Andrea Gunning

Maybe where we can start is going around and everyone introduce themselves and tell a little bit about how you worked on the show.

I think a really great place to start is how we found the story in the first place.

I think this question goes to Caitlin.

Can you tell us a little bit about how this season and how Saskia's story came to be?

I think for me, the fact that he could watch this person spiral, wake up with black eyes, wake up on the bathroom floor, feel like she is going crazy, feel like she is just now destined to walk the same path as her father who struggled with mental health.

And to know that you were doing something in the dark that could contribute to that is just so cruel.

To me, that's why I thought this was a really good season.

Like the two things that were happening, light of day and in the darkness.

Yeah.

The other aspect of the story that I just was like,

from an emotional point of view.

I think I've always really wanted to dismantle the idea of the perfect victim because I feel like

We just really default to this understanding of righteous rape.

That the only person that's worthy of saying I had this crime of rape done to me is this pristine victim that was plucked off the street and this happened.

Saskia's story kind of defies that archetype.

But it still doesn't change what happened to her.

And so it allowed us to really examine that myth in a really big way, not just through the criminal trial, but really the divorce trial.

So for that reason, I feel like that's why I really wanted to make this season.

Totally.

Tanner, you knew nothing going into the season about the story and the creative.