The only thing more perversely satisfying than loving a TV show nobody else seems to appreciate is learning that show actually has a passionate, outsized following, and the suits who canceled it must now face the fact that they were WRONG WRONG WRONG. Some of the shows below were killed long before their time; others found a […]
Four years on, I’m still shocked by the massive success of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Sure, I expected it to look pretty (it’s HBO after all), and as a fan of George R.R. Martin’s books, I knew the story and characters could more than sustain a weekly narrative. But the fantasy trappings—court politics, warring kings, magical priestesses, heroes […]