I think it's not uncommon for new television shows to spend certainly the first year, but without a doubt, like, the first eight or ten episodes, kind of figuring out what the show is.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But with a show that's successful, if you start in the first or second season and go until the end, you're always finding new elements of your character that are being added in because you start to live in them as human beings.
It's always difficult when you're on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.
The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.
The first season of a show is kind of like an extended pilot. You're only really on the map if it goes a second season.
I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.
Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.
Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.
I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.
Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?