by L.A. Gonzalez.
<div id="attachment_6753" style="width: 133px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://creativescreenwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Erica+Oyama+Paramount+Insurge+Presents+Season+xNdoV3G4bnFl.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-6753" class=" wp-image-6753 " alt="Erica Oyama" src="http://creativescreenwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Erica+Oyama+Paramount+Insurge+Presents+Season+xNdoV3G4bnFl-205x300.jpg" width="123" height="180" srcset="https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Erica+Oyama+Paramount+Insurge+Presents+Season+xNdoV3G4bnFl-205x300.jpg 205w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Erica+Oyama+Paramount+Insurge+Presents+Season+xNdoV3G4bnFl-102x150.jpg 102w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Erica+Oyama+Paramount+Insurge+Presents+Season+xNdoV3G4bnFl-119x175.jpg 119w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Erica+Oyama+Paramount+Insurge+Presents+Season+xNdoV3G4bnFl-398x583.jpg 398w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Erica+Oyama+Paramount+Insurge+Presents+Season+xNdoV3G4bnFl.jpg 406w" sizes="(max-width: 123px) 100vw, 123px" /></a>Erica Oyama</div>
There’s something inherently funny about dating shows like The Bachelor, where a group of single women compete for one man’s affection, hoping beyond reason to find true love on the reality TV stage in the span of a few short weeks.
Comedy writer Erica Oyama admits she watched the series with fascination and over time became a real fan of the popular cultural juggernaut. But it wasn’t until the 2010 season, while hosting a silly Bachelor viewing party with her actor/comedian husband Ken Marino (The State, Party Down) at their L.A. home that the idea struck to write a comedy about her longtime reality obsession.
“We had our friends, Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) and his wife Naomi over to watch the finale, because they were fans of the show as well,” Oyama recalls. “We dressed up. They presented us with roses. It was a really ridiculous night.” Then the foursome watched as bachelor Jake Pavelka shocked fans by making a surprising choice in the episode’s closing moments. “Jake had these two options, the perfect, sweet girl and the bad girl everybody hated,” Oyama says. “And he picked the bad girl! It was such great TV. Because you just sat there and watched him in this car wreck, in slow motion, proposing to this crazy person.”
<div id="attachment_6749" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://creativescreenwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/jake-pavelka-vienna-girardi-590kb030210.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-6749" class="size-medium wp-image-6749" alt="The Bachelor" src="http://creativescreenwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/jake-pavelka-vienna-girardi-590kb030210-300x172.jpg" width="300" height="172" srcset="https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/jake-pavelka-vienna-girardi-590kb030210-300x172.jpg 300w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/jake-pavelka-vienna-girardi-590kb030210-150x86.jpg 150w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/jake-pavelka-vienna-girardi-590kb030210-500x288.jpg 500w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/jake-pavelka-vienna-girardi-590kb030210.jpg 590w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Jake Pavelka and Vienna Giradi in The Bachelor</div>
The made-for-primetime moment inspired Oyama to pen a comedy short about the final episode of a reality dating series, where the bachelor character chooses “Ballerina, the crazy tranny” over Annie, the glaringly perfect girl. “We were just gonna shoot it, you know, for the internet,” Oyama says. “And then Ken was like, you could do a whole season of this. And we could just play around with all the stereotypes of the characters. We realized, oh, we could do a whole web series.”
Having watched the show for years, Oyama drew instinctively from her knowledge of the reality format and began brainstorming different archetypes to create a cast of over-the-top characters. She then went to work outlining the entire season. “And doing a little bit of math,” Oyama explains. “Because it has to go from 16 girls to one girl at the end. So it was just trying to figure out, who should go when, all the different arcs”. While working on the script, the husband-and-wife creative team decided to shoot a trailer with season highlights as a tool to secure funding for the Burning Love series. And Marino, who directs and stars in the series, cast many of his famous actor friends in the roles including Scott who plays the original snarky host—he was replaced by Michael Ian Black in the Yahoo series due to Parks &amp; Rec production—and Ken Jeong (The Hangover) who appears in drag in a mostly improvised cameo as the last tranny standing.
“We did a lot of improv,” Oyama says. “And a lot of that improv informed the characters. So when I was writing the season, I just tried to incorporate a lot of what the actors were already doing and bring out different aspects of everyone’s character. And so that helped a lot.” The Alabama born scribe says Marino’s portrayal in particular was especially helpful in developing the main character, hunky yet sleazy fireman, Mark Orlando. “I think that false sincerity, the fake humility that Ken found was kind of key to making it all make sense,” she says. “So you kind of like him, but he’s so gross. It just kind of plays up the whole idea that, you know, why are all these women competing for this person.”
