John and Craig evaluate another set of exceptional news stories for their fitness for the big screen in this week’s How Would This Be a Movie?

We consider stories about counterfeit debt collectors, the worst roommate ever (beside’s Craig college roommate), the girl who posed as a grown man online and began exhibiting genuine symptoms of toxic masculinity, a family that fights to preserve their daughter after she’s been declared brain dead, and a cruise ship that descends into anarchy.

We also follow up on the mystery of MoviePass with a listener that has seen a new film each day for months. Did we judge this model too quickly?

Links:

* Applications are being accepted for the Sundance Episodic Lab * Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back, With a Vengeance by Zeke Faux for Bloomberg * bachman-worst-roommate-ever.html"> Worst Roommate Ever by William Brennan for New York Magazine * What Does It Mean to Die? by Rachel Aviv for the New Yorker. John also mentioned actor-accidentally-shot-dead.html"> this story about Jon-Erik Hexum by Gareth Davies for the Daily Mail. * Teen Girl Posed For 8 Years As Married Man To Write About Baseball And Harass Women by Lindsey Adler for Deadspin * A Carnival cruise in the South Pacific descended into violent anarchy by Avi Selk for The Washington Post * Bridge Constructor Portal * A Very Fatal Murder * The Good Place on NBC. * The Scriptnotes Listeners’ Guide! * The USB drives! * John August on Twitter * Craig Mazin on Twitter * John on Instagram * Find past episodes * Outro by Rajesh Naroth (send us yours!)

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