Showing posts with label television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label television. Show all posts
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Plotting Board

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman In this post, I offer a few tips on plotting, many of which are implied, if not directly stated in...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Fandom Wikis: Suspense through Cliffhanger

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Fandom wikis are only as good as the typically anonymous fans who compose the site's artic...
Friday, July 18, 2014

"Large. . . and Startling Figures," Indeed

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copyright 2014 by Gary L. Pullman Horror hides inside us all, actually or potentially, taking many forms. What horrifies us is our ...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

How "Buffy" Was Written

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Copyright 2012 by Gary L. Pullman In The Watcher’s Guide, Volume 2 , the television series’ writer Jane Espenson explains the procedure ...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Noxon's Buffy the Vampire Stinkers

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman There’s a lot right with Buffy the Vampire Slayer , but there’s a lot wrong with it, too, and crit...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Adolescent and Adult Themes

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In any television series, a few (sometimes, many) episodes will be dedicated to establishing and de...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Quality Television--It’s Back!

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Occasionally, television transcends itself and offers a series that is worth watching, even in the conglom...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Terror Television

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In Terror Television: American Series, 1970-1999 , John Kenneth Muir describes the premises upon which man...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Verizon’s Version of Horror: The Dead Zone Advertisements

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Advertisers are a creative bunch. They use all sorts of persons, places, and things to sell us everything ...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

"The Addams Family" Technique

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Cartoonist Charles Addams is the father of a truly bizarre family. “Dysfunctional” doesn’t begin to desc...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The Cliffhanger

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Copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Charles Dickens As we mentioned in a previous post, Charles Dickens invented the cliffhanger as a way to ...
Friday, March 21, 2008

Buffy: More than Pastiche

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a pastiche, as executive producer Marti Noxon freely admits in a comment on t...