Never one to mince words or shy away from criticizing other people’s devotions, author Salman Rushdie came out swinging in a recent interview with Israeli website Haaretz, discussing the upcoming series he’s scripting for Showtime by putting a few of his would-be competitors in their place. Rushdie says he’s been brushing up on cable dramas to prepare, and although he spoke favorably of The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Dexter, and Deadwood, he didn’t have totally kind words for two other oft-vaunted shows: “There was a series called Game of Thrones which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing,” Rushdie says. “It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage—because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun. In the end, it's well-produced trash, but there's room for that, too." Clearly on a roll, Rushdie even went after cable television’s most sacred cow: “Everybody loves The Wire and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series,” Rushdie says. See? This is the sort of cockiness that surviving a fatwa encourages. [via Vulture]