John August

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at TV series set long ago and the many ways writers can use period settings to elevate their storytelling.

Our collection includes:

• Bridgerton – “Diamond of the First Water”
• Chernobyl – “1:23:45”
• Deadwood – “Pilot”
• Dickinson – “Because I could not stop”
• Downton Abbey – Season 6, Episode 8
• Gentleman Jack – “Episode 1”
• GLOW – “Pilot”
• Halt and Catch Fire – “Pilot”
• Mad Men – “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”
• Peaky Blinders – “Episode 1”
• PEN15 – “Vendy Wiccany”
• Penny Dreadful – “Pilot”
• Perry Mason – “Chapter Three”
• Pose – “A House Is Not A Home”
• Shōgun – “Anjin”
• Snowfall – “Pilot”
• Taboo – “Episode 1”
• The Crown – “Assassins”
• The Great – “Alone At Last”
• The Knick – “Pilot”
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – “Pilot”
• The Terror – “Go for Broke”
• The Underground Railroad – “Chapter 10: Mabel”

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at how curses can be used as supernatural retribution, force characters to confront the worst parts of themselves, and how breaking them can drive the cursed to grow and change.

Our collection includes:

• Beauty and the Beast by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos
• Drag Me to Hell by Ivan Raimi & Sam Raimi
• It Follows by David Robert Mitchell
• Liar Liar by Tom Shadyac and Mike Binder
• Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
• The Curse – “Episode 1” by Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie
• The Grudge by Stephen Susco
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer by Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!