Not a TV guy at all, but watched the first episode of this show last night called The Affair.
The main hook here is not really ingrained into the plot itself, although I'm only one episode in. It seems the hook is in the actual stoytelling method.
For those who haven't seen it, it’s about this teacher/writer and his family who move to some little coastal town for the summer to visit his in-laws and give him space to write his next novel. He takes a liking to this one waitress. Boring ass concept.
But then comes the hook. It recreates the same scenes, from different character perspectives. The main character went to this diner and his young daughter was choking and he ended up saving her with the waitress’s help. Then we shift to that waitress’s perspective, about halfway through or something, and the way the choking scene happened was completely different. Even the way she looks was slightly different, implying she sees herself differently than the main character does.
It goes to show that sometimes memory is part fact and part imagination.
If anyone has an interesting hook they'd like to share, it'd be nice to hear.
The main hook here is not really ingrained into the plot itself, although I'm only one episode in. It seems the hook is in the actual stoytelling method.
For those who haven't seen it, it’s about this teacher/writer and his family who move to some little coastal town for the summer to visit his in-laws and give him space to write his next novel. He takes a liking to this one waitress. Boring ass concept.
But then comes the hook. It recreates the same scenes, from different character perspectives. The main character went to this diner and his young daughter was choking and he ended up saving her with the waitress’s help. Then we shift to that waitress’s perspective, about halfway through or something, and the way the choking scene happened was completely different. Even the way she looks was slightly different, implying she sees herself differently than the main character does.
It goes to show that sometimes memory is part fact and part imagination.
If anyone has an interesting hook they'd like to share, it'd be nice to hear.
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