That's also a shitty response to Transparent hiring a trans writer.

Oh this article absolutely has a few strong points (particularly with regards to the writers room), and, frankly, it's good to get a little dissent around here, but a lot of her argument relies on pretty blatant misinterpretation.

I'm not totally sure I agree the characters in SATC were supposed to be likable, necessarily; they just weren't supposed to be unlikable, but that's a whole separate conversation.

And as I think I'm one of a dozen people who liked season 3, I understand.

Writing the guard who killed Poussey as a vicious, intentional murderer would, however, make for very typical TV, and would make it a lot easier to pretend the reason black people are killed by the police is because of bad apples and not institutional racism.

I feel so influential

past season was actually pretty good…

I've decided the Emmy voters are actually all a couple seasons behind on GoT. It would explain so much! Drinklage and best drama wins last year, Maisie Williams finally getting nominated this year…They're only on season 2!

Rory McCann should have been nominated for Season 4, but he had maybe 5 total minutes of screentime this season.

Though what I would give to swap it in for Downton Abbey or Homeland…

In what way is Master of None horribly edited? Genuinely curious - that's one of those things I wouldn't be able to recognize.

If you don't watch The Americans, Better Call Saul, Rectify, or Mr. Robot maybe

I always feel kinda bad for actors on GoT like Liam Cunningham, Carice van Houten, and Alfie Allen who are present enough to give consistently amazing performances but too minor of characters on a show with too large a cast to ever feasibly get recognized.

Strongly, strongly agree. Even within Game of Thrones I'd say Natalie Dormer and Sophie Turner were more deserving (though I'd put Alison Wright, Carrie Coon, and/or Regina King [for The Leftovers] in over either any day of the week).

Maisie Williams finally gets a nod, continuing last year's trend of awarding GoT only when it's at its worst.

They're calling Force Majeure a comedy because it was hilarious.

I actually thought it was significantly funnier than Bridesmaids, though maybe that's because Bridesmaids was very hyped, and I hadn't really heard anything about Spy when I saw it.

I think they touched on this in Blackwater, but certainly it's less emphasized, yes.

NO THAT'S NOT THE LINE

Based on the quality of writing for the last two seasons, I say shorten away. And/or delay away. Whatever results in more time for script review.