BW’s Saturday Article Link> The Mystery Of The Mystery Box

A mystery box is not a good mystery. So says author Brian Newmeyer and basically everyone who has seen the trope employed, rarely if ever making a good story with it. In this article, he goes over what a mystery box is and why it’s such a terrible storytelling tool. The goal to me is setting up a situation it won’t deliver on to trick you into watching the story they really want to make, which is lying to your audience.