David Kreisman

I think it was great.

As someone who was working on Season 3 today, I will say I'm in that world very heavily.

Or we're going back and then the end.

Yeah, that was pretty early on.

So sort of mapping out the season, I had this thought of they're going to have to distract Ned at some point.

And wouldn't it be so fun if they put on a play?

I think the play came first, and then the idea of making Phoebe a playwright was part of that.

It's a little bit stolen from a Gilligan's Island episode.

Except in that one, they don't try to distract.

A director, a famous Broadway producer winds up on Gilligan's Island.

Like they do.

Yeah.

And they decide to put on a show for him thinking that he's going to rescue them if their show is really great.

There were a lot of questions about why are they putting on a play if there's no one in the audience?

Exactly.

Ars gratia artis.

Well, you know, the show has two major challenges.

The first one is that it all takes place on this one island and you can't leave.

And then the second one, especially for season one anyway, was that you only have five characters.

So going into season two, there was, for me, I was really thinking, I think we need to introduce more characters just because there's only so much that these five people can do.