Said this before but I do want to credit "Homecoming", because when I first watched it I thought it would be another stylishly nonsensical Peak TV show, but I actually thought the plot worked very well and actually had meaningful arcs/twists/climaxes...at least S1...but still.
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IDK if that's just because it followed the podcast source material or what...but I remember thinking "oh wow this is actually about something other than camera angles and padding the runtime!".
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I wonder if it's easier for TV shows to work narratively when they're closely following something originally written in some other medium...the pure TV writing process doesn't seem great at uh, story structure...
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I'm repeating myself yet again. But really I do wonder if the TV writing process just isn't made for the kinds of stories we're trying to jam through it these days.
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So when something is based on a book, a play, a tight pitch, something that already existed, the writing holds together much more than when the same show has to move into "pure TV writing"...is the hypothesis...
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People probably work on their "S1 pitch" for years and then end up having to write S2 in two weeks with executives screaming at them.
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Hah a friend of mine loved the "Mad Men" pilot but said "I didn't bother watching the rest, that seemed to sum it up"...and are they wrong, really.https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1287563805283631104?s=19 …
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Pinboard @PinboardReplying to @xenocryptsiteOr they're told to put the whole season arc they planned out in the pilot. I thought Mad Men would be a slow five-season burn as Don Draper's efforts to hide his identity became more frantic. Turns out—nope, it was an unnecessary gimmick quickly disposed of.3 replies 1 retweet 10 likesShow this thread
On that specific show, they are, because the whole joy of it was seeing costume designers with an unlimited budget romp their way through the sixties and seventies
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