Creator and showrunner of Station Eleven and Maniac. I used to write books, but then for tv, and now would like to busk more and am writing a new book. Wisconsin-blooded, Chicago-baked. https://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lpq57orbus2fMake sure your scripts are organized into .json datasets. Maybe throw a showrunnerInstruction.md file in, too. We’re cooked. (Not cooked.) Idk. I look forward to watching the show with my executives to “pressure test” the pre-viz. Friends: Your voice is what’s valuable. Not your hustle. https://ShowrunnerInstruction.md22 May 2025 03:08 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpq57orbus2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3loolqvllts2aAm I going crazy? The other day I saw a hip-hop deep fake video with Zuck and Musk and Trump all working in a factory at night and I cannot find it anywhere.08 May 2025 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3loolqvllts2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lomonlod322gAdverbs are like heroin for AI. We can’t just keep having interventions, man. You can do this.08 May 2025 00:44 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lomonlod322ghttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lo4n5hw6xc2wIs this the part where consumer goods just go up by 10 or 15% across the board because of the tariffs, and when the tariffs are gone, they don’t go back down?01 May 2025 15:35 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo4n5hw6xc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lnlgwh2mec2eWhat are the best tv scenes of all time?24 Apr 2025 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnlgwh2mec2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lkkql7fhtk2wYou know you built some good shit when you have to ask copilot if he’s hallucinating and he is like, no.17 Mar 2025 08:32 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkkql7fhtk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lkhlgqlsks2lFeige trolling MAGA and courting the 2029 Box Office is my return to normalcy.16 Mar 2025 02:22 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkhlgqlsks2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lkdygtpzec2pFeels pretty “I just thought of this in the bathtub” to go with 25% exactly as your tariff.14 Mar 2025 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkdygtpzec2phttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lh3wzzjoic2aI wrote this a few days before DeepSeek showed up, and it feels like reality shifted a little. But still. Daddy’s coming. Whichever one it is. https://open.substack.com/pub/patricksomerville/p/daddys-coming?r=29w34&utm_medium=ios01 Feb 2025 07:03 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh3wzzjoic2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lggh732vgs2zBut any AI that’s bad at the truth will be bad at math and science, and AI bad at math and science is worth zilch. It would be nice if that tension ripped apart the computer systems that are currently being built to preserve the billionaire class. But I’m not assuming it’ll be that easy.23 Jan 2025 17:53 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lggh732vgs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lgggw5yock2zIf you’ve been amused imagining a radically right troll struggling to circumnavigate Claude’s insistence on universal human rights, it may suddenly be not funny, at all, when we realize Elon Musk is in the game in order to create an LLM with an authoritarian right wing ideology cooked into it.23 Jan 2025 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgggw5yock2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lgggolbqcs2zI’m doing my very best to hold that in one hand, and a sober acknowledgment on global inequality in the other. You don’t have to be evangelical about AI to know that it’s about to do something. The cost of goods and services going down precipitously could mean a fascist world or a free world.23 Jan 2025 17:44 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgggolbqcs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lgggl7ezyc2zThough the world is unrecognizable compared to what it was 100 years ago, or 200 years ago, or 1000 years ago, there’s never been a subjective perspective where a person could watch that happen. I really think it’s going to be unrecognizable in one year. These things have never happened.23 Jan 2025 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgggl7ezyc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lg7y674vls2dhttps://patricksomerville.substack.com/p/daddys-coming21 Jan 2025 04:08 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg7y674vls2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lby6fduuxc2w🫶28 Nov 2024 03:58 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lby6fduuxc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lby3kfg3i22wThese are my grandparents.28 Nov 2024 03:07 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lby3kfg3i22whttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lbn4jwob2s2qPost this behind a secret panel in your home for the next ten years. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Nov 2024 18:25 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbn4jwob2s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lbn4fyvzoc2qNever forget. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Nov 2024 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbn4fyvzoc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lbdi2igt4c2yFunny you should ask I can tell you exactly what the first 120 minutes are like. 🙃. https://reactormag.com/what-would-a-station-eleven-tv-universe-look-like/19 Nov 2024 22:24 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbdi2igt4c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3lbddnp7imk2yCan’t wait for Station Eleven to premiere in a couple of weeks! https://www.slashfilm.com/1716951/station-eleven-cure-despair-streaming-max/19 Nov 2024 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbddnp7imk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3laripw2g4s2oAlso without them, the world would be a barren wasteland of ash and rusty golf clubs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Nov 2024 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3laripw2g4s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3larbz4vbw22oShould have gone with the kleroterion. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Nov 2024 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3larbz4vbw22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3larbrybles2oWe shot this the third day of Maniac, and between takes Emma told me the “co” in my “co-showrunner” meant that I was Mom.12 Nov 2024 16:44 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3larbrybles2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3l6v6ynovr42yI had so much media I loved dappled on twitter/x over the years. I don’t why it feels good to me for those things to exist not just on my phone, but as my kid plays soccer I’m gonna just make a museum of digital things I love. For example, this boomerang that captures the souls of my son and father.19 Oct 2024 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6v6ynovr42yhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3l4tgwojxln2uI spent some time looking back through this hauntingly beautiful light test photos of the Station Eleven apartment, where, in Toronto, you could look out and see the skyscrapers of Chicago, and time travel to before. https://open.substack.com/pub/patricksomerville/p/from-the-station-eleven-vaults?r=29w34&utm_medium=ios23 Sep 2024 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3l4tgwojxln2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3kp5urhkbp52tThe Justin Townes Earle version of Graceland is the definitive Graceland.02 Apr 2024 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3kp5urhkbp52thttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3knkkmkayx222It’s so easy to crash your boat on the rocks.13 Mar 2024 05:35 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3knkkmkayx222https://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3kgmhsppkmr2vNew episodes don’t come often, but I love making this collage-y storytelling podcast from voice memos I get from fascinating people. This one is full of love from author Nikesh Shukla: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0snLOA4uRBlAN2zfAYCKTL?si=9JSZXMTXRgi9l5UG9LEQoQ15 Dec 2023 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgmhsppkmr2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/patrickerville.bsky.social/post/3kgmgib3xvh23New episodes don’t come often, but I love making this collage-y storytelling podcast from voice memos I get from fascinating people. This one is full of love from author Nikesh Shukla: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0snLOA4uRBlAN2zfAYCKTL?si=9JSZXMTXRgi9l5UG9LEQoQ15 Dec 2023 21:30 +0000at://did:plc:u7vpgliiqjvxiqn3xgdpechw/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgmgib3xvh23