People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

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?"

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

I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

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.

I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em."