[Thai Loe]

SHOW: WEDNESDAY (on Netflix)

BIG PICTURE HOOKS: Ask this: What is the big hook of this show?

An outcast seer/goth girl becomes the outcast in a school of supernatural outcasts.

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INTRIGUING CHARACTER: Ask this: What makes these main characters intriguing and interesting?

WEDNESDAY ADDAMS (main character) She’s incredibly smart, multi-talented, has her own vibe, and is dangerous. She protects her brother from others, is unafraid of confrontation, and believes emotions are weakness. She is intrigued by mysteries. She is oblivious to her family’s love for her. Melodramatic.

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PUBGLSY ADDAMS (brother): Easily intimidated. non-confrontational.

MORTICIA ADDAMS (mother): Mysterious, passionate, secretive, odd.

THING (Wednesday’s right “hand” – ha): Super helpful family member with only one limb. Devoted to his family, including Wednesday, despite undeserved misfortune.

XAVIER (friend): Saves Wednesday’s life and has a history of appreciating her for doing the same for him in the past.

TYLER (friend): Not afraid of Wednesday, honest, helps others, including Wednesday.

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ENID SINCLAIR (roommate): A happy-go-lucky werewolf who loves standing out but cannot wolf-out.

PRINCIPAL LARISA WEEMS (headmaster): Seems to be under-skilled for the school but balances her image with the underworld and the regular world. Constantly watching Wednesday, seems to have a hidden agenda with Morticia.

BIANCA (classmate): Skilled, not afraid of a fight, wounds Wednesday in battle.

ROWAN (classmate, enemy): Attempts to murder Wednesday because of an omen his mother warned him about.

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EMPATHY / DISTRESS What situation will cause us to feel both empathy and distress for this character?

SITUATION

Wednesday Addams is shipped to boarding school, Nevermoor, against her will, for attempted murder. It’s full of kids with unique supernatural skills. She feels betrayed and abandoned by her family. She feels like an outcast in the world as a whole. This is relatable to most people, although in Wednesday’s case, it’s extreme.

EMPATHY

Feeling abandoned. People want her dead for acts she has not committed. But the monster does not try to kill her.

DISTRESS

She doesn’t even fit in the school for misfits. People are trying to murder her for something she might do, and is in the future.

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LAYERS / OPEN LOOPS Ask this: What questions are created by this first episode that can only be answered by watching the entire season?

Questions:

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Is Gomez a murder?

What
is the monster, and why is it killing?

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What
do the other seer’s visions mean? Is Wednesday involved? Is she to
blame? Is she in fact, trying to stop it?

Will
she solve the mysteries? Will she survive?

Will
she rekindle her relationship with her mother? Will she realize her
family loves her?

Will
she find a way to fit in despite being odd?
Why
is the principal following her so much?

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INVITING OBSESSION Ask this: How does this pilot create the need to see every single episode?

You must get to the season’s end to answer most of these questions. Some might be answered along the way, but it’s clear it will take a full season to unravel some of the mysteries, especially because so many were brought up.

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WHAT I LEARNED.

The dance of whirling audiences around through spectacle (for intrigue) and empathy (for connection).

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[Thai Loe]

Hello TV Writers!!!

1. I am Thai Loe

2. I’ve written 4 features, 2 TV pilots, and 8 episodes of an audio drama.

3. Hope for Class: Kick my TV writing into higher gear.

4. About Me: I was obsessed with computers as a child in the 70s… I used to code computer games on a TI994A home computer for my friends to play. It’s so exciting to be alive in this world to watch the growth of computers over the last 50 years.

5. Prior courses include: ProSeries 59 & Binge-Worthy TV 2017

So excited to be in this group!

[Thai Loe]

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1. That I will keep the processes, strategies, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class confidential, and that I will NOT share any of this program either privately, with a group, posting online, writing articles, through video or computer programming, or in any other way that would make those processes, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class available to anyone who is not a member of this class.

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I will keep the other writer’s ideas and writing confidential and will not share this information with anyone without the express written permission of the writer/owner. I will not market or even discuss this information with anyone outside this group.

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