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Colin and Elijah continue the conversation with Spencer Jamison as she explains some of the origins and impact of West Wing's famous walk and talk, they share some of the coldest lines in EP One history, and fan out over Aaron Sorkin's mastery of dialogue.

If you want to read the script for West Wing hit the link below

https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/West_Wing_Pilot.pdf

Episode One is a Hermit House Production

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Colin and Elijah cover this 2004 classic, Deadwood. Apart from revitalizing the western genre for television this show launched the careers of many of your favorite prestige TV actors. Colin and Elijah breakdown the pikot episode of the epic as only they can.

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We reached a milestone. We are on Episode 20 and we are doing things a bit differently. Since we had a wealth of new listeners (thank you to everyone who has joined us since we launched over 6 months ago) we felt the need to reintroduce ourselves and define some of the terms and concepts that we use. We also debate a little bit about the protagonist of FX's Shogun and share a bit of our writing. Timestamp for the terms we talk about below. Make sure to give us a rating and subscribe so you can catch every episode.

3:13 - ABC Stories

9:57 - Outline

13:50 - Story Engine

24:08 - Colin's Cliffhanger Theory

31:30 - World Building

37:00 - Loglines

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Elijah and Colin cover the subculture workplace hour long drama, P Valley, a show about the greatest strip club of all time. This show was release in the height of the pandemic and is charging forward towards its 3rd season. Listen in as Eilijah gushes over the dialogue and Colin makes the case for this show being kinda ground breaking.

Correction: In one line Elijah attributes a piece of dialogue to Uncle Clifford when it was the character Diamond for all you super-listeners looking to see if we caught that.

Thanks again for listening!

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Colin’s first anime he watched on purpose (the others he didn’t know were anime.) We break down the 90s animation masterpiece Cowboy Bebop. Did Elijah Convert Colin into an Otaku? He might have gotten pretty damn close. We get into its mastery of visual storytelling, and its subtle world-building, and get into a bit of a debate about whether the “dramady” is just a made-up thing. We also reflect on the mash-up of genres that Cowboy BeBop prefect and many shows tried to copy.

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Just when you thought we were done, Star Trek pulled us back in! Two Trekies couldn't miss the opportunity to break down the pilot of the excellent Star Trek Discovery. We geek out a little on this one, but how could you not when Discovery serves as both a prequel, a reboot, and a departure for the series? In a risky pivot, Discovery is a character study, centering on our first Black woman protagonist. Did the pilot nail the relaunched? Well based on the fact that Paramount + is the home for an entire universe of Star Trek content, we can safely say yes.

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