Monday, February 27, 2006

Jane Espenson is an awesome writer who has worked on shows like Buffy, Angel, Gilmore Girls ... oh, wait a second. There are no shows "like" Buffy, Angel or Gilmore Girls. Which is to say that she has had the sort of writing career that I would still envy if the shows I currently have in development all got greenlit at the same time. And she is a fun and witty person. As you can tell from her blog.

Anyway, Jane just answered a nagging question I've had about act breaks in Gilmore Girls.

You know how DMc and Rogers and other TV bloggers have gone on about act outs? The last moment before a commercial must be a big "wow" moment, preferably one of great jeopardy?

Gilmore Girls don't do act outs. Jane esplains why.

Thank, you, Jane!

5:40 PM

2 Comments:

That's very interesting. And that might have something to do with why I never liked Gilmore Girls.

It always seemed poky-poky-clever-poky in a way that I didn't appreciate. I had room for one talky talky show in my viewing quiver at that point, and I chose West Wing.

By  DMc, at 6:10 PM  

Anyone else notice that they dropped Jane's name on "24" last night?

By  punkmonk, at 3:02 PM  

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