<a href="http://creativescreenwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/BL_GroupImage.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6751" alt="Burning Love" src="http://creativescreenwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/BL_GroupImage.jpg" width="600" height="244" srcset="https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/BL_GroupImage.jpg 600w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/BL_GroupImage-150x61.jpg 150w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/BL_GroupImage-300x122.jpg 300w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/BL_GroupImage-500x203.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a>
Finding the right tone was another vital step in the writing process. And Oyama and Marino agreed the key to Burning Love’s humor was to play it straight. “I like things that are sort of dry and also absurd,” Oyama says about her comedy style. “We just tried to take what was already funny and ridiculous about The Bachelor and make it even more ridiculous, while trying to make it feel as real as possible.”
Oyama’s comedic take on reality dating shows resulted in a smart, spot-on parody that not only pokes fun at some of the more bizarre, unquestioned elements of the genre, but in many ways pays homage to them.
“One of my favorite things in Burning Love is just the weird interstitial,” Oyama says. “Because on reality shows they always cut to a plant and a bird flying away. So we just played with that. And had just, like frogs….and a whale. We also had a gardener character who was doing strange stuff like sniffing a flower and gazing into the sunset. It was kind of weird and fun.”
With the help of Ben Stiller’s production company, Red Hour productions, who signed on as producers along with partners Paramount Insurge Pictures, the scripted comedy series eventually landed on Yahoo! Oyama, who had previously written for Children’s Hospital on Adult Swim and the comedy web series Wainy Days, says the online company gave her a lot of freedom, allowing her to be “weird and absurd” and take creative risks that would never fly on a TV network.
And though Yahoo! placed no restrictions on the length of each episode, the running times were a major concern for Oyama who worried that the 7-10 minute episodes she’d writen might be a bit too long for an online audience.
“I was concerned because I kept hearing people don’t have the attention span to watch something for longer than five minutes,” Oyama explains. “But there were so many characters, so much going on, that it ended up being longer than that. But we found that people stayed with it and were invested and didn’t really mind. Oyama credits the growth of online channels like Netflix and Hulu for the shift, as audiences have become acustomed to absorbing content in new, different ways.
<a href="http://creativescreenwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/52812-jennifer_aniston_burning-love.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6750" alt="Jennifer Anniston" src="http://creativescreenwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/52812-jennifer_aniston_burning-love.jpg" width="395" height="237" srcset="https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/52812-jennifer_aniston_burning-love.jpg 395w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/52812-jennifer_aniston_burning-love-150x90.jpg 150w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/52812-jennifer_aniston_burning-love-300x180.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px" /></a>
Thanks in large part to a Jennifer Anniston clip from the show that went viral—she plays a contestant who hides in a panda suit to showcase her personality—the 14-episode scripted web series garnered early buzz when it debuted. And it continued to gain momentum as audiences became so invested, many held online debates each week, convinced these characters were actual people.
“We were surprised and became very entertained by the comment section,” Oyama says. “People would just get into fights with each other over whether or not it was real, and how could these people be so stupid as to be on this show. We wanted it to look like the real show. So I guess that’s good. But also, it’s not very encouraging, for society, that people thought it was real.”
The success of the Burning Love web series, which has been nominated for an Emmy and also reworked into a weekly half-hour TV series on the E! network, has opened new doors for Oyama in her writing career. Among other projects, she is currently working on a Fox sitcom pilot and also co-writing a movie adaptation of the children’s book, Go the Fuck to Sleep with husband Marino.
As Oyama points out, these opportunities wouldn’t have been possible had she not taken the initiative as a writer to put her ideas on the web, developing projects that showcase her distinct voice and particular brand of humor.
“A lot of these jobs have come about because people were fans of Burning Love, Oyama says. “I think people responded to the jokes and to the characters. That’s been my goal is to try to write things that are silly but also grounded in some sort of reality. Hopefully, we’ll be able to take that into films and make it successful.”

Breaking In with Burning Love

by L.A. Gonzalez
East Los Angeles is an area long associated with criminal activity and Latino gang-related shootings, or at least, that’s how it’s been portrayed most often in movies and TV police procedurals. It seems a rather unlikely setting for a television show about a group of teenagers. But East Los High is not your average teen drama series. Directed by Carlos Portugal, who was also the head writer, East Los High is an original Hulu series that follows the lives of Latino students at a Los Angeles high school. The story centers around Mexican-American cousins, Jessie and Maya, who fall for school jock, Jacob, and both wind up vying for his affection shortly after he breaks up with the homecoming queen upon discovering she’s sleeping around.
