One of my delights in that first season was going to these table reads where things got progressively darker and seeing the actors kind of look at each other like ‘what did we sign up for?’
The actors all signed up for the first episode that they read, which is like a pilot episode like ‘yeah, this sounds fun.’
We, as writers, go to darker places because we can.
I don’t think we told the actors that that was the plan.
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