PROS
- No coffee and donuts necessary.
- No break room necessary.
- No writer’s room story and character development arguments.
- No writer’s room.
- Will not quit due to creative differences.
- Will not hit or hit on other writers and/or actors.
- Never calls in sick.
- No “Sorry, the dog ate my first draft”.
- Will not object to any studio or network script notes no matter how fucking stupid they are.
- Will not join a union, ergo no strikes.
CONS
- Every tv script sounds like a Gilligan’s Island episode.
- In “Godfather 4”, Don Corleone’s great grandson is a cyborg.
- The new “Star Wars” movie has C-3PO’s name above the title.
- In the “Succession” spinoff the ghost of Logan Roy teams up with Don Draper and Tony Soprano.
- The main character in all of CBS’s new shows are data processors who double as detectives.
- Can’t distinguish tears of sadness from tears of joy and doesn’t really give a shit.
- No one ever falls in love.
- Can’t seem to get a handle on irony.
- The second draft is exactly the same as the first.
- If a satellite gets hit by space junk, game over.