Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.

Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.

I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.