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Featured Friday: Period Television

September 13, 2024 Weekend Read

[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), 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](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!

Featured Friday: Curses

September 6, 2024 Weekend Read

[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), 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](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!

Featured Friday: First Features

August 23, 2024 Weekend Read

[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at those first screenplays that broke through, got made, and launched some of our favorite writers’ careers.

Our collection includes:

– **28 Days Later** by Alex Garland
– **A Few Good Men** by Aaron Sorkin
– **Badlands** by Terrence Malick
– **Blood Simple** by Joel and Ethan Coen
– **Bottle Rocket** by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
– **Cloverfield** by Drew Goddard
– **Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story** by Rawson Marshall Thurber
– **Eighth Grade** by Bo Burnham
– **Following** by Christopher Nolan
– **Fruitvale Station** by Ryan Coogler
– **Get Out** by Jordan Peele
– **Go** by John August
– **Gone Girl** by Gillian Flynn
– **Hereditary** by Ari Aster
– **Juno** by Diablo Cody
– **Kids** by Harmony Korine
– **Little Miss Sunshine** by Michael Arndt
– **Palm Springs** by Andy Siara
– **Pariah** by Dee Rees
– **Promising Young Woman** by Emerald Fennell
– **Reservoir Dogs** by Quentin Tarantino
– **Rocky** by Sylvester Stallone
– **Sense and Sensibility** by Emma Thompson
– **sex, lies and videotape** by Steven Soderbergh
– **Shaun of the Dead** by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright
– **Sicario** by Taylor Sheridan
– **Sorry to Bother You** by Boots Riley
– **Submarine** by Richard Ayoade
– **Swingers** by Jon Favreau
– **The Babadook** by Jennifer Kent
– **The Post** by Liz Hannah
– **The Virgin Suicides** by Sofia Coppola
– **The Wedding Date** by Dana Fox
– **The Witch** by Robert Eggers
– **Whiplash** by Damien Chazelle

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. [Download for free](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!

Featured Friday: Spies & Secret Agents

August 2, 2024 Apps, Weekend Read

[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we enter the clandestine world of spies and secret agents to see how their writers use action, tension and character to keep us on the edge of our seats.

Our collection includes:

– **Argo** by Chris Terrio
– **Bridge of Spies** by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
– **Burn After Reading** by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
– **Charlie’s Angels** by Ed Solomon & Ryan Rowe and John August
– **Hanna** by Seth Lochhead and David Farr
– **Killing Eve – “Nice Face”** by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
– **Kingsman: The Secret Service** by Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn
– **Mission: Impossible** by David Koepp and Robert Towne
– **Mission: Impossible – Fallout** by Christopher McQuarrie
– **Mr. & Mrs. Smith – “First Date”** by Donald Glover & Francesca Sloane
– **Skyfall** by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan
– **The Americans – “Pilot”** by Joe Weisberg
– **The Bourne Identity** by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron
– **The Debt** by Matthew Vaughn & Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan
– **The Night Manager – “Episode 1”** by David Farr
– **The Spy Who Dumped Me** by Susanna Fogel & David Iserson
– **Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy** by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan
– **True Lies** by James Cameron
– **Turn: Washington’s Spies – “Pilot”** by Craig Silverstein & Mitchell Akselrad

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. [Download for free](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!

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