[epmaybe]

“Up to”

[kleiba]

True. So, in the worst case, there was a single week where he earned that.

[grogenaut]

It's a newspaper article. It's very likely there was one week he was paid for the previous 5 years of messing around with a script all at once. Or it was actually a week and he holed up with some director for a week to save a show off the rails. Is this how the final season of game of thrones happened?

[simonw]

The New Yorker have an extremely strong reputation for fact-checking every detail in every one of their stories.

A couple of fun New Yorker stories about that: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/02/09/checkpoints and https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/daniel-radclif...

I'd be really interested to hear what their fact-checkers came up with for this $300,000/week note!