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"Succession," "Extrapolations," and TV Writing Today (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry and Will Arbery)

Know Your Enemy

CHAPTER

How to Make a Good Movie

I think it's really, really hard to make something that is sincere, not seem cringy. The goal has been like, how can you just feel a little worse about the lunch that you just ate and the shower that you just took? And the basic aspects of your daily life, what if you just approached them with slightly more guilt and shame? That's a really unpleasant narrative space to be in. So I think we were trying to makeSomething that was entertaining, that was interesting, that did not leave people with a sort of pit in their stomach about their own choices. But it was really challenging.

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