craft
How a Score Shapes a Scene
Music is the least-noticed and most manipulative tool in the kit. Understanding what it is doing changes what you see.
Theo Brennan
Stories by Theo Brennan
criticism
What Criticism Is For Now
Recommendation has been fully automated. What remains is the part algorithms cannot do — and it is the more interesting half.
criticism
The Second Season Problem
A first season answers its own question. The second has to invent a new one without discarding what worked — and most do not manage it.
criticism
Why Adaptations Fail, and What the Good Ones Do Differently
Fidelity is the wrong target. The adaptations that work identify what a story is doing and rebuild that in a different medium.
craft
How a Television Writers' Room Actually Works
The mythology is arguing around a table. The reality is a structured production process with hierarchy, deadlines and a great deal of index cards.