"HBO series have a lot of credibility, in general, as well. So I'll hold my breath that it doesn't paint indie/startup developers as total screw-ups."
I'll give them benefit of the doubt. As a huge fan of 24/7 for Hockey, they've given incredible insight into the game that nearly all fans of hockey and documentaries can enjoy.
I'm excited for the fictional game concepts they develop over the course of the show (if it happens). And I hope they release those concepts as real games as a part of the show's marketing.
Basically, HBO has a "half hour" department, which does basically all comedies, and a "one hour" department which are generally dramas. This show will be a drama, but since it's in the "half-hour" department, it's organizationally known as "comedy".
Trivia: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was the first BBC Radio Comedy to be recorded in stereo. This was bureaucratically impossible, so it was initially classified as a Radio Drama.
That's a lot of solid movies. I have a hard time believing he'd take something so solid and totally screw it up.
HBO series have a lot of credibility, in general, as well. So I'll hold my breath that it doesn't paint indie/startup developers as total screw-ups.