To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute.

To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute.

The beauty behind killing someone who no one thinks you're willing to kill is, of course, that you throw people out of their comfort zone. And that's good because you want people to be on the edge of their seats.

To create a situation where each new episode has to start in the exact same place as the previous one, with the actors' hair in the exact same place, seemed crazy.

You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.

What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong for the show.

As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role in the show's success, because it gives the show this sense of suspense from the fact that it seems at least plausible.