Look, filmmaking and TV are collaborative media, and auteur theory is more or less bullshit as anything but shorthand, but it’s hard not to raise a worried eyebrow when the direct follow-up to V, a phenomenon which aired only a year previously, has a credit block like this:
Teleplay by
Brian Taggert and Peggy Goldman
Story by
Lillian Weezer & Peggy Goldman & Faustus Buck & Diane Frolov and Harry & Renee Longstreet
Created by
Kenneth Johnson
Directed by
Richard T. Heffron
When the original miniseries credit block was:
Written and Directed by
Kenneth Johnson
To anyone familiar with the WGA crediting system, all of those “and” and “&” add up to a tale at least as interesting as this flat follow-up to V…