"Since the show premiered on HBO in May I have read so much commentary online, from writers I respect, and from composers I admire, who have been praising this score to high heaven, and I cannot for the life of me understand what they are finding to praise. This is the sort of film music I dislike the most; music which dispenses entirely with any sort of emotional content and simply presents a relentless background whine of electronic nothingness, music that is either so indistinguishable from sound effects that it's rendered pointless, or is so terrible when you can hear it that it becomes an irritating distraction".