Just another primetime soap with the usual dark shit – murder, arson, we-all-know-the-drill – added?
Or is this new pilot, written by Chris Hutton and Eddie O’Keefe and directed by film buffs’ delight Brett Morgen really worth the response more than one TVWriter™ minion gave it:
This one’s coming to Hulu as an original, and odds are that we’ll all have a chance to see what’s up.
Writing a script? A novel? A short story?
Then you have characters who need names, and not just any name, but a name that sticks, a name that echoes, a name that sounds good coming from an actor’s lips or on the pages of a script or manuscript. So, as with most everything, there’s a good side and a bad side.
The good side – you’re god when it comes to your story. You’re the one who creates the characters and tags them with the names that will stay with them…and with you throughout the process of writing said script or novel. Yay!?
NOTE FROM LB:
An early night of freedom for the Navajo Dog and me after I left L.A. I had never understood the value of having a knowing, loving – albeit impatient as hell teacher – till then.
When Kid Hollywood made his escape from the
Time for TVWriter™’s Monday look at our 5 most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are, in order:
Speaking of Grant Snider, as we did back on Tuesday, Grant the Greatest has a new book coming out April 18, 2017. I haven’t read it yet – as a book – but I know it’s going to be sensational because I have read or looked at – or whatever words you use when you’re perusing a collection of cartoons – just about everything the man has ever posted on the interwebs, and his entire body of work has been, in a word, wonderful.
The new book, The Shape of Ideas, An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity, is an amazingly beautiful and uncommonly perceptive look at creativity by one of the most creative cartoonists since Thomas Nast. Published by Abrams Books, the hardcover edition in particular promises to be magical.
And that’s at the very least.