CAROLYN STRAUSS (PRESIDENT, HBO ENTERTAINMENT): They were all really good, but if you put a gun to my head and said, “Pick your favorite season,” that fourth season to me was just killer. On a macro level, yeah, it was a big political statement, but on the micro level, watching those kids go through that, it was just killer. Not in a good way. It was a good way, but it was really so visceral watching that happen.

