I have seen four different HBO series in complete or partial episodes so far on Netflix: Deadwood, Big Love, The Sopranos, and Rome, and each seems to be a complete entity all in itself, until you see a whole cluster of them at once.
Then all of the credits start to look alike, the careful placement of music starts to look alike, and, it looks like a formula has been found for HBO dramas. Mind you, the dramas work—I’m hooked—but it’s like figuring out how the rabbit gets in the hat. I’ve figured out HBO. I guess in a college class that means that I would then have the tools to write for them, but I don’t have time to write much of anything these days.
Not going to stop watching HBO, though, via Netflix.
2 comments:
i loved "six feet under" and recommend it. in particular, the basic thesis in it about authenticity and art as saving grace seems right up ur alley.
Odd, but a former high school classmate told me the same thing just shortly after my mother's death in 2002.
It's destined, then. :)
Evil, evil man for tempting me into yet another HBO work...lol...
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