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Case studies of television series writing (剧集案例库) from primary texts; Sorkin's six West Wing teleplays (act-page tables, eight act-out types); Chase's five Sopranos scripts (the 35-beat A/B/C/D recipe, what a pilot refuses to explain); Fellowes's annotated Downton Abbey season two (19 storylines, 419 footnotes); Waller-Bridge's Fleabag Scriptures (the six-episode half-hour template); Calvisi's eight minute-by-minute pilot beat sheets (Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones and more); Landau's 47-series structure appendix; Miller's Hannibal and HTGAWM breakdowns; Goldberg & Rabkin's beat sheets; Sakamoto Yuji's We Made a Beautiful Bouquet (a feature) and Noh Hee-kyung's The Most Beautiful Goodbye. Use when you want a worked example of how an episode or pilot is built, need real act lengths, scene counts or storyline grids to imitate, are breaking a multi-thread ensemble episode, designing a bottle episode or a finale, writing a relationship or family drama, or ask 某一集是怎么写的 / 这部剧的结构表.

When to use

• worked example of how an episode or pilot is built
• real act lengths, scene counts or storyline grids to imitate
• breaking a multi-thread ensemble episode
• designing a bottle episode or a finale
• writing a relationship or family drama
• analyzing West Wing, Sopranos, Downton Abbey, or Fleabag structures
• reviewing pilot beat sheets for Breaking Bad, Mad Men, or Game of Thrones
• examining Asian series structures like We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

When not to use

• general screenwriting principles without specific case studies
• Succession series writing (listed as separate skill)
• reading the entire library from start to finish

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