The sad thing is that while in a just world publications would suffer for approving such posts, in a click-driven world idiotic lightning rod posts like this only improve ad revenue and show your site to people who wouldn't normally notice trade blogs.

I'm arguing for trusting artists over executives.

Honestly, in a day and age of such fragmented viewership Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder and Empire have all been colossal successes. You don't succeed so highly by only engaging one demographic. As if the rhetorical aspect of the argument wasn't offensive, the empirical evidence eviscerates it as well.

The stupidest thing is that they're criticizing runaway successes, in the end those writing the checks only care about how much return on investment they make.

Yes, because that's obviously what I was saying. Executives are bad at creative choices. If you're saying that most of the people put in charge of shows tend to cast people like themselves and that there aren't enough minority voices behind the camera, then I agree with you. But combatting that is more important than…

Breaking Bad is the biggest example of constantly being available on Netflix boosting a show's ratings throughout its run. The other is Sons of Anarchy.

Some people are probably surprised that that kind of success is still possible in our fragmented viewing times.

I love the idea of a buffet having "specials".

Why hasn't there been a reboot starring Joel McHale? #synergy

Also shocking, kids grow up to not take everything hook/line/sinker that their parents told them as the bedrock of their lives.

This article was all kind of poorly thought out, but am I alone in wishing people would just accept the choices of filmmakers and not pressure people that their casts aren't diverse enough or are too diverse? Let the people writing the show decide who is right for the role, sometimes race matters based on the material…

Came to say the same, but Sean probably knows that and just went with the sickness tirade anyway.

Easy A was pretty great, but Mean Girls really is quite a bit better. Basically the entire screenplay is quotable (come on, it's Tina Fey) so there's still probably plenty. Plus the performances are all pretty great, though it's sad to watch now considering the potential Lohan threw away.

Slightly lower than Inception but still huge, so yeah he's not going to get any push back any time soon.

Yeah I only noticed that Drew Pearce was writing this not him after making my initial comment.

It's like someone who's not a native english speaker misunderstanding the use of the word "point" or something.

I will say that The King of Limbs went over like a lead balloon to me seeing them do huge outdoor ampitheaters, it worked on "From the Basement" but the kind of music they're doing now by and large doesn't fit the size of the audience anymore for me. Then again I was pretty disappointed at how little reaction the…

I think the claim that it sounds flat on record is only by comparison to the many times they've rejuvenated it in different ways live, it's a great record but went above and beyond it every tour until they kind of killed it by going through the motions on the Vertigo tour. Now that it's been retired for awhile maybe…

The better pick would have been to say U2 - "Discography". They're a band who have long benefited from some of the most impeccable production ever in rock thanks to their partnership with Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno and yet they seem to always go well above and beyond that with a crowd to feed off of.

Everything from ZooTV fits this description, barring the title track to Zooropa. And that tour delves heavily into several records that have some of the best production in rock history.