31 Plays in 31 Days, #24 - "Grading Circle of Hell"

This scene piece for my Frasier spinoff pilot feels particularly not cohesive. It's got lots of good ideas and the beginnings of funny jokes, but it doesn't have the right rhythm or flow yet. It's designed to set up Freddy a little as a snarky, lonely person who feels a bit trapped in his life, but it doesn't completely demonstrate that. Still, I think with editing it could be made to work nicely. It also would be the first scene featuring Leah Keoh, a fellow adjunct that Freddy works with, tentatively filling in the Roz role. I wrote about her already in Day #20 - Reaching Out.

This would be the first part of the scene that is finished off with the piece from Day #4 - The Cousins Crane. As I mentioned before Day #22 - Men of the Ivies, I'd want to edit the second part of this so that David had not yet told Niles that he was suspended, and that he wasn't sure whether or not he'd be going back to Yale after an attempt was made to straighten things out. I haven't made those edits yet, but I will when I start assembling the pilot from the scenes.

( Day #24 - Grading Circle of Hell )