Second Beat (Harold)
The second round of scenes in a Harold — each first-beat scene returns, but heightened and usually displaced in time, place, or frame.
Known for
- Structural rule: second beats return to the same game, not the same scene — the characters, context, and setting may all change.
- Often reframes: the scene was about siblings in the first beat, now it's about coworkers with the same dynamic.
- UCB teaches second beats as 'pulling premises' — identify what was happening under the scene, then bring it forward to new material.
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