The original post: /r/television by /u/maxwdn on 2025-04-14 21:43:09.
If this show continues with that kind of quality, even if it will only be for two other seasons, it will genuinely reach the HBO big leagues - and in effect the best of all time.
There are some oldschool production things in here that I miss, so f*cking much, in the current television market:
- It’s an ensemble piece made up of mostly unknown, but highly trained, and very thoroughly cast actors
- character writing has every character in their distinct set of certain characteristics
- it’s tiny in scope, but colossal in depth, taking place in barely more than one location yet threading so much narratives into it with so much emotion to them
- it knows what the audience will actually find important: the authenticity, the work - and uses that as a cheat code to build actual connections to the characters
- I feel like I know the characters. I feel like they all are actually working there. There is no Bad or evil here, no cliches, no stereotyping, no writing tricks or anything like it. It reminds me so much of Six Feet Under and Deadwood in this regard.
I could go on for hours. I could write a paper on this show. I haven’t empathized with a show this much since I’ve seen the HBO big hits.
This has the potential to be spoken of in the same sentence as Deadwood, The Wire, or Six Feet Under.
It is THAT good and - without using hyperbole - arguably the best show to air across all platforms and networks since 2018s Succession.
EDIT: Apparently I misunderstood and Max does not immediately equal HBO. I’m not from the US and I apologize for the confusion.