Craig and John discuss a Vanity Fair article about the impending disruption of Hollywood and are unimpressed. The better question worth asking: if this were the end of the film and television industry, what signs would we look for?

Then it’s finally time to answer listener questions about folktales, translators and writers who just don’t get it.

Links:

• Scriptnotes Extra: A Refugee Story
• Their Story is Our Story
• Vale
• Hollywood is already over
• MPAA Statistics
• IMDb is shutting down its message boards
• Go IMDb Thread
• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal
• John August on Twitter
• Craig Mazin on Twitter
• John on Instagram
• Find past episodes
• Outro by Malcolm Nygard (send us yours!)

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