One might assume that HBO’s top executive has more important things to do than have TV critics attacked via fake social media accounts. But that is what CEO Casey Bloys did in 2020 and 2021.
We might never have learned of the tactic if it hadn’t been exposed during a wrongful termination lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court this summer by a former HBO employee. Text messages unearthed in the case show Bloys discussing and later executing the plan with Kathleen McCaffrey, senior vice president of drama programming at HBO.
