The Big Picture Game of Thrones was initially pitched as a “grounded” series to HBO executives, with creators Benioff and Weiss promising that it would be much cheaper than it ultimately turned out to be. Despite the initial promise, Game of Thrones became one of the most expensive TV series ever, with a budget that … Read more
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem—an adaptation of the first book in Liu Cixin’s highly acclaimed sci-fi trilogy—asks a lot of big questions and puts its characters through some agonizing decisions. But at its core, the show grapples with one big dilemma: whether or not humanity is worth saving from a threat that feels both existential and … Read more
Photo: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Last week, it was revealed that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had been buying up lots of land in Hawaii at an accelerating clip. Benioff, who is worth billions and billions of dollars, has procured approximately $100 million in land parcels throughout the Big Island via a series of nondescript LLCs. … Read more
The Big Picture Before David Benioff and D.B. Weiss could get George R. R. Martin’s approval to make Game of Thrones they had to answer Martin’s question about Jon Snow’s parentage. The popular theory that Jon Snow’s real parents are Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, known as R + L = J, was already circulating … Read more