In reply to: Out of curiosity posted by osbournecox
1. they recently lost their President https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/hbo-ceo-richard-plepler-resignation-ominous-for-att-warner-buy.html
2. They have stuck to their weird distribution model that marries them unnecessarily to cable.
3. They couldn't control D&D. Despite the availability of funds and demands from viewers they rushed this season and it has showed (see rotten tomatoes reviews)
4. They have stuck with the weekly release schedule instead of netflix style season dump that consumers have shown a preference for
5. Their original content severely lags that of netflix
Though I posted in jest I do think there is something wrong with HBO and the spectacle of this season supports that.
You mentioned Soprano's but HBO was leading the pack at that time with innovative content that couldn't be found elsewhere. They were doing so well that fans were buying the content in media such as DVDs.
Times have changed and HBO has shown it isn't adapting well while also moving away from its core competency of high quality content. Change my mind.
clearly indicates the end of the network.
that everyone is still talking about years later.
For weeks on end, until they didn't (they also didn't like the last season either, but that's just too much crazy. People forget the ratings were way down, and there was a lot of internet hand wringing over the body counts and other turns the last season took).
I remember the episode when Tony finally kills Chris and heads to Vegas to smoke peyote pissing a ton of people on the interwebs off.
much of the internet is the YouTube comments section.
Until it is over.
A few weeks ago I reminded him of it. He replied, "Game of Thrones? I am VINDICATED!"
pen a successful ending to anything.
* This conveniently applies to both the Game of Thrones the TV show and A Song of Ice and Fire the book series.
worked out great