Kathryn VanArendonk

Which is really nice.

For all of my frustrations with like just having Dev be on Mars and then do nothing and just sort of stand in a little castle and be like.

It is really so refreshing to have a fiction that is not.

constantly checking in with some other mommy text to be like yes am i allowed to do this am i behaving badly right now and and i am particularly pleased about it because i get so tired of the homeworky fandom response that i i myself am i will find myself falling into it constantly whenever i know the source material of a thing it was like this it was like that and you

And I feel like it never leads to the best outcome.

TV adaptation, which should always be its own good thing first.

Make new things.

Great, great.

Yeah.

I like a bleak, gloomy Americans aesthetic.

You're saying it like it's a bad thing.

But I think there's I think there's plenty of I mean, the Americans also never a show that swept the world in fandom.

Real critical fave.

And so, you know, there's it does have a tone.

It has a look.

It has a mood.

Is that mood pretty depressing?

Yes.

But but I do think that is it has an identity, which is more than many Netflix shows can say.

And actually, frankly, more than some Apple shows can say, because often the Apple show identity is different.