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Book Coach Corner: Killing It
Background: What Is Book Coach Corner?
Book Coach Corner is a blog series that allows me (your neighborhood-friendly book coach) to analyze books, TV shows, and movies. I will then dissect them in terms of story structure. As a heads up: there will be spoilers, and some posts may not make sense if you haven’t seen/read the work.
Those are the details. This entry explores the Peacock television series Killing It, a story about…well…a lot of things. I don’t want to spoil it!
Synopsis
This blog is a challenge because I don’t want to ruin any of the chaotic joy that is Killing It. My husband started watching it because the introductory clip on Peacock was hilarious. (It involves an Uber driver pulling over on the side of a road to murder a snake.) I think the best way to describe it in a spoiler-free way is this: Killing It is the story of two random people who come together and try to help each other achieve their dreams.
Quick Thoughts
I never thought I’d describe a 22-minute, situational comedy as “Game of Thrones”-like, but…that’s the only way to talk about this. No one is safe, there is no way you can predict what will happen next, and the stakes are continually going through the roof. Aside from one minor subplot, I’ve loved…
