Most people watch a movie. Some people immediately start reverse-engineering it.
Why did they make that choice? What problem were they trying to solve? What did they have to sacrifice to get there? What worked, what didn't, and what would you do differently?
Don’t Encourage Us is for people who can't stop thinking that way.
Each episode takes a film or series (from Barbie and Road House to 3 Body Problem and Deadpool & Wolverine) and examines it as a case study in creative and strategic decision-making. We look past the rating to the reasoning: the choices, constraints, trade-offs, execution, and consequences behind what ended up on screen.
It’s film and television analysis for people who approach fiction the way they approach everything else: with curiosity, skepticism, and an instinct to figure out how the thing actually works.
A forensic examination of creative decisions, by people who can’t turn that part of their brains off.
If your best conversations about a movie start after everyone else has stopped talking about it, you’re in the right place.