18.30: Planting Supernatural Seeds
Writing Excuses
Shades of Milk and Honey in Dark One Forgotten
There's a difference between genres that are aesthetically driven and genres that are super structurally driven. If you are going from romance into a horror thriller, you need to deliver completely different promises. I got very frustrated because it does the opposite of what you're talking about Mary Robinette where the set dressing remains the same throughout the whole show. One maybe useful counter example is the Mike Flanagan and dad adaptation of the haunting of Hill House. The first few episodes are very frightening. And then by the end, that horror kind of goes away as the themes of the story evolve.
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