VIDEO : Game of Thrones Team's Next Show Causes A Stir

People Are Pretty Angry About The Game of Thrones Team's Next Show HBO's Confederate takes place in an alternative timeline where slavery was never abolished. Getty Yesterday, HBO announced their newest, and very questionable new series: Confederate, a show written by two white men and set in an alternative future in which the South won the Civil War and slavery was never abolished. Here's the official synopsis for this upcoming project from Game of Thrones producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, as released by HBO last night.