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WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE:

THE BEST STAR TREK: DISCOVERY EPISODE SO FAR

by Will | Jan 28, 2020 | REVIEWS

Star Trek: Discovery, why can’t you be like S01E13 all the time? Taking its name from a quote from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, What’s Past is Prologue was a relentless, breathless, warp factor 8 ride through everything Star Trek should be...

AGENTS OF SHIELD SEASON 5:

HOW LIMITED LOCATIONS LIMIT YOUR STORY

by Will | Jan 24, 2020 | DIRECTING

After a stupendous fourth season introduced brilliantly overt political subtexts to a wonderfully immersive, illusory and dystopian Agents of HYDRA mirror-universe, I was expecting great things from writers D.J. Doyle, the Zuckerman sisters et al… but alas....

WACO S01E06 “DAY 51”

WHY IT’S A WRITERS JOB TO TELL THE TRUTH

by Will | Jan 23, 2020 | THOUGHTS

After a somewhat meandering, ponder-some start, Paramount Network’s six-part mini-series, Waco really kicked into gear once the actual siege began to play out. The series went from strength to strength, culminating in a powerful finalé entitled Day 51. I...

MIRROR WORLD-BUILDING:

WHAT’S WRONG WITH COUNTERPART’S UNIVERSES?

by Will | Jan 8, 2020 | DIRECTING

When Counterpart launched its first episode two full months before we’d get to see the second, it seemed a fresh and original concept. A gripping idea of an alternate universe accessible only from a subterranean door under a grey, Kafka-esque Berlin government...

BETTER CALL SAUL’S NEXT SEASON:

VINCE GILLIGAN SHARES SOME WRITING TIPS

by Will | Jan 3, 2020 | THOUGHTS

“No man is an island,” they say. Except for one man – madly panicking Breaking Bad creator and Better Call Saul Season 4 writer, Vince Gilligan. He’s an island… Gilligan’s Island. Erik Adams, A.V. Club TV editor from the excellent...

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