Did not follow (or care about) the drama as it was unfolding a few years ago, but I found this interview fascinating. Great stuff!

ewwww

Just the writer. He's also having trouble remembering the character's name.

Hey! I resemble etc.

I see. I don't know what to tell you, then. There is some good drama, especially in the previous episode. And a whooooole lot of eczema, if you're into that stuff.

I agree with you on most points, actually. The character makes numerous dumb mistakes in subsequent episodes as well, but they really go overboard with it in the pilot. I guess I've just seen too much TV to let that bother me too much at this point, although of course we all have our breaking points.

The only problem is too much good television!

This is not true crime. This is fictional horrible people doing horrible things to one another.

This is word-for-word my experience with it, minus the reading of novelization.

If you've already decided that nothing important happens in things you haven't seen yet, no, it's not worth watching.

You jest, but really, none of the subsequent manifesto crazies have reached nearly the same level of writing quality. The all-caps "leftists" on the very first page does immediately bring to mind modern-day denizens of various ultra right-wing Internet black holes, but the actual content is far more intelligent than…

I'm having a bit of difficulty believing that last week's foot chase scene was written with Gandolfini in mind.

Oh, I have no problem with his career choices, he just looks like Redford.

It was especially disappointing because I thought it would be in the same vein as Nineteen Eighty-Four, which blew me away.

The writing style was incredibly obnoxious to my 19-year-old self.

Captain Dada's response to this comment remains one of the funniest things I've read on this site:

Never heard of this Adam Cohen person. He sounds a lot like his father, but his music does not. You need better/sadder lyrics and cheesier backing vocals, Adam!

Brad Pitt turned into Robert Redford so slowl—wait, he's always looked like Robert Redford, it's just that he now looks like present-day Robert Redford.

It's entirely possible, and I love that the spin-offs are trying to be completely different in tone and style to the main franchise, it's just that this trailer did nothing for me. Not that I won't be seeing it opening weekend, I just wish it had a little more oomph to it.

I remember trying to read it as a teenager and dropping it after spending the first few pages muttering "oh fffffffuuuuck offfff".