One critic actually told me afterwards that the session made him realize that a lot of the nuance he ascribed to the show wasn’t really there. They seemed baffled by the idea that anyone would not find the show 100% sympathetic towards the Lincolns, or that anyone would be troubled by their depiction of the network suits, since virtually every single thing in the series had happened to either them or someone they knew. Then a few days after the show debuted, Showtime held an “Episodes” session at press tour, and I specifically asked David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik about that. Maybe the executives were exaggerated but not always unreasonable. Maybe they weren’t always supposed to be right. Maybe the show wanted us to be annoyed with the Lincolns sometimes, too. I’ve heard from some critics and fans of the show who feel I was too harsh towards it – and, specifically, that my attempt to paint it as a predictably black-and-white, “artists=good, executives=evil” morality tale was inaccurate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now the finale has aired, and I have a few final thoughts – and am interested in the opinions of those of you who stuck it out all the way through – coming up just as soon as bus in some real people… That review was based on all 7 episodes of the series, and because my issues remained largely the same throughout, I decided not to bother doing any show-by-show posts. While “Episodes” has had its fans among a number of TV critics, I was not one of them, for reasons I described in detail in my review before the season began.
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