Without mercy. HBOHe just fired the writer, creator, and producer of the indispensable series of our time like ‘The Wire’, who owes a great deal to David Simon.‘Generation kill’, ‘Treme’, ‘Show me a hero’, ‘The Deuce’, ‘Conspiracy against America’ and ‘The city is ours’ supported the writers’ strike Americans Studios and platforms that dominate the audiovisual industry are spending them in the 21st century. Now who will produce the series as good as the ones mentioned? Isn’t strike a fundamental right in almost all civilized countries? Yesterday we were able to see actor Rob Lowe join the cause and speak to some of the strikers who were demonstrating outside the entrance to the Paramount studios. Christopher Nolan and his brother Jonathan – creator and producer of ‘Watched’. Person of Interest’ and ‘Westworld’ also expressed their solidarity with the strikers and were photographed with ‘writers guild on strike’ signs. Will they stop publishing ‘Oppenheimer’ because of this ‘undisciplined’ act of someone like Christopher Nolan, who is also the screenwriter of their films?
Fifteen years ago, there was already a similar conflict in the field of television series, which had an almost immediate effect: some productions scheduled at that time were cut in half from 20 or 24 episodes due to the writers’ strike, and this format is now commanding, consisting of 10, eight or six episodes. is the section. Simon is a good example of a previously attuned writer: ‘The Wire’, which aired in 2002, consisted of 60 episodes divided into five seasons, with an average of 12 each. But while this is important, what defines Simon is his ‘Shakespearean’ ability to create characters, situations, settings, plot and subplots a scenario never seen before on television, and in general these series defined American reality the way few do: drugs, police wiretapping, the effects of Hurricane Katrina, the rise of the porn industry, local politics, the Iraq war, and police corruption.
Without Simon, this century’s quality television would be incomprehensible. And above all, the prestige that HBO has earned for the most innovative series. Now he is accused of supporting the legitimate rights of the screenwriters—Simon is right above all else. more reasonable salaries and minimum stability to carry out their work. Because while scripts today aren’t made of iron as Billy Wilder would like, they’re becoming more and more flexible and it’s true that any variation in the shooting and editing stages of a series or a movie is allowed. what they give a definite shape to the work is nothing without a starting script.
“I was doing the right thing the day HBO called me to suspend my contract after 25 years of writing television for them,” Simon wrote on his Twitter account. HBO has made a good transition from cable television to streaming, thanks to Simon’s series, among other productions. We’ll see if the calloused author, who accompanied the activities of the Baltimore homicide gang for 12 months while he was a journalist, is a direct precursor to an experience in which the book ‘Homicide, a year on the street of death’ emerged. ‘Phone’, shut up, allow or counterattack. The rest of the companies became equally belligerent with the striking screenwriters. In any case, for Simon and HBO The sad end of an extraordinarily clear and creative age.