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Featured Friday: Emmy Nominees

July 26, 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 look at the series nominated across all categories at the upcoming 76th Emmy Awards. (In some cases, we’re using the pilot, so you don’t worry about spoilers for later seasons.)

Our collection includes:

– **3 Body Problem – “Countdown”** by David Benioff & D. B. Weiss & Alexander Woo
– **Abbott Elementary – “Pilot”** by Quinta Brunson
– **All the Light We Cannot See – “Episode 1”** by Steven Knight
– **Baby Reindeer – “Episode 1”** by Richard Gadd
– **Curb Your Enthusiasm – “Funkhouser’s Crazy Sister”** by Larry David
– **Fargo – “The Tragedy of the Commons”** by Noah Hawley
– **Fellow Travelers – “You’re Wonderful”** by Ron Nyswaner
– **Girls5eva – “Pilot”** by Meredith Scardino
– **Griselda – “Paradise Lost”** by Doug Miro and Giovanna Sarquis & Ingrid Escajeda
– **Hacks – “There Is No Line”** by Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky
– **Lessons in Chemistry – “Introduction to Chemistry”** by Lee Eisenberg
– **Mr. & Mrs. Smith – “A Break-Up”** by Donald Glover & Francesca Sloane
– **Only Murders in the Building – “True Crime”** by Steve Martin & John Hoffman
– **Palm Royale – “Maxine Goes to Palm Beach”** by Abe Sylvia
– **Reservation Dogs – “Deer Lady”** by Sterlin Harjo
– **Ripley – “I – A Hard Man to Find”** by Steven Zaillian
– **Shōgun – “Anjin”** by Rachel Kondo & Justin Marks
– **The Bear – “Fishes”** by Christopher Storer & Joanna Calo
– **The Crown – “Sleep, Dearie Sleep”** by Peter Morgan
– **The Gentlemen – “Refined Aggression”** by Guy Ritchie & Matthew Read
– **The Morning Show – “In the Dark Night of the Soul It’s Always 3:30 in the Morning”** by Kerry Ehrin and Jay Carson
– **The Other Two – “Pilot”** by Chris Kelly & Sarah Schneider
– **The Righteous Gemstones – “Pilot”** by Danny McBride
– **True Detective: Night Country – “Part 6”** by Issa López
– **What We Do in the Shadows – “Pilot”** by Jemaine Clement

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: Childhood Escapism

July 19, 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 look at stories told through the lens of a child’s imagination, and how those fantastical fictions can help them overcome real-life adversity.

Our collection includes:

– **A Little Princess** by Richard LaGravenese
– **A Monster Calls** by Patrick Ness
– **Beasts of the Southern Wild** by Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
– **Coraline** by Henry Selick
– **Heavenly Creatures** by Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson
– **Pan’s Labyrinth** by Guillermo del Toro
– **The Secret Garden** by Caroline Thompson
– **The Wizard of Oz** by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf
– **Where the Wild Things Are** by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers

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: Frankenstein Fables

July 12, 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 look at how writers have adapted, remixed, distorted and exploded the story of Frankenstein’s Monster.

Our collection includes:

– Edward Scissorhands by Caroline Thompson
– Ex Machina by Alex Garland
– Frankenweenie by John August
– Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Steph Lady
– Poor Things by Tony McNamara
– Stranger Things – “Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers” by The Duffer Brothers
– The Fly by David Cronenberg and Charles Edward Pogue
– The Monster Squad by Shane Black and Fred Dekker
– The Rocky Horror Picture Show by Jim Sharman and Richard O’Brien
– Weird Science by John Hughes
– Young Frankenstein by Gene Wilder & Mel Brooks

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)!

And the nominees are…in Weekend Read

January 31, 2024 Apps, Awards, News, Weekend Read

This year’s Academy Award nominees for best original and best adapted screenplay are a terrific mix of genres and styles, with scripts by established names and newcomers alike.

Craig and I talked through a bunch of them on a [recent Scriptnotes](https://johnaugust.com/2024/back-in-the-fyc), but that’s no substitute for reading them yourself. Fortunately, studios have made most of these scripts available online.

To make it even easier, we’ve added a new *And the Nominees Are…* list to [Weekend Read](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355). Here you’ll find everything from *American Fiction* to *Zone of Interest*.

screenshot of Weekend Read, listing scripts with poster artwork

Completists will notice that two scripts are missing. The screenplay for *Past Lives* hasn’t been released, while [*Anatomy of a Fall*](https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Anatomy-Of-A-Fall-Read-The-Screenplay.pdf) has a fascinating non-traditional format that can’t be converted out of PDF.

[Weekend Read 2](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355) is free on the App Store.

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