The Shawshank Redemption is a redemption plot. This is a genre of film that looks back over life events in flashback with a voice-over and, of course, ends with a redemption. This is similar to story structures often used in L&D –when something goes wrong,and a characterreflects on it in flashback. I bring out the tropes so we can credibly work in this genre.
Episode 5, The Queen’s Gambit
April 21, 2022
Episode 5 features The Queen’s Gambit. In which I reveal how this exemplary show articulates point-of-view. There’s a misguided tendency in L&D to equate literal point-of-view with the creation of empathy. Point-of-view in drama doesn’t work like that and here’s why.
