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.

To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.

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

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.