Comments on: 10 HBO Shows That Paved The Way For ‘Game Of Thrones’

By: Noah

Noah — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

lol, no. Nothing paved the way for Game of Thrones, nothing you mention was remotely like it in scope, scale, spectacle or characters. You hit a couple of shows that stepped outside the norm, but even those, not even close. And a couple that you include here are actually insulting to GoT.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

I know you guys are struggling to make money here, but can we avoid the video ads that shout at me 15 seconds into viewing a page?

By: Mimi

Mimi — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

Last nights episode of a Game of Thrones did it for me !! I'm done,,
Through lay enjoyed it until now, but when you put a baby in the snow to be picked up by the devil-that's where I call it quits,and so should all the millions of other viewers too, I'd you have any ethics or morals left in this disgusting world!

By: mike

mike — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

So…..let me get this straight: "Sex & The City" is ON the list, and "Larry Sanders" gets HONORABLE MENTION?

More and more you reveal yourselves as privileged twenty-somethings with a limited world view and too much time on that laptop you parents bought for you when you moved to the big city.

By: Cartman

Cartman — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

To put Game of Thrones in the same sentence as The Wire, CarnivÃ le, The Sopranos, Deadwood, Rome and OZ is a gigantic insult to art. GOT is embarrassing, it's mindless entertainment. The writing sucks in every season and while on The Wire you have all the best characters in TV-history, all incredibly detailed, in GOT you have characters that are just there to serve the plot, characters you don't care about and don't know anything about. The problem is that today's audiences are dumb and lazy, so obviously they see GOT as something good, while it's actually one of the worst cable series i've ever seen. It doesn't mean anything(like Breaking Bad), it doesn't say anything about anything and doesn't make us think about anything. It's not even a good entertainment product considering that basically there are 100 different series in one, in every episode. It is so incredibly shattered and confused. Season 5 will start in 10 months and yet nothing has moved since the beginning. Only people dying for whatever reason…and people walking in ancient gardens…all the time, while talking about nonsense.

By: Heartfeltman

Heartfeltman — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

Honorable Mention? John From Cincinnati?
Nothing honorable there, as the creation of this show was the death of Deadwood.

By: creambean

creambean — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

I came to this article fully ready to rail on it for not including Carnivale, Like so many other articles do. I was pleasantly surprised.

By: Eric Robert Wilkinson

Eric Robert Wilkinson — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

DEADWOOD though the fact you don't even name check TREME hurts a bit…

By: MikeH1

MikeH1 — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

EPIC GAME OF THRONES REMIX !

/watch?v=UwIsfno0hsM

By: Glen

Glen — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

Hey, I'll accuse Game of Thrones of social realism.

Martin starts with what I will flat-out call the deepest and most realistic depiction of medieval society, politics, economics and government in the history of fiction, and then gradually layers magic on top of it. Human interaction: family, love, enemies, and every other kind of interpersonal dynamic is there, and rich.

It's extremely socially realistic.

By: Bunglemas

Bunglemas — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

Ok, I'm happy with this

By: s

Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

I believe Benioff and Weiss pitched Game of Thrones to HBO as "The Sopranos in Middle Earth." I'd argue that there's really nothing out there like Game of Thrones, but in terms of complexity, The Wire is the closest comparison. All the details matter in both series.

Thanks for reminding me about the awesome show, Carnivale, that was canceled too soon. What a cliffhanger, too!

By: KL

KL — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

Yet again Playlist, decent article, shame about comments.

By: WOW

WOW — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

"And yet thanks to an outstanding cast, high production values, and perhaps most importantly, a truly remarkable job of adapting George R.R. Martin's books by showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss"

Wow. I expect so much more from The Playlist. Not a mention of the rapes and sexual violence these esteemed show-runners added? Or is a blithe nod to the fact that the sex is "sometimes" gratuitous enough for you guys? I agree, this is click-bait – but worse, it's click-bait that glorifies something which good critics should be deconstructing not propping up for the sake of a few $$.

By: benutty

benutty — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:53 +0000

this is a ridiculous post because it's literally just a list of shows that came before Game of Thrones on HBO rather than a critical assessment of things within the genre and void that GoT fills that might actually have paved the way for it. click-bait, click-bait, click-bait. sad.