At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

Let's be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how complicated the relationships are, how grounded they are and how much heart they have.

It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

People love a good mystery; I understand that.