Lessons from the Screenplay - All Episodes

Season 2 / Year 2016

Episode	Name	Airdate
2016-06-08	Gone Girl — Don't Underestimate the Screenwriter	Jun 8, 2016
2016-06-21	Independence Day — What Makes It So Great	Jun 21, 2016
2016-07-05	How Ghostbusters Became Ghostbusters	Jul 5, 2016
2016-07-26	American Beauty (Part 1) — The Art of Character	Jul 26, 2016
2016-08-02	American Beauty (Part 2) — The Missing 27 Pages	Aug 2, 2016
2016-08-23	The Dark Knight — Creating the Ultimate Antagonist	Aug 23, 2016
2016-09-13	Nightcrawler — Empathy for the Antihero	Sep 13, 2016
2016-10-04	Moonrise Kingdom — Where Story Meets Style	Oct 4, 2016
2016-10-25	The Shining — Quietly Going Insane Together	Oct 25, 2016
2016-11-22	Whiplash vs. Black Swan — The Anatomy of the Obsessed Artist	Nov 22, 2016
2016-12-20	Ex Machina — The Control of Information	Dec 20, 2016

Season 3 / Year 2017

Episode	Name	Airdate
2017-01-31	The Social Network — Sorkin, Structure, and Collaboration	Jan 31, 2017
2017-02-14	When Harry Met Sally — Breaking Genre Conventions	Feb 14, 2017
2017-03-14	Inglourious Basterds — The Elements of Suspense	Mar 14, 2017
2017-04-04	Breaking Bad — Crafting a TV Pilot	Apr 4, 2017
2017-04-30	Rogue One vs. The Force Awakens — The Fault in Our Star Wars	Apr 30, 2017
2017-05-24	Arrival — Examining an Adaptation	May 24, 2017
2017-06-15	True Detective vs. Se7en — Creating Light Amongst the Dark	Jun 15, 2017
2017-06-29	Telling a Story from the Inside Out	Jun 29, 2017
2017-07-14	Game of Thrones — How to Evoke Emotion	Jul 14, 2017
2017-08-22	Memento — Telling a Story in Reverse	Aug 22, 2017
2017-09-26	Blade Runner — Constructing a Future Noir	Sep 26, 2017
2017-10-12	Logan vs. Children of Men — The End is in the Beginning	Oct 12, 2017
2017-11-21	Hidden Figures — The Power of Subplots	Nov 21, 2017

Season 4 / Year 2018

Episode	Name	Airdate
2018-01-26	The Avengers — Defining an Act	Jan 26, 2018
2018-01-30	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Breaking Convention	Jan 30, 2018
2018-02-27	Get Out — A New Perspective in Horror	Feb 27, 2018
2018-03-28	Black Mirror — Now Entering the Twilight Zone	Mar 28, 2018
2018-04-27	Collateral — The Midpoint Collision	Apr 27, 2018
2018-05-31	The Last Jedi — Forcing Change	May 31, 2018
2018-06-29	Jurassic Park — Using Theme to Craft Character	Jun 29, 2018
2018-07-24	Black Panther — Creating an Empathetic Villain	Jul 24, 2018
2018-07-31	Mission: Impossible — Executing the Perfect Heist	Jul 31, 2018
2018-08-24	No Country for Old Men — Don't Underestimate the Audience	Aug 24, 2018
2018-08-31	A Quiet Place — How to Write Sound into a Screenplay	Aug 31, 2018
2018-10-31	Shaun of the Dead — Why Comedy Needs Character	Oct 31, 2018
2018-11-24	The Devil Wears Prada — The First 10 Pages	Nov 24, 2018
2018-11-30	Good Will Hunting — The Psychology of Character	Nov 30, 2018
2018-12-30	Annihilation — The Art of Self-Destruction	Dec 30, 2018

Season 5 / Year 2019

Episode	Name	Airdate
2019-02-02	Groundhog Day — An Inescapable Premise	Feb 2, 2019
2019-02-08	Searching — Reformatting a Thriller	Feb 8, 2019
2019-02-28	The Silence of the Lambs — Dissecting a Scene	Feb 28, 2019
2019-04-01	Adaptation.	Apr 1, 2019
2019-04-22	One Marvelous Scene — Spider-Man: Homecoming	Apr 22, 2019
2019-05-31	Minority Report — When the Story World Becomes the Villain	May 31, 2019
2019-07-19	The Hidden Structure of Before Sunset	Jul 19, 2019
2019-07-31	The Matrix — Exposition in Action	Jul 31, 2019
2019-10-08	Aliens vs. Terminator 2 — How to Sequel like James Cameron	Oct 8, 2019
2019-12-04	The Last of Us (feat. Writer & Creative Director Neil Druckmann) \| @Story Mode	Dec 4, 2019

Season 6 / Year 2020

Episode	Name	Airdate
2020-02-27	Casino Royale — How Action Reveals Character	Feb 27, 2020
2020-03-26	Parasite — The Power of Symbols	Mar 26, 2020
2020-04-30	Parasite vs. Sunset Boulevard — The Disillusionment Arc	Apr 30, 2020
2020-05-29	Iron Man vs. Captain America — The 11-Year Character Arc	May 29, 2020
2020-06-19	Jaws — Assembling a Top-Tier Team (feat. @TierZoo)	Jun 19, 2020
2020-06-26	Mad Men — Layers of Meaning	Jun 26, 2020
2020-07-23	One X-Cellent Scene — Attack on Division X	Jul 23, 2020
2020-07-31	How The Outer Worlds Builds Companion Relationships	Jul 31, 2020
2020-08-13	The Rules (Guidelines) of Adventure — The Pirates of the Caribbean	Aug 13, 2020
2020-08-31	Christopher Nolan vs. Interstellar — The Nolan Crosscut	Aug 31, 2020
2020-09-29	How Stranger Things Conveys Tone and Style	Sep 29, 2020
2020-10-22	How Coraline Borrows from Ancient Forms of Storytelling	Oct 22, 2020
2020-11-17	I started a second channel! Check out @Story Mode	Nov 17, 2020
2020-11-27	A Few Good Men — Writing a Final Battle	Nov 27, 2020
2020-12-18	How A Christmas Carol Perfectly Demonstrates Five-Act Structure	Dec 18, 2020

Season 7 / Year 2021

Episode	Name	Airdate
2021-02-11	The Soul of Good Character Design	Feb 11, 2021
2021-05-27	How Good Filmmaking Brings a Script to Life	May 27, 2021
2021-06-10	Why Mass Effect Should Be the Next Game of Thrones	Jun 10, 2021
2021-11-05	What's new on my other channels	Nov 5, 2021

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