Jason Schreier
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And Caroline, our protagonist, decides to just pitch that as a character in a TV show and through a hilarious comedy of errors that winds up escalating and becoming the thing that she sells to the executives and they wind up loving it.
We see this show continue to make traction.
And, of course, she cannot tell her husband anything about it because she stole his notes.
Then she, because this is a book about a woman who just makes terrible decisions and sabotages her life, then she decides...
that has researched, she will finagle a way to meet this client, the teacher and befriend her, which as you might imagine, leads to some, some issues.
It's very entertaining and it's a perfect, just pitch perfect send up of Hollywood and has so many rings of truth to it in just kind of like this capturing of what it's actually like to work in the world of TV and TV writing.
There's a decent amount of epistolary stuff in here.
And there's this incredible sequence of emails towards the end of the book where everybody is exchanging emails about all these different things.
And I won't get into the specifics, but there's one part where all these assistants are just listing dates for putting together drinks.
And they're all just going back and forth over and over again about, oh, we can't do this one, can't do this one.
And it's just written in this pitch perfect tone that is so very Hollywood.
And it winds up being four months before they can actually get a date that works for anyone.
It's just like, here are some options.
3.14 at 2 p.m., 3.16 at 5 p.m., 3.17 at 2 p.m., but so-and-so has to duck out early.