HBO's latest miniseries, The Regime, fizzled out with a buzzless finale, just the latest in a concerning line of flops for the once-prolific network.
25 years ago, an HBO Sunday show meant you were going to be seeing the best of the best. It was the destination of must-watch prestige TV, fromtook over the Sunday night drama slot with all the finishings of a classic HBO series. It comes from writer Will Tracy, who previously served as a writer on. Star Kate Winslet has become a fixture of the dramatic HBO miniseries, taking home a Leading Actress in a Miniseries Emmy for.
The finale leans all in to the tension, but just can’t make it all work since it lost sight of its characters long ago. All that’s left is the plotting and scheming and working to put Kate Winslet’s Chancellor Elena back into a new version of the status quo. The ending is an affirmation of what consequences authoritarian leaders really face , but it lacks any true reward for our time spent watching.
A miniseries used to be an event that was easy for viewers to hop on board. The rest of television was 22-episode network serials or 13-episode cable treats. Now, people are dying for a season that has more than 10 episodes on a streaming service. And that’s in addition to the fact that anything billed as a miniseries can just change its mind if people are interested the network is still figuring out what its new era looks like.
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