Yesterday was all about how Mike White set up his unlikable characters. Today we’re going to discuss how you can create a show (or movie) based around unlikable characters and still get readers invested. It’s a delicate process. But White Lotus gives us some insight into how it can be done. There are four gradations […]

I originally had no desire to watch this show. It was actually one of you guys who made me check it out. I don’t remember who said it but the comment was essentially: “This is the first show that I’ve loved where I disliked every single character.” I thought to myself, “Hmmm, that’s interesting.” For […]

If it’s not in your Inbox, check your “SPAM” and “PROMOTIONS” folders! We’ve got a good one, starting with a sneaky good show that nobody over 25 has heard of. Yet I guarantee once you start watching it, you won’t be able to stop. I give my thoughts on the current shaky state of the […]

The above is bad bad bad!!! Earlier this week, I pointed out that two out of three of Demonic’s first scenes were “sitting down and talking” scenes. I said that I knew, as soon as I watched those scenes, that the movie was doomed. “Sitting down and talking” scenes are the worst types of scenes […]

Genre: Slow-Burn Thriller/Period Premise: Set in the 1930s when a giant dust cloud had settled over Oklahoma, a mentally unstable mother and her two children must survive both the dust and a mysterious person using the cover of the dust to infiltrate her home. About: This script finished with 7 votes on the 2020 Black […]