Season 3 is actually the best of the series, so if you liked the first 2, keep going.

Except Jenji Kohan is the only showrunner they've approached with that pitch that I think is worth anything.

He was the one of the longest reigning writers on Sopranos (Season 2 through the end) and was credited with some of the best episodes like The Weight, University, Members Only, and The Ride. Season 1 before Winter came on board, hasn't aged well. I strongly disagree with you on Boardwalk, although it should be said…

I like David Chase, think The Sopranos is near perfection, and liked Never Fade Away but think it kind of exposed Chase as a one trick pony. Overbearing Italian American mother, distant father, and "you look like you just got off the boat at Ellis Island" was the movie's variation of "you never had the makings of a…

Its not a very impressive selection if you aren't into any of the originals (and have seen, say, all the Tarantino movies). Showtime's on demand documentary selection is superior in quality, if not quantity. Same goes for the movie selection on HBO/Cinemax or even Starz/Encore standalone apps.

Didn't The Qwikster model actually end up basically happening, only without the separate entity names?
Internet Outrage over something: here today, gone tomorrow.

That's what the last girl I casually dated told me!

Exactly. Even the color timing in the trailer makes it look like the art in those books.

I like it because it reminds me of one of those Star Wars picture books with the read along cassette tapes you could find in the bargain bin at Big Lots in the late 80's. I'm being totally sincere about that too.

OG Stormtroopers and AT-ATs would have gotten the point across, unless you consider TFA a necessary palate cleanser. It certainly was that by being as bland and inoffensive (in both good and bad ways) as possible.

(Based on the trailer), THIS is what Force Awakens should have been.

"Uses good looks and charm to lure guests into a saloon" you say? Why not make it about me?

Jonah Keri has a podcast with Nerdist now. Yes, with Chris Hardwick, the kind of guy to describe a game as "sportsball" to get a laugh.

This would have been cutting edge material on Deadspin circa 2005.

Nor has he ever met a metaphor he didn't like.

That too. I didn't want to include that in my little list and be accused of being a book snob. If you like the franchise enough to be employed by the parent company of the show and spend so much time writing and obsessing about the series, just take the time to read the damn books.

I would say if you're going to make a living covering "prestige tv", at least cover your bases with handful of 00's HBO dramas. I've suspiciously never heard him say or write anything about Deadwood either….

To be fair, that's exactly why I hated his Dawn of the Dead adaptation.

Ugh, not a Greenwald fan at all. He found a lane during the great tv recap/"criticism" boom of the early 10's and exploited it. The dude's never even seen Six Feet Under, for starters, hated the first season of True Detective, and once declared that The Walking Dead was "back".

Love them or hate them, at least Snyder's movies have a take. All this vitriol should be directed toward the Len Wisemans and Louis Leterriers of the Hollywood hack-for-hire pool, instead.