[TomGuy]

It started off fairly popular, it just keep growing. The initial audience was zombie nerds, now it’s drawing fans of drama.

Initial hour viewing last Sunday was 10.99 million.

The broadcast networks would salivate over those numbers.

[discostu]

They need to tell better stories. Network shows still tend to assume audiences aren’t that bright so they dumb down the stories, the keystone for this golden age of TV drama is networks that assume the audience is smart so you can tell complex stories. And oddly enough people like being talked up to more than down to.