Jason Schreier

really freaking good and maybe i'll talk about it down the road um so i want to talk about called like this kirk is shaking his head he's like you pulled a kirk hamilton and did two more things um my one more thing is a book called like this but funnier by holly canter and uh this book is about what it's like to be a writer in hollywood kind of in the tone of hack

On HBO, a show that we all enjoy.

And it's about this woman, this TV writer named Caroline Newman, who is kind of like in a career rut.

She's been going through development on these shows and development is this kind of torturous process where you're trying to get a show made and you're not actually getting paid for it and you're just...

waiting for executives to say yes to you and she's married to this therapist and she winds up like accidentally sort of accidentally some hint hint wink wink accidentally stumbling upon her husband's notes about this this client of his named the teacher who has some fantasies about murdering her students parents and

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.

Um, this book is incredible.

It's hilarious.

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.

Um,

There's this incredible sequence.

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.

Okay, here's some other ones.