Police Squad! has a notorious history that’s been told many times over by now, a brilliant comedy by Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker that ran for all of six episodes in 1982 before ABC pulled it, famously saying that the comedy was too smart for their viewers and required too much attention. While revealing a sad truth about […]
Try not to write when you’re living here! -Rosemary Howard (Carrie Fisher), 30 Rock As The Solute’s Grant Nebel has written, drama is a subtractive genre. Everything that isn’t an action by the characters reduces our identification with the characters. To maintain this kind of focus, though, a story must often sacrifice detail. The Shield held to […]
But most important of all is the structure of the incidents. For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality. Now character determines men’s qualities, but it is by their actions that […]
There’s a bit in Bill Burr’s outstanding 2014 Netflix standup special, I’m Sorry You Feel That Way, where he discusses his upbringing. Specifically, he talks about how his mother used to never hug him, and she eventually explained that “Your father was afraid it would turn you kids gay.” This seems to be a […]
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