Reply #42: An "evidence based series"? Gee, why don't you just call it a documentary?

[JackRiddler]

Hello? It's a fictional miniseries "based on a true story," as they say, for broadcast explicitly as entertainment. To get ratings, rent DVDs, get HBO subscribers to renew, win prizes, etc. Which is not to say it can't be right or wrong on the facts, or good or bad as a work of art (very doubtful). But all you're doing here is to repeat the program PR ("evidence based examination!") as though it's a sufficient proof in itself. Why not call it a charitable gift to the world, while you're at it? I'm sure they're planning to do it at a financial loss for the good of the nation, and Hanks will donate his share to a fashionable disease, and it's positively criminal of me to hope this particular TV series flops, right?

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