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Jewel euphoria hbo12/8/2023 ![]() ![]() We want to make the audience feel things.”Īchievement unlocked. He and I are cut from the same vaudevillian cloth. “It was ‘I think this will be better for the audience.’ And he was right. But because the suggestion came from Bloys, he knew it was made for the right reasons. Mazin’s first instinct was to panic at the note. And my audience gut is telling me we should turn this into one big one, because the ending of what was going to be the second episode is such a great ending, it will drive people forward,’” recalls Mazin. “Casey said, ‘Hey, look, I’ve watched the first two episodes. That’s why initially, Bloys felt the first episode of “The Last of Us” was missing an emotional coda that would hook viewers. There’s plenty of action and horror, but the show’s relationships drive the narrative. Pedro Pascal stars as Joel, a smuggler who winds up on a journey with young teen Ellie (Bella Ramsey), who may harbor a potential cure. “The Last of Us” takes place 20 years after a mass fungal pandemic wipes out much of the population - turning humans into grotesque, hungry zombies. You want someone who’s got an unshakable knowledge of ‘Here’s the way we see the world, here are the themes we’re going for.’ The more he knows about it and the more excited he is, the better it is for us.” “You want someone who is so invested in the world and knows why things happen, why they wouldn’t happen, so you can have a real conversation and a real back-and-forth. “I don’t even play video games, but we were betting on Craig, not the game,” Bloys says. But Mazin had just delivered HBO a surprise smash with the 2019 miniseries “Chernobyl,” and Bloys was confident he’d have another winner with whatever Mazin was most passionate about. Bloys hadn’t heard of the Naughty Dog/Sony PlayStation game - nor had his head of drama programming, Francesca Orsi - before TV writer Craig Mazin brought it in to them as a prospect. Most recently, Bloys’ skill has been borne out with “The Last of Us,” the new HBO drama series that has become a rare example of a hit video game adaptation, embraced by both discerning HBO viewers and players of the game (originally written by Neil Druckmann, who also worked on the show). Richard Plepler, HBO’s long-serving CEO, who left the company in 2019 after the AT&T takeover of Time Warner, offers even higher praise for Bloys’ achievements since he took on oversight of HBO’s original programming in 2016: “I would go as far as to say that the best decision that I made as CEO was making Casey head of programming.” What I think we all agree on is that we need to do is preserve and protect the HBO brand.” And that’s what we’re talking about right now. ![]() “Especially if we’re going to have a lot more reality programming, lifestyle programming, how much more do we want the HBO brand to take on?” Bloys says. Pimple Popper” - do what they do well, they probably shouldn’t be on an HBO-branded streaming service.) While some shows rolling into the combined service - think “Dr. (And if it does become “Max,” Bloys is fine with that. The name for the platform is TBD, although “Max” appears to be in the lead. The result is the strongest HBO in history.”īloys is also at the forefront of the next big shift in streaming, as he oversees the programming on a new mega-service combining HBO Max and Discovery+ this spring. “He is the master class of nurturing and developing great creatives outside and inside HBO and curating amazing content. ![]() “It’s the most important job in media,” says Warner Bros. How to explain to people why something is good, why we should put our name and our money behind something.” ![]() “And it was at a point in my career where I was learning how to be an advocate for a show. “I truly thought and continue to think the show is funny,” Bloys says. But Bloys, then the network’s young head of comedy, knew McBride had something with the show. HBO brass weren’t sure “Eastbound” fit their high-end brand. “Eastbound” revolved around Kenny Powers, a washed-up, foulmouthed, amoral former professional baseball player who heads home to North Carolina. When the series premiered in February 2009, HBO was still known for its New York-centric (“Sex and the City”) and Hollywood-set (“Entourage”) comedies. Casey Bloys was about four years into his tenure as a programming executive at HBO when he was driven to champion a project that was disliked by others at the network.Īt first blush, the brilliantly raunchy Danny McBride comedy “Eastbound & Down” might have seemed out of place among the erudite offerings on HBO. ![]()
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