Sister, Sister made it seem like suddenly discovering you have a twin sister is both the most wonderful thing in the world on one hand, and quite grateful you’re an only child, on the other. The ‘90s sitcom starred real-life twins Tamera Mowry-Housle...

In the final installment of our character study series, we’ll dive into how to handle ensemble casts. But isn’t every cast an ensemble, in a way? In this case, it’s one defined as having multiple protagonists that contribute equally to the narrative ...

2020 deserves a happy ending, and Once Upon a Time was that kind of persistently positive show that believed happily ever afters were possible — even in the most horrible place imaginable: The Land Without Magic. Aka: real life.

The American dream at its best: enterprising drug lords go up against the Baltimore Police Department in the first season of HBO’s The Wire. Right out of the starting gate, the crime drama sets up the whole series through a seemingly random conversat...

In Character Study Part I, we talked about three kinds of character arcs: the change, the growth, and the fall. Seems simple enough; create a journey for your character to go on that ensures they follow one of those trajectories and you’ve got yourse...

The opening beats of ‘90s neon gem The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air serve up a healthy dose of nostalgia and smiles. Kids these days can still thankfully catch a pre-action hero Will Smith — who then in his twenties was the teen from the rough West Philly...

Happy (late) Thanksgiving, friends!

They say the silver screen adaptation is never as good as the book. In the case of Gossip Girl, “they” were wrong. And such is the case with gossip — the very foundation of the six-season CW drama — it’s not always entirely true but sure can garner a...

Something Wicca this way came in 1998 when the original Charmed hit The WB airwaves. Right out of the gate, the fantasy drama raked in 7.7 million viewers to be the fledgling network’s highest-rated debut at the time. Spelling Television had created ...