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Featured Friday: Dysfunctional Families

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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 dysfunctional families are portrayed across genres, and how they use specificity to articulate the universal condition of having a weird relationship with your folks.

Our collection includes:

  • A Serious Man by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  • American Beauty by Alan Ball
  • Arrested Development – “Pilot” by Mitchell Hurwitz
  • August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
  • Bates Motel – “First You Dream, Then You Die” by Kerry Ehrin & Anthony Cipriano
  • Crazy Rich Asians by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim
  • Death at a Funeral by Dean Craig
  • Eve’s Bayou by Kasi Lemmons
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
  • Happiness by Todd Solondz
  • Hereditary by Ari Aster
  • Kajillionaire by Miranda July
  • Knives Out by Rian Johnson
  • Little Miss Sunshine by Michael Arndt
  • Ready or Not by Guy Busick & R. Christopher Murphy
  • Shameless – “Pilot” by Paul Abbott
  • Succession – “Conner’s Wedding” by Jesse Armstrong
  • The Bear – “Fishes” by Christopher Storer & Joanna Calo
  • The Descendants by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
  • The Ice Storm by James Schamus
  • The Kids Are All Right by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
  • The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) by Noah Baumbach
  • The Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
  • The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola

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

Featured Friday: Organized Crime

Weekend Read

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

This week, we look at the operatic conflicts and power struggles of organized crime stories, what makes their anti-heroes so compelling, and why as far back as we can remember we always wanted to be a gangster.

Our collection includes:

  • A Most Violent Year by J. C. Chandor
  • American Gangster by Steven Zaillian
  • Analyze This by Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan and Harold Ramis
  • Animal Kingdom by David Michôd
  • Black Mass by Mark Mallouk
  • Drive by Hossein Amini
  • Gangs of New York by Jay Cocks
  • Goodfellas by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese
  • Heat by Michael Mann
  • Narcos – “Descenso” by Chris Brancato
  • New Jack City by Barry Michael Cooper
  • Road to Perdition by David Self
  • Sons of Anarchy – “Pilot” by Kurt Sutter
  • The Departed by William Monahan
  • The Godfather by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola
  • The Godfather: Part II by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola
  • The Irishman by Steven Zaillian
  • The Sopranos – “Pilot” by David Chase
  • The Town by Peter Craig

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

Featured Friday: Period Television

Weekend Read

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!

Featured Friday: Curses

Weekend Read

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!