HBO's "The Night Of" (Season 1)

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Originally Posted by Shingster

You do realise this is a remake, don't you surfdude? The reason Turtorro's role changed that way was because they were adapting a pre-existing story and in the original story the equivalent of Turtorro's role was considerably smaller still. All the plotpoints you complain about were major plotpoints in the original source material.

You just made my argument for me - nothing wrong with keeping Turturro's role small throughout. The dumb move was giving him a leading role and then pulling it back to supporting.