{"id":47326,"date":"2020-09-22T22:37:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T02:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47326"},"modified":"2020-09-22T22:37:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T02:37:50","slug":"it-must-be-nice-to-be-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47326","title":{"rendered":"It must be nice to be HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Because it seems like just about everything they touch is basically gold.\u00a0 And because all they do is produce gold, they can somehow manage to not just survive, but continue to thrive releasing programming in an episodic format, whereas just about everyone else out there is being forced to drop entire series at a time in order to make ends meet.<\/span><\/p>\n

As much as I love binging shows on Netflix, their sheer thirst for churning out original and acquired content means that we\u2019re long past the days of stalwart originals like House of Cards<\/em>, Daredevil<\/em>, and Stranger Things<\/em>, and for as many good shows and series there are in Netflix\u2019s libraries, there\u2019s almost a growing equal amount of clunkers in the tank as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

HBO is more like a baseball player that does nothing but hit home runs.\u00a0 They curate vastly more than their television competitors, and they produce a vastly higher clip of quality programming than anyone else.\u00a0 I\u2019m currently watching Lovecraft Country <\/em>and the show that follows it in The Vow<\/em>, and both are excellent pieces of programming, and as much as I\u2019d love to binge them, I can\u2019t, because HBO is still operating in an antiquated format of releasing them weekly, an episode at a time, but there\u2019s nothing I can do about it except feel owned and sit patiently for the next installment to come out.<\/span><\/p>\n

I realize this has often been the case throughout the years, with most notably series like Game of Thrones<\/em> and then Westworld<\/em> coming out to capture the imagination and to anchor the entire network for years.\u00a0 And by proxy of such hard carries, other shows get exposure, and I have fond recollections of watching captivating series like True Detective<\/em> and The Night Of<\/em>, both of which were strong series.\u00a0 Shiny Objects<\/em> was fantastic, and even the shit that are more comic and one-offs, like Class Action Park<\/em> and 7 Days in Hell<\/em> are gold as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then, they get shit like the Watchmen<\/em> television series, and it just further proves that HBO can seemingly do no wrong.\u00a0 To pile onto all this winning, each stalwart series is always a vehicle towards the next one, with carefully curated advertising for the next hit series often placed as a preview going into the next episode of what you\u2019re really wanting to watch.<\/span><\/p>\n

The point of this whole post is really to just show a little bit of love towards HBO for constantly and consistently putting out top-notch content.\u00a0 Both Lovecraft Country and The Vow have been excellent watches, and they\u2019re one of the few indulgences mythical wife and I make time for every single week because 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way<\/em> is on hiatus, there\u2019s currently no guarantee that there\u2019s even going to be a ninth season of My 600 Lb. Life.<\/em> Frankly, in my little world HBO is the only network outside of the Discovery family of networks that remotely is worth existing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because it seems like just about everything they touch is basically gold.\u00a0 And because all they do is produce gold, they can somehow manage to not just survive, but continue to thrive releasing programming in an episodic format, whereas just about everyone else out there is being forced to drop entire series at a time … Continue reading It must be nice to be HBO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,69,125],"class_list":["post-47326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-television","tag-tlc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47328,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47326\/revisions\/47328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}