When it comes to American TV entertainment, death is overwhelmingly delivered in breathtaking fashion—shootings, stabbings, suffocation (includes drowning), suicide, beatings, poisonings and explosions. Even the supernatural gets listed among the most common causes of dying onscreen.
Our fall newsletter spotlighted the 2022 Sentinel Awards, our first live red-carpet event in three years; the five winners of the Blue Sky Scriptwriting Contest; a new partnership to change the way we talking about dying; and the third Sunnylands storytelling retreat that brought together experts and showrunners to explore how popular entertainment can help build an equitable society.