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Big Moody Mountain

By Tia Creighton

A comedy that follows heavy-equipment mechanic Mike Deiter as he works in the award-winning but loony landfill (or “dump”) called Big Moody Mountain.

Introduction

Big Moody Mountain (“BMM”) is arguably the most pristine dump in the country, which of course seems incongruous. It’s a dump. It’s filled with human discard and household waste. Doesn’t it stink? Isn’t it gross? On the contrary.

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Mark of the Healer

By Sam Holloway

An interview with the creator of Netflix’s surprise hit

Unless you were a fan of the United Kingdom’s Department for Transport public safety and personnel training videos, until recently you were probably not familiar with the work of C. C. Cheltenham. By now you may be familiar, however, with the controversy and buzz surrounding their new Netflix movie Mark of the Healer. The movie, which debuted on the subscription streaming service January 19, quickly became the subject of wildly varying reviews; a rapidly growing global cult following; and even a series of protest campaigns in the U.S., Canada, and the UK.

[Author’s note: the following will be heavily laden with spoilers!]

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Advice from the World’s Second Greatest Netflix Pitcher

By Jonathan

Lots of people ask me how I manage to produce so many pitches. These days everyone wants to be in the business, and they’ve seen on my blog that I’ve averaged 7.46 pitches per day over the last three-plus years. I don’t want to sound self-aggrandizing, but I think some people are awed by that number. They think I must have some secret, but the truth is the only advice I can give is the classic advice for all writers: pitch what you know. When you look at it right, your own life has endless wells of inspiration.

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Herringbone! Herringbone!

By The Editors

This weekly drama will consist of a 70-something, white male born and raised on the Eastern seaboard of the United States staring at one of his favorite herringbone blazers, suspended by a hanger.

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Apocalypse Storytime

By The Editors

Expository sh*t about what’s happening in America.

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So Far, We Regret Having You

By Tia Creighton

A weekly show wherein the same famous couple — think, perhaps, Nicole Kidman/Keith Urban or Ellen DeGeneres/Portia de Rossi or Julia Louis-Dreyfus/Brad Hall — invites six total strangers in off the street for an eight-person dinner party.

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Top of the Heap

By Tia Creighton

An O.G. pickuh competes with white, rip-off, junk men to see who can profit most off people’s trash. It’s American Pickers meets Sanford and Son. 

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