actually going to air and save your sorry asses even after it almost failed as well, otherwise you can all thank Casey Bloys for turning you into the Oprah Winfrey Network.

[–] Quest_Shield 9 years ago

Too right. Vinyl was brilliant TV. :(

[–] Furiousfury 9 years ago

Clowns! Vinyl joins the list of excellent one season shows.

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[–] slidell333 9 years ago

Yep, there quickly went from the defining cable channel to having a serious bi-polar disorder. If you look closely you'll notice cost has a lot to do with it, obviously. Shows like "Animals." Etc...

And that's not a knock on "Animals." I don't care for "Girls" never watched "Doll and Em" but I liked "The Brink" and "Hello Ladies" and "Silicon Valley."

[–] fede_4488 9 years ago

Girls, Silicon Valley, Hello Ladies

Those shows are great. And unlike Vinyl, critics loved it and the ratings were high enough to justify the budget for another season and a movie in the case of Hello Ladies and Looking

If I don't reply, you're probably on my ignore list for something I forgot already

[–] pappa-b-bear 9 years ago

Silicon Valley is good though.

[–] matt_d34 9 years ago

Agree... But Silicon Valley is genius

[–] thinkadi 9 years ago

Well, let's agree to disagree, respectfully of course.

[–] River_7 9 years ago

Silicon Valley is good

[–] slidell333 9 years ago

I like it too...let's hope this isn't the last episode EVER Sunday. You never know!

[–] nosidak-434-909833 9 years ago

Whoa wait a minute Silicon Valley is awesome.
and yea THE WIRE was far and away the best show ever. The NEWSROOM sucked tho i hated that show. But VINYL Really was a train wreck mess ot had potential good idea and decent cast the story sucked and the wrinting was horrible sorry to Terence Wintwr