<div id="attachment_4649" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/HulupromoEastLosHigh.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4649" class="size-full wp-image-4649" alt="Hulu promotional piece for East Los High lays out the love triangle" src="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/HulupromoEastLosHigh.jpg" width="600" height="257" srcset="https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/HulupromoEastLosHigh.jpg 600w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/HulupromoEastLosHigh-150x64.jpg 150w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/HulupromoEastLosHigh-300x128.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a>Hulu promotional piece for East Los High lays out the love triangle</div>
The edgy series, which features an all-Latino cast of fresh, young faces, isn’t afraid to delve beyond these teen soap storylines and tackle hot-button issues like teen pregnancy and abortion as the sexually-active teens confront real-life consquences with a frank honesty rarely seen on a network show. Working closely with sexual health organizations, Portugal, who was a staff writer on Tyler Perry’s House of Pain and Meet the Browns and wrote and directed the Lifetime movie, Pop Star, wrote the series with the goal mainly to educate teens about sex. But he also hopes the popular Hulu show helps shatter stereotypes not just about East L.A. but the diverse Latinos who populate it.
<div id="attachment_4647" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Carlos-Portugal.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4647" class="size-full wp-image-4647" alt="Carlos Portugal, creator of East Los High" src="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Carlos-Portugal.jpg" width="590" height="378" srcset="https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Carlos-Portugal.jpg 590w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Carlos-Portugal-150x96.jpg 150w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Carlos-Portugal-300x192.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px" /></a>Carlos Portugal, co-creator of East Los High</div>
L.A. GONZALEZ: What inspired the two main Latina characters and the love triangle at the center of East Los High?
CARLOS PORTUGAL: I think we’ve all been in a situation where we’ve been in love with a person who is in love with someone else. It’s such a universal story. All the stories in the show are universal. And also, we get to explore two very different types of Latinas—one that is very sexually promiscuous and one that’s never had sex; the pure and innocent one, you think will be okay. But I’ll tell you, a lot of times the girls that make the biggest mistakes are the ones that have no experience. Like my sister, the first time she had sex with a guy, she completely freaked out. So I just wanted to explore that. I wanted to show a girl that would be worse, because she was sheltered, who completely falls apart because nobody educated her about sex.
<div id="attachment_4650" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/EastLosHighPassion.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4650" class="size-full wp-image-4650" alt="Passion on East Los High" src="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/EastLosHighPassion.jpg" width="600" height="400" srcset="https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/EastLosHighPassion.jpg 600w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/EastLosHighPassion-150x100.jpg 150w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/EastLosHighPassion-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a>Passion on East Los High</div>
GONZALEZ: Apart from the all-Latino cast, the series felt like other teen dramas with the same archetypal characters except for some distinct telenovela aspects.
PORTUGAL: The reveals, like the priest character and Mia’s mom who shows up and she’s a hooker/stripper. That’s pretty telenovela. I love all that stuff [laughs]. It’s so juicy.
GONZALEZ: Priests are a telenovela staple!
PORTUGAL: What’s funny though is in telenovelas priests are so revered. I mean, everytime you turn around there’s another priest abusing little boys. They’re human beings. And they’re flawed. I thought, you know what? Let’s push the envelope. [spoiler alert] I’m going to create a priest who has sex with a fourteen-year-old girl. So it was like a telenovela, yes. But it’s not like any telenovela you’ve ever seen.
GONZALEZ: Tell us about the initial pitch and how the series came together.
PORTUGAL: Well, it came from an amazing organization called Population Media Center (PMC). They found from research that young Latinas didn’t have the same level of sex education as, you know, Anglo girls in the United States. So they hired me to create a show that would educate young girls about sex, and about options they’d have if they were engaging in sex. That was how the show came about.
<div id="attachment_4652" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode9-3-1024x640.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4652" class="size-full wp-image-4652" alt="Sex Education in East Los High" src="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode9-3-1024x640.jpg" width="600" height="375" srcset="https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode9-3-1024x640.jpg 600w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode9-3-1024x640-150x93.jpg 150w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode9-3-1024x640-300x187.jpg 300w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode9-3-1024x640-478x300.jpg 478w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode9-3-1024x640-237x148.jpg 237w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a>Sex Education in East Los High</div>
GONZALEZ: So they gave you the basic premise, and you essentially ran with it?
PORTUGAL: Pretty much. Well, the one thing I realized right away is that this show is mainly about women. So I reached out to my friend Kathleen Bedoya (co-producer), because I needed a Latina writer who could help me with the voice of these girls. We started bouncing ideas back and forth. And I remember, I was driving into the Tyler Perry Studios, and we were on the phone. She was in NY, and I was in Atlanta. And we said, “Okay, why don’t we make it about two cousins who fall in love with the same guy. And one is a nice girl, lives with her mother and she’s a virgin. The other girl is a runaway who goes around and has unprotected sex, takes drugs and doesn’t give a shit about anything but herself. And they wind up falling for the same guy.” Everything else came from that.
GONZALEZ: How did you go about writing the script?
