Five cardinal sins of television
One should be
ending the pilot with a murder.
That is a cardinal sin because the audience knows
the murder will not be resolved until at least the finale
Another cardinal sin is no voiceover.
That's a cardinal sin.
And yet, Mr Robot used voice over to incredible effect.
It's true.
There's a powerful group of people
out there that are secretly running the world.
Another cardinal sin
Characters standing in the rain
looking up at the heavens
With the kind of 'why hast thou forsaken me' expression
Sometimes they will literally scream 'No!'
But characters getting rained on.
And that's sort of attached to cardinal sin #4
which is umbrellas at funerals.
Mmm, yes. Black ones.
Exactly.
I think that was in the Guns n Roses video too.
Oh sure. And that was not a cardinal sin. But I think everything that happened after.
And there is what I'll call the Gotham exception
Anything relating to Batman or taking place in Gotham city, you're grandfathered in
You're allowed to have rainy cemeteries.
The other cardinal sin is titles
that tell you where and when you are.
London - 1873
It's like, oh wow, Big Ben and all the orphans
walking down the streets didn't give it away.
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