John and Craig welcome back Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) to explore the timely questions about art and human labor posed by her long-awaited sequel, The Devil Wears Prada 2. We’ll warn you now: Spoilers ahead!
We also look at what AI knitting podcasts can tell us about the future of industrially-produced slop, and answer a listener question on how to approach the engine of a TV show.
In our bonus segment for premium members, what would a hypothetical Scriptnotes Screenplay Club look like? Aline weighs in to make sure the design is impeccable.
That’s all.
Links:
- The Devil Wears Prada 2
- Aline Brosh McKenna on Instagram and IMDb
- The Sheep Detectives
- Knitting Bullshit by Kate Davies
- Inception Point AI
- How many E’s are in Seventeen? on YouTube
- Inserting yourself into Game of Thrones on Instagram
- One Move God Mode vertical by NetShort
- New York Times Issues Stern Warning to Its Freelance Writers About AI Use by Maggie Harrison Dupré for Futurism
- Jared Freid on TikTok
- The Feed Is Fake by Lane Brown for New York Magazine
- Indigo Girls
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