The final season begins tonight. It’s the last chapter of HBO’s “visual novel” of institutional dysfunction, and this time it’s all about media dysfunction, about the “press,” that is, the so-called watchdog of democracy, which most would agree has mostly gone off dozing or gnawing at table scraps, for the past few decades, found its place in the corner of the room! As a primer, check out the existential meta- post- post- something of an ending the creators wrote and shot but may or may not air: it kinda says it all.