Serialized television needs to have a good ending that sticks the landing, as otherwise all people are going to talk about is how the ending was a bunch of stupid bullshit. No one’s going to talk about Dexter without bringing up him becoming a lumberjack; same thing with the strained and overt Christ metaphor at
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Before I get into episode 9 (“Burned”), I would like to talk about the writer hiring process on Justified. Taylor Elmore, VJ Boyd and Leonard Chang all have written or contributed to scripts for this season. The path to working on Justified is clear: have a name that contains either a character’s or the author’s
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Hang on to your cravats because Producer Beth joins Skinner to talk about adventures in Publishing and the strange, strange world of Jane Austen fan fiction. Plugs! Josh Hollis, Sophmore Lit Podcast, ‘The Songbird’ on A Happy Assembly.
You know that movie where the average, normal guy, played by a handsome Hollywood hunk, meets an equally regular and relatable woman, played by a bodacious babe. Not that one, you know the one where they fall in love then fight then make up and get married and have a baby. No, the one where
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It sucks to be a minor character on Justified, right? Especially if you’re of the criminal persuasion. The only show I can think of that has a similarly high body count is Oz, and that had the virtue/explanation of being set in a prison. More often than not, when a character on the wrong side
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