Nor is it to say, prudishly, that if someone’s getting naked on TV, they’re being exploited. (Though it’s especially glaring.) HBO, over the past 15 years, has made many of the best TV shows ever created that collectively they were almost all made by white guys does not make any one individually any less good. Not to pick on HBO exclusively here, since as Ryan writes, it’s not the only prestige-cable network with this diversity problem behind the scenes. That exception is more than 21 years old. With one exception over the course of four decades, HBO has not aired an original one-hour drama or dramatic miniseries creatively led at its debut by a person of color. With one exception over the course of four decades, HBO has not aired an original one-hour drama series created by a woman. The second is Maureen Ryan’s disturbing investigation of how and why the current glory days of cable drama are, by and large, the glory days of white-male storytellers: Seems to me if people want to see naked people doing it, there’s this thing called “the internet.” There’s not a great deal of nudity in the series at all, though, compared to other shows on pay-cable. Now, you’re not going to get our two lead movie stars to go full-frontal, but we at least got Matthew’s butt in there. Here is a clear mandate in pay-cable for a certain level of nudity. The first is Kate Aurthur’s long interview with True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto, which is fascinating on a number of topics, not least for his answer to criticisms of the show’s women characters–and to the question of why said women are so often naked: If you’re excited for True Detective‘s finale Sunday, or simply care about good TV in general, there are two pieces you should read today.
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