Yep, lowest grossing yet, it's only barely going to make the top 10 highest grossing films of the year and return 4 times its budget, what an embarrassment.

We're way past that point in the dev cycle, the fall shows are already well into filming.

I specifically mention the creation process in my post as well though?

I thought that too, then I started working at an arthouse theater and got free tickets to what we play there. We get on average a new film a week, so that's ~50 films a year, and that's only a fraction of the auteur film market. So the mid and low budget market definitely still exists, just no one talks about it…

Also on HBO there's Girls, Veep, formerly Treme and Enlightened. Pretty much all of Comedy Central's current shows too. They'll employ other writers, but the voice of the creative head is strong, like Broad City definitely feels like the voice of Abbi and Ilana.

It's not, CW passed on it IIRC.

This is the part where I plug Lightspeed Magazine, holy shit is that publication great. Their audiobook podcast is one of my favs.

This is the part where I plug Lightspeed Magazine, holy shit is that publication great. Their audiobook podcast is one of my favs.

I've seen him in all the aforementioned movies, Horrible Bosses, and the Fright Night remake and I can't remember a single memorable thing about any of those performances. The guy is the definition of a white bread actor.

I meant format wise. You can't compare blockbuster movies to niche TV, that's a deliberately unfair comparison.

I meant format wise. You can't compare blockbuster movies to niche TV, that's a deliberately unfair comparison.

You misunderstand, if anything the casting in S2 was seen as way too conventional. They picked four of the blandest stars in the biz.

I can sympathize, I've done stupider things to get closer to family.

Movies are still experimenting, it's just the extent they experiment with has been pretty stagnant since the 60s/70s. Has there been any big film innovations since the New Waves? TV is just now working it up to that level, so it's pretty exciting.

I only watched two seasons of Glee and had the good sense to bail, so there's that difference.

He probably had something to do with it, but some of the best parts feel like vintage Murphy Madness.

I'm being glib, but on the surface, comparing the legacy of those two to Harrelson and McConaughey, it's a little jarring you gotta admit.

True Detective is a weird position. With its single author it's definitely an auteur product, a kind of product that by design has a niche appeal, yet it was unexpectedly and suddenly thrust into a public spotlight thanks to rabid support it found in its niche. The S2 backlash seems to reflect what was obvious from…

This an EXCELLENT point. TV has really become the people's medium of this generation, our mass culture, thanks to its accessibility.

Yeah, it's hard to keep track of how we're all in the context of a subculture within a subculture here, and that context makes everything get a little warped.