Writing Without Rules: Deep Dives

Writing Without Rules: Deep Dives

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‘Stick’: Several Cliches Standing on Each Other’s Shoulders, Wearing a Trenchcoat

‘Mountainhead’ and Weightless Storytelling

‘Sirens’ Sets Its Sights Too High

‘Your Friends and Neighbors’ Loses the Thread

‘Hacks’ and the Character Loop

‘Babygirl’ and The Character Vacuum

‘The Last of Us’ Season 2: YMMV

‘The Conclave’ is Just a Thriller in Costume

‘Companion’ and Timing the Twist

‘The White Lotus’ and Dumb Character Syndrome

‘Y2K’: Premise and Nothing Else

‘Joker: Folie à Deux’: Reversing the Interest Polarity

‘Wolfs’ and Charismatic Personality Disorder

‘The Apartment’ and Visual World-building

‘Smile 2’ and The Art of the Unlikable Protagonist

‘Mythic Quest’ and the Doom of (Fictional) Men

‘Slow Horses’ Sweats the Small Stuff

‘Severance’ and Subtle World Building

‘Saturday Night’ and The Moron Line

‘Shrinking’ Shows the Seams

‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Overdoes It

‘A Quiet Place: Day One’: Shhhhhhh, Don’t Startle the Cat

‘Cuckoo’ and Aggravating Tease

Squid Game Season 2: Acing the Sequel

‘Colin from Accounts’ and Overcringe

This Is Why You Suck: The Take That and 'The Morning Show'

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