Color me dubious. Just check out Rudin's work on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748784/
That's a lot of solid movies. I have a hard time believing he'd take something so solid and totally screw it up.
HBO series have a lot of credibility, in general, as well. So I'll hold my breath that it doesn't paint indie/startup developers as total screw-ups.