A co-worker of mine was telling me about a wonderful new TV show she has started watching that is apparently nothing more than the video-recorded responses of people watching TV with their friends/family/whatever. So, a TV show about people watching TV. I mean, can it really get any lower than that?
Anyway....
My expectations for TD being what I wanted it to be were very low. I hadn't watched TV in years before buying TD, so I was interested to see how the Ligottian element would be baked into a detective story on American cable television. I thought it was done just about as well as it could have been considering the audience. It's all business in the end and HBO wants a product they can sell. Taking it all into account, TD was pretty damn brilliant.