PORTUGAL: We were hired originally to write the show bible, where we pretty much laid the story out from beginning to end. Then I got together with a group of writers in Los Angeles turning the bible into outlines for all the episodes. I’m really good at that. I’m very good at structure—coming up with plot points and finding drama. I spent a whole summer doing that with a group of six other writers, like three years ago. Then PMC got more funding and I hired another group of incredible writers, all Latino by the way, with one exception. And we spent the next few months writing and rewriting the scripts. We did so much work on the scripts. We actually had kids from East LA come to the writer’s room. Give us words and phrases. Just one more thing we did. It was a six-hundred-page document by the time we were done.
<div id="attachment_4653" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode15-7-1024x640.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4653" class="size-full wp-image-4653" alt="East Los High" src="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode15-7-1024x640.jpg" width="600" height="375" srcset="https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode15-7-1024x640.jpg 600w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode15-7-1024x640-150x93.jpg 150w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode15-7-1024x640-300x187.jpg 300w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode15-7-1024x640-478x300.jpg 478w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode15-7-1024x640-237x148.jpg 237w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a>East Los High</div>
GONZALEZ: Given there aren’t any set parameters or rules for an online series, why did you decide to structure it like a traditional TV series?
PORTUGAL: I wrote them as half hour shows, meaning it’s a 21-minute show with four act breaks and commercials. Because I always felt the quality would be good enough to air on a network. This was really a dream project. We decided we were going to do the show we wanted to do without any network interference, because we felt it was going to be a really good show and networks would want to buy it.
GONZALEZ: How long did it take to shoot the series?
PORTUGAL: It took 67 days. So we were shooting an average of 8-10 script pages a day, which I do not recommend. [laughs] Because we’re low-budget—even though we got funding and the show looks really good, it was done for very little money.
<div id="attachment_4654" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/image_1513.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4654" class="size-full wp-image-4654" alt="Hulu promotional image for East Los High" src="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/image_1513.jpg" width="600" height="222" srcset="https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/image_1513.jpg 600w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/image_1513-150x55.jpg 150w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/image_1513-300x111.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a>Hulu promotional image for East Los High</div>
GONZALEZ: How did Hulu become involved?
PORTUGAL: The executive producer, Katie Elmore, she was going to deal with the distribution of the show. So I edited the first three episodes, and they started reaching out to all these different networks and companies. We had networks that were interested, but it was decided Hulu was the best one, just because they’re so cutting edge. They weren’t interested in censoring anything. There was never anything about, “Oh, you have to tone this down.” Or it’s too raw. I mean the characters cuss a lot. They embraced that. And there was so much passion and dedication from their team that it just became the perfect marriage.
GONZALEZ: How does East Los High compare with a teen drama on say, MTV or the WB?
PORTUGAL: I don’t think they push the envelope enough. I’ll give you an example. One of the things we deal with in our show is abortion. There’s not a single teen drama that goes there. You know, even an HBO show like Girls. Have you seen that show?
GONZALEZ: Yes, I’ve watched it.
PORTUGAL: That’s supposed to be so hip and edgy. I was watching the show. And one of the girls goes to the clinic to have an abortion. And I’m like, okay great, finally. Here’s an HBO show and they’re going to deal with abortion. And then, she starts bleeding and it was a false pregnancy. So they didn’t have to deal with the fact that this girl was pregnant and was going to have an abortion. They chickened out. People are so scared of portraying that. We did it. And I showed the girl having an abortion. You wouldn’t see that in a CW show. You wouldn’t even see that on HBO. So we push the envelope in a lot of the stories.
<div id="attachment_4655" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode8-5-1024x640.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4655" class="size-full wp-image-4655" alt="East Los High" src="http://192.254.190.185/~erikpsc/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode8-5-1024x640.jpg" width="600" height="375" srcset="https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode8-5-1024x640.jpg 600w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode8-5-1024x640-150x93.jpg 150w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode8-5-1024x640-300x187.jpg 300w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode8-5-1024x640-478x300.jpg 478w, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/cswcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELH-Episode8-5-1024x640-237x148.jpg 237w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a>East Los High</div>
GONZALEZ: There are so many opportunities for writers now online to tell different kinds of stories, offer something edgy and different. Do you agree?
PORTUGAL: Absolutely. Because it allows a more specific voice where before it was like, if I’m going to write for a network show, I’d better start writing white 18-year-old girls, so I can write Gossip Girl. All these different networks like Netflix and Hulu and Amazon and Yahoo, they’re becoming very strong. I think a lot more writers coming up now, hopefully, will be able to get on one of these networks and present their ideas. There’s room for a lot of different voices.

Breaking In with Burning Love

Carlos Portugal and Hulu’s East Los High

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