I Remember What It Was Like To

There Is No Suspense In Inevitability.

Look, We Can Definitively Agree That Cable Is Far Superior To Network. That Isn't To Say That There Can't Be A Great Network Drama Or Comedy That Makes 20-plus Episodes A Year. We Know That There Are, And There Have Been.

If You Do Something Awesome, You Should Be Proud Of Yourself.

I Feel Like The Big Twist Shows Are Now Off The Table. I Think Westworld Was Probably The Last One To Trojan Horse This Idea Of The Young Man In Black. They Were Doing Non-linear Storytelling, But Disguising It. Jonah Nolan And Lisa Joy Have Spoken Openly About How They Just Didn't Think People Were Going To Figure It Out That Fast.

But I Do Think That, When You Slow The Conveyor Belt Down, The Quality Control Tends To Go Up. You Have A Lot More Time Between Seasons To Talk About What Worked And What Didn't Work, And Plan For The Future. And The Pacing Of The Storytelling, Particularly For On-going Serialized Dramas, Means That You Don't Need To Do Non-essential Episodes, Just Because You Have To Fill This Pre-existing Schedule.