For all the attention paid to acting races, the writing categories are equally competitive — if not more so. Among the contenders, there are two shows, one in drama and the other in the comedy ...

Oh, sure, Dan Levy gets excited. Really, he does! The sparkle may not be written on his face – cherubic, distinguished, writerly; one with features much like his actor-dad, Eugene Levy – but inside ...

Solo Leveling gets criticized for being nothing but aura-farming and power fantasy, but the best episodes highlight Jinwoo's ...

Notoriously reclusive "Simpsons" writer John Swartzwelder revealed how the show got around the censors in its early days in an extremely rare interview. Despite his secretive nature, Swartzwelder is a ...

On a special episode of Back To One, I’m sharing a segment from a recent episode of the popular screenwriting podcast Scriptnotes called “Writing As Acting.” In it, screenwriters John August and Craig ...

We have a long-standing thread pondering which post tape system nominated performances may have triumphed if the system from before 2015 was still implemented today but I’ve always wondered, how ...

The critical instant within an Emmy nominated episode — what we here at The Envelope like to call its “key scene” — is often best-defined by the writer (or writers) who crafted it. But in this unusual ...

Game of Thrones often had seasons that peaked with their second-last episodes, as seen with "The Rains of Castamere" and "The ...

The Comedy Central series has a long history of Christmas episodes, which have introduced some instant classic characters. In ...

A thousand episodes is an impressive milestone for any series, and One Piece celebrated its big moment in style. Not only did the anime receive a virtual celebration from Funimation and Toei Animation ...