Stephanie Bourbon: Why FRIENDS Worked So Well We Still Love It

LB’S NOTE: One of our fave TV writers-illustrators-screenwriters-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, talks about her “favorite show, ever” and why it still works so well.

FRIENDS — Pictured: (l-r) Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, Matt Le Blanc as Joey Tribbiani — Photo by: David Bjerke/NBCU Photo Bank

by Stephanie Bourbon

Today I’m talking about my favorite show, ever, in the history of shows, and there are a lot of great TV shows out there but this one is special, to me, and about a billion others.

Yes, I’m talking about FRIENDS read article

So You Want to be a ‘New Yorker’ Cartoonist

Over the years, we at TVWriter™ have known many men and women who aspired to become cartoonists for New Yorker Magazine. A couple of them have been winners of the mag’s weekly caption contest, but not a one has sold an actual original cartoon there.

Maybe this will help them – and those of you we don’t know personally. This TVWriter™ minion certainly hopes so.

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Stacey Jones: NOTHING BUT SPOILERS (Because That’s How You Learn) #8 LOKI

LOKI
S1:02 – THE VARIANT
Review by Stacey Jones

EDITOR’S ALERT: This is the  first part of Stacey Jones’ discussion of Loki and its place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Or is it the Marvel Televerse? The real universe, maybe? My mind, it be a’wondering.

Anyway, like it says in the title of this post, a world of SPOILERS awaits below the thin red line. Oh, and also an assumption that you’re familiar with the MCU! read article

Cartoon: ‘The Inner Critic’

Grant Snider lets us know exactly where he stands on a subject – emotion? state of being? – called fulfillment.

First published in the NY Times Book Review. read article

Herbie J Pilato Remembers ‘The New Dick Van Dyke Show’

Herbie J Pilato and the Celebrating Act2 YouTube channel take us down memory lane in a discussion of a Dick Van Dyke sitcom that wasn’t a hit. Lightning doesn’t just strike. We – the storm star chasers – have to give it a boost.

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