Feb 27, 2018
John and Craig evaluate another set of exceptional news stories for their fitness for the big screen in this week’s How Would This Be a Movie?
We consider stories about counterfeit debt collectors, the worst roommate ever (beside’s Craig college roommate), the girl who posed as a grown man online and began exhibiting genuine symptoms of toxic masculinity, a family that fights to preserve their daughter after she’s been declared brain dead, and a cruise ship that descends into anarchy.
We also follow up on the mystery of MoviePass with a listener that has seen a new film each day for months. Did we judge this model too quickly?
Links:
* Applications are being accepted for the Sundance
Episodic Lab
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Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought
Back, With a Vengeance by Zeke Faux for Bloomberg
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Worst Roommate Ever by William Brennan for New York
Magazine
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What Does It Mean to Die? by Rachel Aviv for the New Yorker.
John also mentioned
this story about Jon-Erik Hexum by Gareth Davies for the Daily
Mail.
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Teen Girl Posed For 8 Years As Married Man To Write About Baseball
And Harass Women by Lindsey Adler for Deadspin
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A Carnival cruise in the South Pacific descended into violent
anarchy by Avi Selk for The Washington Post
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Bridge Constructor Portal
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A Very Fatal Murder
* The Good
Place on NBC.
* The Scriptnotes Listeners’
Guide!
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The USB drives!
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* Find past episodes
* Outro by
Rajesh Naroth (send us yours!)
Email us at ask@johnaugust.com
You can download the episode here.