I totally get your point. I just think you’re overstating the impact of The Wire in a way. I think you’re definitely correct insofar as The Wire did what it did so well, that that type of non-episodic, big picture storytelling became “the standard” to which all TV was held to by critics. As you correctly point out,…

“There’s a reason the shows that have been hit hard are science fiction and fantasy.”

The biggest complaint in my book is sort of macroscopic (and I had it since season 1). The host technology just doesn’t track. There’s no way you put skin-gloves on that metal frame, and you end up with a living and breathing Evan Rachel Wood rather than, at best, some uncanny valley nightmare, at worst one of those…

With respect to Real Sex, THIS is the greatest show HBO has ever brought us:

My favourite was when Serac’s top super badass guy showed up with his Garotte it turned out his fatal flaw was that his spine was made out of pudding.

The episode could have been recovered almost entirely by your excellent idea that Caleb dismount from the bike and needing to get a strawberry milkshake before doing anything else.

This is a show where we’ve seen that people have literal auto-aiming guns but the only time the villains ever get to use them is when Maeve can just hack them (in a rare moment of using any of her abilities).

Well, since the character arcs, or lack of them, and the inelegant storytelling have already been analyzed to the nth degree, I guess that I’m stuck with complaining about impossible logistics and plot contrivances that just wrecked havoc with my suspension of disbelief (Thanks, Samuel Coleridge for inventing that…

Yeah, I think this was the natural ending point of this show. I would have given the whole series a B overall just for the spectacle, even if it meant that Jeffrey Wright and his performance had pretty much been completely wasted.

100% agree with Zack; that’s two seasons in a row where I tell myself “The people telling this story know where they’re going with it” and end up 2 months later realizing they absolutely did not. The last 30 minutes had me rolling my eyes at the Dolores pontificating, unengaged, just waiting for something for something…

....I mean, obviously the story has a happy ending, at least for the women of Gilead. We know this from the book, that eventually Gilead starts changing and then eventually people rise up and burn it down. I saw Eden’s death as a spark that lit both the literal and figurative fires that started this week. The wives…

Sooooooo. What was up with Tyrion creeping outside Dany’s room?