Just Put Your Best Foot Forward And

You Can't Just Come Out And Do The Same Moves That You Always Do Because Someone Just Basically Came Into The Center Of The Ring And Spun Around On Their Head And Did A Back Flip.

A Lot Of Writers Whom I Love, Admire And Call Friends Share This Feeling, Which Is This Fundamental Idea That We're Frauds. That We Will Be Pushed Out On To The Stage, And It Will Be Revealed That The Emperor Has No Clothes.

I Think The Idea That Television Has Evolved To This Place Of Real Thematic Richness And The Fact That You No Longer Have To Get 10 Million People To Watch Your Show In Order To Propagate Its Survival Are The Best Things That Have Ever Happened To Storytelling In This Medium.

I Think That At The End Of The Day I'm Drawn To A Certain Level Of Ambiguous Storytelling That Requires Hard Thought And Work In The Same Way That The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Does: Sometimes You Just Want To Put It Down Or Throw It Out The Window, But There's A Real Rewarding Sense If You Feel Like You've Cracked It.

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.