It will be interesting if this show gets serious awards/Emmy attention. It is on that borderline between being prestige and the kind of well-made procedural the Emmys perpetually ignore.
I was actually just thinking about this and I'm all for it! John Carter turning into the senior attending/Papa Bear was not something I thought I needed.
Also would love to see some Emmy love for that supporting cast, especially Taylor Dearden and Katherine LaNasa.
It's interesting what happens when you let people who know how to make EPISODES of TELEVISION make episodes of television. And then when those people actually like and appreciate the medium of television? And don't assume their viewers want merely semi-tolerable #content? Whewww good things happen.
Wild to see the technocrat stranglehold on our culture get so bad that even people whose billion dollar companies depend on humans becoming invested in human stories think their job is to somehow farm data into making that happen.
Even the greenest 22 year old arts intern would be able to tell them that that approach is doomed to failure. Watch audiences for one season at a regional theater and you learn the limits of our ability to predict future success by replicating what worked in the past. You learn to trust artists.
But these yahoos were somehow given infinite resources to throw into the abyss of their terrible ideas and inadequate understanding of human nature and the function of art and storytelling. It’s too complex a system to reliably predict using data metrics.
Sorry for the rant. I work in new play development and personally know brilliant working artists who could deliver compelling stories if just trusted. (I commissioned STEREOPHONIC, which won this year’s Tony for best play.) it’s impossible to know how to capture the zeitgeist from an office.
You’ve got to trust artists and their instincts. And it frustrates me to see how much money these execs pour down the drain in service of utter BS, earning obscene paychecks while actual artists are squeezed more and more.
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Also would love to see some Emmy love for that supporting cast, especially Taylor Dearden and Katherine LaNasa.