How to Make a Successful TV Drama

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
1 min readMar 4, 2014

Mix and match least 10?

- Scars

- Dead or dying animals

- Dead or dying people

- Tattoos

- Twisted sex, especially incest

- Teenage girls and/or women with ASTOUNDINGLY fantastic hair

- Rituals with masks

- Plaid

- Teenage girls and/or women with ASTOUNDINGLY fantastic skin

- Vast quantities of alcohol

- Men with amazing forearms

- Taxidermy

- Unusual teeth

- Children’s drawings

- Drawings that look like they could be children’s drawings but aren’t

- Bugs

- Amazing breasts

- Nobody ever smiling or laughing

- Forests

- Prostitution

- People or things being underwater

- Hot guys with secrets

- Women with scratchy voices

Edith Zimmerman watches The Fall, True Detective, The Returned, Top of the Lake, Black Mirror, and Twin Peaks from inside a bug crawling on a scar near the old campground.

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com