Curated category
Postmodern television
- The SimpsonsMatt Groening sat in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office on a day in 1987, sketching a dysfunctional family that would become The Simpsons.
- Stranger ThingsIn early 2015, Dan Cohen brought a script to his colleague Shawn Levy at 21 Laps Entertainment. The Duffer Brothers had prepared a pitch book and a pilot…
- Twin PeaksIn 1988, Mark Frost and David Lynch met at Nibblers restaurant in Los Angeles to discuss a television project. Tony Krantz, their agent, suggested they…
- Saturday Night LiveOn the 11th of October 1975, a young comedy troupe took the stage in Studio 8H for the first time. The show was called NBC's Saturday Night and hosted by…
- Breaking BadVince Gilligan stood in a writers room during the 2007, 2008 Writers Guild of America strike and realized his show needed to change.
- Neon Genesis EvangelionIn 2015, fifteen years after a global cataclysm known as the Second Impact, teenager Shinji Ikari is summoned to the futuristic city of Tokyo-3 by his…
- South ParkTrey Parker and Matt Stone met in a film class at the University of Colorado in 1992. They discovered a shared love for Monty Python, which became one of…
- Rick and MortyRick Sanchez of Earth Dimension C-137 lives in a suburban house outside Seattle, Washington. He is an eccentric and alcoholic mad scientist who rejects…