Screenwriting Advice: Feed the Audience Every 5 Minutes

By now, you’ve probably heard the supposed mandate from streamers, specifically Netflix, that filmmakers and writers need to continually keep the audience engaged by repeating plot points and reexplaining the story frequently. At least according to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck . (For what it’s worth, Netflix execs later refuted those claims and said there was “no such principle” in play during their…