Writing Without Rules: Deep Dives

Writing Without Rules: Deep Dives

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The Wire: Why Omar’s Character Ascended

Game of Thrones: Empty Calories

The Wheel of Time: My Emotions! My Emotions!

‘Malignant’ and Why Horror is The Most Powerful Genre

'Head': Less Than the Sum of Its Parts

Doctor Who: Overclocked Exposition Machine

The Chair: The ‘Everything Just Stops’ Ending

Dune: Needs More Sweat

Cheap Thrills: Late-Stage Capitalism and Human Nature

Master of None – Interpretation vs. Reality

Squid Game: Selling Desperation

Cruel Summer and The Stretch

The Shining and Dropping the Mask

Black Summer: The Verisimilitude of Incompetence

The Prisoner: Squandering Goodwill

Singin’ in The Rain and Genre Fluidity

This is Us: The Pandemic and Being Too Specific

Plan B and Party Sound Design

The Suicide Squad: Sticking the Landing

Bridgerton: Justifying Horrific Classism with Charm and Empathy

The Greatest Scene in Television History: The Wire’s Fuck Scene

The Tomorrow War and the Battle Against Stupid

‘The Plot’ and Chaining Yourself to a Twist

The Queen’s Gambit: The Iceberg Approach to Research

Lateral Thinking Puzzles and Interrogating Your Story

Half Life: How to Tell a Story without Exposition

Mad Men: It’s an Anthology, Stupid

Breaking Bad and Doing the Work

The Appeal of Hangout Sitcoms

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