popping in to say true detective season one was cool but i think it's a one trick pony like i doubt season 2 will be good they cast vince vaughn for god's sake!! it's so annoying because HBO has the ability to do great shows and theyre settling for mediocrity that will get high ratings like game of thrones. the channel that aired truly daring tv like the wire and deadwood and angels in america and sopranos is fading fast and it's disappointing because they SHOULD be improving but they arent :(
its soo fustrating because we see this happen over and over again in televison history. In the late 80s/early 90s UPN turned to diverse programs to help save their fledging network and it WORKED, ABC is turning to diverse programs such as Black-ish, Cristela, Scandal and HITGAWM to hlep save them and its WORKING, OITNB is what really got Netflix into the game and taken seriously (you can say house of cards but i disagree), NBC picked up the Cosby show in the late 80s and it was the most highly rated program of the decade, and while The sopranos wasn’t diverse it was daring and HBO later took a risk with The Wire (no one watched it but now it considered the great TV drama of all time so…). But guess what happened to UPN when it got successful? it started airing mostly white-led shows, and NBC was so white during the 90s it was blinding. Networks count on daring and diverse shows when they’re in trouble but once they’re stable they abandon them. Its happening to HBO right now and if netflix is still around in 8 years it will start happening to them too.