by Erik Bork | Apr 4, 2019
One of my favorite new series in recent years was PEN15 on Hulu. It’s co-creators and stars play versions of themselves at age 13. They’re best friends and outcasts at the beginning of seventh grade, in the year 2000. Amazingly, they’re surrounded by...
by Erik Bork | Oct 29, 2016
One of the most frequent and important types of notes I give on scripts is to question whether something seems REAL. Another way of saying it is this: “Does the situation and what people are doing and saying seem BELIEVABLE? Would this happen in the real world?...
by Erik Bork | Jan 4, 2014
I eventually watched HBO’s THE WIRE, over a decade after its five-year run began. Once I started, I found myself binge-watching through the first three seasons. This show was never a clear hit with audiences, and didn’t win many major awards. But WGA screenwriters...
by Erik Bork | Jun 28, 2013
I couldn’t resist creating a chart that breaks down the recent WGA member-voted “Best written series of all time” by decade and type of show. What conclusions, if any, can be drawn from this? (If you have trouble viewing the document below, you might...
