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Posted on 14 November 202021 December 2020

Goliath Season 4: What You Need to Know

One year ago, Amazon announced that its legal drama Goliath starring Billy Bob Thornton as underdog lawyer Billy McBride had been renewed for one final season, then coronavirus arrived — so when will Season 4 be with us? We do know that production has restarted. Rumour has it that Season 4 will be released in …

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Posted on 30 May 202024 November 2020

Bosch Asks: What’s a Medical Physicist?

Bosch Season 6: Looking pensive as helicopters patrol the sky overhead, Bosch asks: "What's a Medical Physicist?"

Having watched all five seasons of the Amazon police drama Bosch, I was excited to find Season 6 arrive during the lockdown imposed on us due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ten minutes into the first episode and Bosch is called out to the Overlook at Lake Hollywood Park on a murder case. An abandoned 911 …

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Posted on 18 October 201918 December 2020

Goliath Season 3: The Weird and the Wonderful

Goliath Season 3: The weird and the wonderful. Billy McBride with his wriggly pen.

Amazon TV's Goliath is back for a third instalment and after the two previous diverse offerings, no-one knew what to expect in Season 3. When Billy McBride in Season 1 said, “Ever since I took this case, weird shit is happening to me…”, well, that kind of weird has nothing on this. Get ready to …

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Posted on 4 July 201915 January 2021

A Scriptwriter’s Toolbox

Volts & Volatility by Erika Messan

Knowing what sells is essential if you want to write a successful script, so a key part of a scriptwriter's toolbox is to read as many scripts as possible written by others. It also becomes less disheartening when you see that some of the most successful films and TV shows contained ideas in early drafts …

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Posted on 31 May 20197 December 2020

Goliath Season 2: Cover My Eyes

Goliath Season 2 - Gabriel Ortega.

It has been a while since Amazon's eagerly anticipated Goliath Season 2 was released. Those who watched the drama unfold might think it has taken so long for me to write a commentary because I needed to get over the shock of what we saw. I admit it, I did have to cover my eyes …

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Posted on 19 May 201927 December 2020

Goliath Season 1: Rewriting Characters

Rewriting characters and the first season of Goliath

In the second of a series of posts about rewriting characters, this article looks at Season 1 of Goliath, the Amazon legal drama starring Billy Bob Thornton as underdog lawyer, Billy McBride, who is pitted against the powerful. The discussion compares the third draft pilot script for Goliath Season 1 entitled Trial dated 20 July …

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Posted on 16 May 201924 November 2020

Rewriting characters: The Big Bang Theory

Penny meets Sheldon and Leonard in Rewriting Characters: The Big Bang Theory.

As part of my fledgling scriptwriting aspirations, I was interested to understand how a hugely successful TV show knows right from the start what people will watch whilst making content unique. This led me to start reading drafts and pilot episode scripts of TV shows. I soon realised that those making these shows often don't …

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    Goliath Season 1: Rewriting Characters
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VISSINITI is the website of Margaret Murphy, an aspiring scriptwriter based in London who has an obsessive interest in anything masquerading as an asteroid or comet. She has spent countless hours watching, rewatching and writing about asteroid and comet disaster movies, but also posts rambling reviews of random TV dramas. She aspires to finishing a script and having an asteroid named after her—no matter how insignificantly small and lumpy. She is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Geological Society of London..