You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.
From Shawn Ryan
The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.
I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.
Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.
There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.
The payment for certain sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.
I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.
TV is just such a fast-moving medium that you do what you can do, and what you can't do, you don't worry about too much.
I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.
To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.
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