Welcome to Scriptnotes NOTES – the first in a series of Pomonok NOTES podcasts – where host Teresa Jusino delves into the craft and career of screenwriting through the lens of a queer, neurodivergent, Jewish Latina grappling with what she's learned from two of her industry role models -- John August and Craig Mazin of the Scriptnotes podcast.

Episode 4 is called This Feeling Will Return…But We Can Handle It, and Teresa’s decided to save the trope wrap-up for next week to spend time acknowledging the current state of our country, talk about the point of film and TV in all that, and share how she intends to take action in the ongoing fight against fascism. 

SHOWNOTES: 

• Scriptnotes Episode #722: Orality, or Writing to be Spoken

• Scriptnotes Extra: This Feeling Will End (November 9, 2016)

• How Will the Miracle Happen Today? By Kevin Kelly (January 4, 2026)

• WGA Post about the National Day of Action Rally at LA City Hall on FRIDAY, JAN 30. 

• Street Medic 101 Training information from @spirit.ofthelion on Instagram

• L.A. Progressive Shooters

• Radical Monarchs

• Stand With Minnesota - lists several ways to help 

• The Revolutionary Love Project

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CREDITS:

Host/Executive Producer: Teresa Jusino

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Produced by: ⁠Pomonok Podcasts⁠ 

Edited by: Teresa Jusino

Logo design by: Teresa Jusino

Scriptnotes NOTES: Because even the best creators need notes.

NEXT Scriptnotes NOTES: Ep 5: The Make-Up Trope Wrap-Up

Release date: Wednesday, February 4

Welcome to Scriptnotes NOTES: the first in a series of Pomonok NOTES podcasts where host Teresa Jusino will delve into the craft and career of screenwriting through the lens of a queer, neurodivergent, Jewish Latina grappling with what she's learned from two of her industry role models -- John August and Craig Mazin of the Scriptnotes podcast.

Episode 3 is called Double Standards Are the Worst, and it starts with a conversation in Episode #275 of Scriptnotes where John and Craig talk about a piece in The Atlantic on how rom-coms “undermine women.” We’ll talk about how there’s a huge difference in the way certain behaviors are perceived depending on the gender of the character doing the thing as well as a difference in how certain behaviors are handled depending on the gender of the show or film’s creators. 

SHOWNOTES: 

• Scriptnotes Episode #275: English is not Latin

• How Rom-Coms Undermine Women by Megan Garber (November 1, 2016 at The Atlantic)

• Remove Paywall – always pay for quality journalism when you can. But if you can’t, this site can help. 

• ‘Gilmore Girls’ Set Up Dean's Downfall In Its Very First Episode & It Took Me 25 Years To Realize It by Tom Russell (May 17, 2025 at Screen Rant)

• ‘Love Actually's Keira Knightley Shares How She Fixed Cue Card Scene to Make It Less "Creepy” by Leah Degrazia (December 6, 2024 at E! News)

• Deadline Junkies - writing group

• LatinXorcists - horror/genre-centric writing group for Latine writers

• The Waystation, Part 1: ELENA - my series of 1-minute videos for Instagram Reels as one 10-min video using elements of an hour-long spec pilot I was working on (2018)

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CREDITS:

Host/Executive Producer: Teresa Jusino

Bluesky/ ⁠TikTok⁠ / Tumblr / Instagram / Threads / YouTube

Produced by: ⁠Pomonok Podcasts⁠ 

Edited by: Teresa Jusino

Logo design by: Teresa Jusino

Scriptnotes NOTES: Because even the best creators need notes.

NEXT Scriptnotes NOTES: Ep 4: January Trope Wrap-Up

Release date: Wednesday, January 28 

Welcome to Scriptnotes NOTES: the first in a series of Pomonok NOTES podcasts where host Teresa Jusino will delve into the craft and career of screenwriting through the lens of a queer, neurodivergent, Jewish Latina grappling with what she's learned from two of her industry role models -- John August and Craig Mazin of the Scriptnotes podcast.

Episode 2 is called Friends, Property, and Other Romantic Designations, because too many films and TV shows prioritize romantic relationships over friendship while treating those in romantic relationships like property or animals. She dips back into Scriptnotes #697 to talk about Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ before jumping over to Scriptnotes #313 to talk about whether men and women can be friends (SPOILER ALERT: they can) and how screenwriters have the power to create cultural debates and dispel them.

SHOWNOTES: 

• Scriptnotes Episode #697: We Wrote a Book!

• Scriptnotes Episode #313: Well, It Worked in the 80s

• Edge of Tomorrow’s Angel of Verdun: Nuanced Female Characters by Teresa Jusino (October 20, 2015 at The Mary Sue)

• Patterns and Universals of Mate Poaching Across 53 Nations: The Effects of Sex, Culture, and Personality on Romantically Attracting Another Person's Partner by D.P. Schmitt for the International Sexuality Description Project (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004)

• Olga Koch (@kolga300 on TikTok) bit about Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’

• The Hero’s Quest

• Teresa Jusino (@teresajusino711 on TikTok) talks about spouses each having their own friends, no matter their gender

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CREDITS:

Host/Executive Producer: Teresa Jusino

Bluesky/ ⁠TikTok⁠ / Tumblr / Instagram / Threads / YouTube

Produced by: ⁠Pomonok Podcasts⁠ 

Edited by: Teresa Jusino

Logo design by: Teresa Jusino

Scriptnotes NOTES: Because even the best creators need notes.

NEXT Scriptnotes NOTES:

Ep 3: Double-Standards Are the Worst

Release date: Wednesday, January 21 

Welcome to Scriptnotes NOTES: the first in a series of Pomonok NOTES podcasts. SNN will be 52 episodes over the next year where host Teresa Jusino will delve into the craft and business of screenwriting through the lens of a queer, neurodivergent, Jewish Latina grappling with what she's learned from two of her industry role models -- John August and Craig Mazin of the Scriptnotes podcast. Episode 1 is called She’s Not ‘Manic’ Just Because She Makes You Insecure, because Teresa is so over people applying film trope labels to actual, real-life people. She gets into Scriptnotes #697 and John and Craig’s conversation about a woman who wrote into an advice column to bemoan her husband’s relationship with old friend from high school, whom she’s labeled a “manic pixie dream girl.” How would this be a movie? Teresa has a pitch.SHOWNOTES: 

• Scriptnotes Episode #697: We Wrote a Book!
• Girlboss‘ Sophia Is Not a ‘Manic Pixie’ Anything, Because You Can’t Be One of Those TO YOURSELF by Teresa Jusino (April 27, 2017 at The Mary Sue)
• Help! My Husband’s Manic Pixie Past Has Become a Full-Blown Threat to My Sanity Advice by by Jenée Desmond-Harris and Nadira Goffe (July 10, 2025 at Slate)
• “I’m not a concept…” scene from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (YouTube)

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Connect with Pomonok Entertainment on social media: Bluesky / ⁠TikTok / Tumblr / Instagram / Threads / YouTubeSupport Scriptnotes NOTES by dropping what you can into the Pomonok Tip Jar!CREDITS:

Host/Executive Producer: Teresa Jusino
Bluesky/ ⁠TikTok⁠ / Tumblr / Instagram / Threads / YouTube

Produced by: ⁠Pomonok Podcasts⁠ 

Edited by: Teresa Jusino

Logo design by: Teresa Jusino

Scriptnotes NOTES: Because even the best creators need notes.

NEXT Scriptnotes NOTES: Ep 2: Friends, Property, and Other Romantic DesignationsRelease date: Wednesday, January 14