Dan Fogelman

How do all these pieces intersect? And I think we did it really successfully it's kind of giving people the treat to go with the medicine. And so I think that was something that was organically built into the show. Do you need it nowadays? I don't know, but it sure doesn't hurt if you have it. If you're trying to make noise, it doesn't hurt. Dan doesn't know because he always has it.

It definitely unfolded as it went along. We liked to present that we had the whole thing figured out from the beginning, but the truth was it unfolded every season, and we would find little things and then go back. Like I was speaking about earlier,

It definitely unfolded as it went along. We liked to present that we had the whole thing figured out from the beginning, but the truth was it unfolded every season, and we would find little things and then go back. Like I was speaking about earlier,

It definitely unfolded as it went along. We liked to present that we had the whole thing figured out from the beginning, but the truth was it unfolded every season, and we would find little things and then go back. Like I was speaking about earlier,

realizing we had pictures of the kids as young kids all over the show and then realizing, oh, it'll be good if Jack grabbed some pictures from the house during the fire. That is a small example of how it would like evolve.

realizing we had pictures of the kids as young kids all over the show and then realizing, oh, it'll be good if Jack grabbed some pictures from the house during the fire. That is a small example of how it would like evolve.

realizing we had pictures of the kids as young kids all over the show and then realizing, oh, it'll be good if Jack grabbed some pictures from the house during the fire. That is a small example of how it would like evolve.

Yeah, but in reality, if I'm being honest, one of my great regrets, if I could do it all over again, is I would have done that all at the beginning of season one with those kids and with Mandy and Milo. And I would have like spent six months shooting tons of stuff. And then that could, and that could boyhood style.

Yeah, but in reality, if I'm being honest, one of my great regrets, if I could do it all over again, is I would have done that all at the beginning of season one with those kids and with Mandy and Milo. And I would have like spent six months shooting tons of stuff. And then that could, and that could boyhood style.

Yeah, but in reality, if I'm being honest, one of my great regrets, if I could do it all over again, is I would have done that all at the beginning of season one with those kids and with Mandy and Milo. And I would have like spent six months shooting tons of stuff. And then that could, and that could boyhood style.

And that could have been the sixth season of the show, kind of like in some ways of the backstories. Um, I didn't have the foresight that I did it after the second or third season when we were like having great success, even though, so it's like, it's always a hybrid of like, it, it wasn't all just like, kind of like preformed.

And that could have been the sixth season of the show, kind of like in some ways of the backstories. Um, I didn't have the foresight that I did it after the second or third season when we were like having great success, even though, so it's like, it's always a hybrid of like, it, it wasn't all just like, kind of like preformed.

And that could have been the sixth season of the show, kind of like in some ways of the backstories. Um, I didn't have the foresight that I did it after the second or third season when we were like having great success, even though, so it's like, it's always a hybrid of like, it, it wasn't all just like, kind of like preformed.

We didn't have another plan. There was, at the end of the show, there was like a little bit of conversation of... You know, nobody really wanted it to end. I knew it needed to end. And there was a little bit of conversation about talking about the family when we get to the very, very end of the series of doing something with the family whose lives intersected with Jack at the hospital that night.

We didn't have another plan. There was, at the end of the show, there was like a little bit of conversation of... You know, nobody really wanted it to end. I knew it needed to end. And there was a little bit of conversation about talking about the family when we get to the very, very end of the series of doing something with the family whose lives intersected with Jack at the hospital that night.

We didn't have another plan. There was, at the end of the show, there was like a little bit of conversation of... You know, nobody really wanted it to end. I knew it needed to end. And there was a little bit of conversation about talking about the family when we get to the very, very end of the series of doing something with the family whose lives intersected with Jack at the hospital that night.

And maybe making a completely different family born out of the night of tragedy that we would then go off and follow. So it would be more of a spinoff than a continuation. And at the end of the day, it's just, I was like, I don't want to do this without the guys. I kind of need to step back from family dramas. And we just couldn't quite figure out that we had the appetite for it.

And maybe making a completely different family born out of the night of tragedy that we would then go off and follow. So it would be more of a spinoff than a continuation. And at the end of the day, it's just, I was like, I don't want to do this without the guys. I kind of need to step back from family dramas. And we just couldn't quite figure out that we had the appetite for it.

And maybe making a completely different family born out of the night of tragedy that we would then go off and follow. So it would be more of a spinoff than a continuation. And at the end of the day, it's just, I was like, I don't want to do this without the guys. I kind of need to step back from family dramas. And we just couldn't quite figure out that we had the appetite for it.

But that was the only place that it ever came up.