REVIEW: THE ASSISTANT

THE ASSISTANT: If you want to know what it is to be an assistant in the entertainment industry, watch this film. Script analysis. Now streaming on Hulu.

Great subject matter. 
Terribly boring. 

Purposefully focused on the minutiae. 
Nothing to track.

Purposefully ambiguous. 
Nothing to root for. 

Interesting? Sure.
Empathetic acting? Absolutely. 
Nuanced directing choices? Yep.
Yet, it wasn't long before I started to scroll through my phone with this film on in the background.

Have you seen it? What say you?

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AUTHOR

Shannan E. Johnson is a former creative executive at The Syfy Channel turned CEO + Head Consultant of The Professional Pen, a script consultancy that develops screenwriters from idea to pitch to become more confident storytellers ready for a professional screenwriting career, and consults with scripted development teams at entertainment companies to streamline their notes process to get to pre-production more efficiently.