Hey all!
Posting the full thread in the Screenwriting Lounge but flagging here because paywall placement is a financing-side question too. The first 6 to 8 episodes of a vertical season have to do double duty: deliver a satisfying free arc AND make the paywall feel like the obvious next move rather than a wall. Where the DramaBox finalists place that wall in their scripts will tell us a lot about where the platform is calibrating conversion right now. Full breakdown plus two other signals I am watching for:
https://www.stage32.com/lounge/screenwriting/Watching-for-May-15-what-the-DramaBox-finalists-will-tell-us-about-the-formats-near-future--Logan
TV writer of 15 years (Quantico, Gossip Girl, God Friended Me)
