Dream Machine scene snippet — “Should Have Known”

Finished the script for Dream Machine episode 4 last night, so the cast could have a chance to look at it if they chose before our rehearsal on Sunday. I’m excited for it, since these have been a ton of fun for me. This one turned out a bit unbalanced in terms of what characters it focuses on, but that’s something that happens over the course of a serial ensemble show.

Though the episode 4 script is light on Ryan, it does something important for what I’m trying to do for his character. I want to set him up as being ruthlessly practical and business-minded about the process of making the new show— to the point where he actually doesn’t have faith that the project can be anything more than a moneymaker at best. But Leah is getting more and more invested in doing a good job with it, so when she’s confronted with how little concern he really has about the craft of it, it’s going to be a big deal. Even a betrayal. A major part of the Dream Machine story is dramatizing and satirizing the creative process, and the conflict between business and art is a major aspect of that.

I don’t know which episode or where exactly in the season this scene would fall. But it would be a crisis point in the relationship between these two characters that they’d have to work through. So of course I am spoiling that moment here.



If you'd like to check out the episodes of Dream Machine so far, you can find them as follows:
1.01 - "The Show Must Go Off"
1.02 - "Requiem For a Dreamer"
1.03 - "Change or Die"

(  “Should Have Known”  )