by Will | Apr 1, 2020 | WRITING
After the pilot episode aired in November, I laid out my hopes that Damnation season 1 would be the spiritual successor to Deadwood. Though its execution didn’t live up to the promise of the pilot, Tony Tost’s tale of a preacher and his strikebreaker brother remains a...
by Will | Mar 3, 2020 | WRITING
Welcome! Today, we’re going to looking at creating and writing antagonists by comparing and contrasting the villains of Fear the Walking Dead’s excellent third season with its terrible fourth. Season three made it into my Top Ten Shows of 2017 – a...
by Will | Feb 25, 2020 | REVIEWS
Sky and HBO’s Chernobyl is, quite simply, a masterclass in storytelling. Terrifying, devastating, suspenseful and beautiful, the five-part hour-long created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck begins with a sombre bookend 24 months after the...
by Will | Feb 1, 2020 | WRITING
Today, we’re gonna learn how to make Story B mirror Story A. First off, I’m not a die-hard South Park fan – I’ve probably watched three episodes in the last fifteen years but can you believe the show began its 21st season this week? One of the...
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...
