John and Craig welcome back Aline Brosh McKenna to talk about what she learned producing four seasons of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Aline shares the importance of trusting your gut, building school spirit, and empowering the voices around you.

We’ll also talk about Emma Thompson, agency-affiliated producers, and more.

Links:

• Emma Thompson’s open et-emma-thompson-john-lasseter-skydance-20190226-story.html">mn-emma-thompson-john-lasseter-skydance-20190226-story.html">letter to Skydance.
• Episode 175 Transcript
• A Very English Scandal
• Birdcage 2
• Instagram #jackwawa
• New Highland 2 videos and tutorials
• We’re hiring a coder! If you’re interested please send an email to assistant@johnaugust.com
• You can now order Arlo Finch in the Lake of the Moon
• Submit entries for The Scriptnotes Pitch Session here.
• T-shirts are available here! We’ve got new designs, including Colored Revisions, Karateka, and Highland2.
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• Aline Brosh McKennaon Twitter
• John on Instagram
• Find past episodes
• Scriptnotes Digital Seasons are also now available!
• Outro by Victor Krause (send us yours!)