For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing for me is that when you're feeling very scared and nervous about something and you're fairly convinced that it could be a massive disaster, that's exactly the idea that you should do.

As a storyteller, you also don't want to make people feel like they're left out, like other people who have read the book have an interior knowledge of this show, and the degree of difficulty in watching it is much higher.

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

I think one of the problems in determining the ending for a television series is that you don't know how long the show is gonna last. Particularly because we were in the unique position of adapting Tom's Perrotta novel The Leftovers, it always felt like the first season was gonna end with the end of Tom's novel, and then we would figure things out from there and look back.