HBO has become “HB-bro” with its new Sunday lineup

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http://www.salon.com/2015/06/21/its_...baller_summer/

With The Brink, Ballers and True Detective, “this is a summer of man-feels,” says Sonia Soraiya. “At best, the shows use their male characters’ obsession with mothers and whores and paternity and providing for their families in a way that makes an attempt to analyze the basic contradictions of masculinity as a social construct. At worst, the man-feels are simple, unvarnished pandering to male audiences—at the expense of not just the show’s female characters, but in a larger sense, women, in general.”