Dan Levy

And I thought that was such a clever way of at times sacrificing the continuity of expectation to just disrupt and see what happened.

And I think that has to be done in entertainment as well, film and television.

In your new series, Big Mistakes, you asked the legendary fellow Canadian and queer icon Peaches to write the musical score.

And how did you know who to bring into your work?

There was only one option.

Because she's a disruptor and a radical.

And watching the episode, suddenly you're reminded...

you have this kind of emotional, as though you're just flying across the road and along this journey of the characters.

And it's so ingenious.

It was always Peaches.

long before we even started writing.

Really?

Yeah, because I always put a playlist together before I work on something because I find that music allows me to conjure scenes and ideas and vibes.

And so I'll put these extensive playlists together that I'll listen to over and over and over again.

Certain songs I'll listen to like 10, 15, 20 times a day because something about the song elicits a visual for me.

I'm able to picture a scene come to life by way of a song.

And so music is so formative in the way that I build television.

And Peaches was a ton of her music was in the big mistakes kind of playlist before I even started writing.

And then when we finished the show and had some things to show her,

I wrote her a nice little note and just asked and sent her the first two episodes of the show.