SPINOFF OF GAME OF THRONES==NOT INSPIRING????

IN MY OPINION:

WILLIAM REYNOLDS:

SPINOFF OF GAME OF THRONES==NOT INSPIRING????

GAME OF MOANS

Game of Thrones kicked off its new season this week with record ratings for the series and for HBO, and debuted to near-universal critical praise. But the next partnership between the cable network and Game of Thrones show-runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss is inspiring a much less enthusiastic reaction. On Wednesday, HBO announced that after Thrones, Benioff and Weiss’s next series will be an alternative-history drama called Confederate, “where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution.” Of the announcement, VF.com’sJoanna Robinson asks, “Are these the right people to tell that story?”, pointing out that Benioff and Weiss, who are white, have come under fire for the way their series depicts race and slavery. Two creatives of color, Nichelle Tramble Spellman (Justified, The Good Wife) and Malcolm Spellman (Empire) will be co-writing and executive producing the series, but their involvement has not inoculated HBO from some blistering criticism. At the Daily Beast, after calling Confederate“stupid as hell,