We did want it ["Mary and Jane"] to feel a little different and have some surreal weird touches, which we try to do every episode. That is what we took advantage of.

I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.

It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way.

We did want it ["Mary and Jane"] to feel a little different and have some surreal weird touches, which we try to do every episode. That is what we took advantage of.

The original pilot script [ of "Mary and Jane"], we literally just wrote for fun. It was, let's just do this.

Two years ago it felt novel to do the East Side and then tons of other stuff have come up set in that world, but we still liked it. It felt like people are using East Side in other shows because it is cool.

Totally whatever we want to put in there. Then it was really "Now we are going to make it. We really need to find a consistent tone."I think the pilot ["Mary and Jane"] actually got it. It was more about the other episodes making sure everything else.