Fleishman Is in Trouble

by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Its soundtrack became the soundtrack for the political roiling and feminist uprising around them.

CAST RECORDING JTC

I remembered a creative writing class I took in college, where the professor, a cynical screenwriter who’d written exactly one movie that got made, told us that when our characters weren’t likable, you could fix it by giving them a clubfoot or a dog. I gave one of the gang members a clubfoot, and my agent wrote in the margin: “WTF?”

Yup.