Inside the Writers Room at Johns Hopkins

Two people look at writing on a chalkboard
Two people look at writing on a chalkboard
Take a peek at the room where budding scriptwriters learn that creating your next binge-watch is a team sport. Two people look at writing on a chalkboard - Interior-ground floor of Gilman Hall-night We open on a chilly Monday evening in February. Down in the building's subterranean labyrinth, the droning sound of a soda machine motor drifts along shadowy, deserted halls lined with locked doors and dark offices. Cut to: Room 35 Something at turns strange, hilarious, and horrific is going on within this windowless room down a dead-end corridor. Seven undergraduates gather around a table. They're Abena Ababio (senior), Devin Andrada (sophomore), Anne Fleming (sophomore), Max Massiah (junior), Thomas Nishimoto (senior), Udochukwu Nwosu (junior), Sophia Pasalis (first-year)-as well as Adam Rodgers (director, Film and Media Studies). Wait, why is a man crawling along on all fours pretending to be a goat? A wall clock is malfunctioning; is it just a broken motor or does it indicate a glitch in the software that controls most of society? Meanwhile, who is this fast-talking guy dubbed the Banana Man? But then this all seems trivial now that the very gates of Hell have opened releasing demons.
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