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In 2012, Noah Baumbach and Jonathan Franzen teamed up to work on a television adaptation of Franzen's breakthrough novel The Corrections for HBO. Starring Ewen McGregor, Dianne Wiest, Chris Cooper, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, the resulting pilot was something of a disaster and was quietly shelved by the network. Filming was never completed, it also never aired, and few people who weren't involved in its production have seen it.
But we have! In this episode, Erin, Alex, and Eric are joined by Variety TV Critic Daniel D'Addario to discuss what works and what doesn't in this strange relic of the early years of "peak TV."
