User blog comment:Paul.rea/Teen Wolf News 110414/@comment-11116377-20141105080339/@comment-4091815-20141107140709

Pandering to the lowest common denominator is a major problem at CBS and the other big networks.

They trust the LCD more than they trust their creators. They honestly think that a roomful of "Vice Presidents of Nothinginparticular" using audience surveys and demographic charts can produce just as good a show as a Writer with passion and vision can.

NBC's Constantine is the most recent example of this. Not one person attached to that program showed any passion for the project. This "lack of faith" showed in the terrible, lazy writing and in the terrible lazy directing of the episodes.

Creators who are passionate (Ryan Murphy and his partners come to mind) want to make memorable television and they do it 9 of 10 times. The folks behind American Horror Story don't make the show you want to see - they make the show you can't stop watching. Same goes for "The Leftovers" which is miserable and painful to watch but impossible to stop.

Crap - I've "blogged" the comments section. Sorry -