Story Grid Showrunners

014 Introduction to The Umbrella Academy Season 1

Episode Summary

Learn more about what makes a story work and what doesn't by looking at the global story of The Umbrella Academy Season 1 TV Series. In this introduction, we talk about the expectations we have on the story that were set up by the trailer. Furthermore, we talk about how you can use the five commandments for any medium that shall hook your audience.

Episode Notes

Due to the high interest he had in our episode that included the 6 core questions for Season 1 and 2 of Killing Eve, we’ve decided to change our format for this podcast. 

The Podcast will now have two episodes a month

An intro to a new series that will introduce the series and talk about expectations from seeing the trailer and reading series descriptions. 

Then we’ll give our listeners 2 weeks to watch the series and the second monthly recording will cover the 6 core questions, what made the series good/ bad/ innovative and how the series could have been improved.  We focus on genre, global story and obligatory moments.

 All are TV series are gonna be action/thriller stories. So at the end of the year, we have analysed 12 TV series in that genre and will be able to compare them looking at innovations in genre conventions, obligatory moments and the global story's five commandments. So that you can learn how stories are broken down globally.

This season we, the Story Grid Showrunners, will dissect the hit Netflix television series The Umbrella Academy.