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 1, 2020 | WRITING
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 reasons for South Park’s longevity and freshness through 278...
by Will | Feb 12, 2018 | WRITING, DIRECTING, THOUGHTS
Further to my recent post about it taking one hell of a storyteller to both write and direct a TV series, I thought I’d try and back it up with some evidence from the show-in-question; Waco S01E03 Operation Showtime. Visions and Omens and The Strangers Across...
by Will | Feb 7, 2018 | THOUGHTS, WRITING
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to a galaxy far, far away, Kathleen Kennedy has announced that Game of Thrones writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are the new Star Wars writers. According to the official Star Wars site, the new films “will be...
by Will | Feb 3, 2018 | COUCHPOTATO, WRITING
The show I forgot to put on my Top Twenty List of 2017 (but wouldn’t have made the top ten) looked to have become less American and less godly when it was announced American Gods new showrunner would be… Hold your horses, Louis! Let’s get a bit of...