by Larry Brody
…And I actually watched two complete Season 3 episodes before writing this. If that doesn’t qualify as above and beyond the call of duty, what does?
Hmm, I guess that’s the review.
Okay, you talked me into it. Here’s a little more:
Category: Opinion
What Exactly Does “Written By” Mean?
Hint from LB: Not what it used to.
Oh, man, this article really makes me feel old:
by Justin Halpern
The other night I was sitting and watching television with a good friend of mine. He works as a paramedic and couldn’t give two shits about the entertainment industry. We were watching a rerun of The Simpsons, specifically, the one where Sideshow Bob tries to kill Bart and destroy television in Springfield. It’s one of those classic Simpsons episodes where every line is quotable, and afterward my friend said “Whoever wrote that one is a fucking genius.”
LB Sees ALMOST HUMAN
The Good:
- The pilot looked just like BLADE RUNNER
- The pilot story repeated the key elements of BLADE RUNNER beat by beat
- It wasn’t created by or written by Kurtzman & Orci
The Not So Good:
OMG…WALKING DEAD’s Frank Darabont Used the S Word
For the record, that word would be “sociopaths.”
Gotta love this dood. Of all the people on TVWriter™, only our BLLB can possibly imagine what he went through.
What are we talking about? This:
LB: Some Thoughts About Syd Field on the Sad Occasion of His Demise
Syd Field died last Sunday in Beverly Hills. He was 77. You probably already know that if you’re the kind of person most of TVWriter™’s visitors are.
I first heard about yesterday but decided to give myself a day or two to think about Syd and what he’s meant to the screenwriting and by extension the television writing communities.