WELCOME WELCOME! We’re going FULL feral back in time where it all began, the stompin’ grounds of Horace Green prep school AKA Phoebe’s teaching origin story. Today we yap MIKE WHITE BABY and what artists can learn from Survivor Season 37 runner up (and the writer of White Lotus).
“Part of my job and my way of life is studying people and analyzing motivation and character. I still feel like, even on the most contrived reality show, the people are human and they’re more interesting than some of the most well-scripted drama. And for me, as a writer of drama, I aspire to do what reality television already does. To create characters that are surprising and dimensional and do weird shit and capture your attention.”
The Universal Laws of Mike White
Our guys LOVES a rule, because restrictions BREED CREATIVITY BABY! And man’s got a LOT.
Say the quiet part out loud
Call it social equity, a chat about money/class/sex/death time etc, but our man is always playing with the tension of social systems. Or as
writes “weapons cultural taboos” and “dismantling the illusions of privilege one gradient arc at a time.”“I didn’t want people watching the show to be able to say, “That’s the bad guy! I’m the good guy.” I wanted them to see the rich people in the show and think, That’s me—I am that person. I’ve said those things. I’ve been defensive in that way.”
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