Dan Levy

I think the minute a writer's room starts to think about what the audience wants, they lose the plot.

Okay.

Because I think a lot of times what the character wants and needs is

is not what the audience wants for the character.

And it's hard to keep the noise out.

How do you practice that?

You just have to shut it out and care about the story you're telling.

You know what I mean?

You know more about the story you're telling than anyone else.

You know why a character should do something or say something or make the decisions they make, because it's a guttural, instinctual thing.

So for an audience who's like, gosh, I really hope they stay together,

sometimes it doesn't benefit the character for them to stay together.

It benefits the audience.

But if you earn it, that choice, I mean, we made some decisions on shits that I think went against audience expectations, but I have to believe they were the right decisions.

No, he's too scared to be in New York.

He would never have gone that far.

But I would assume that they were going to New York.

That's right.

No.

And he's... He did not have the savvy to get to New York, unfortunately.