Katie Notopoulos

Hi, thanks for having me.

Yeah, the show has become massively popular.

Off the top of my head, I know that there's sort of all these stats of it's had a tremendous amount of watch time on HBO, which is the U.S.

distributor or whatever.

And it sort of came out of nowhere.

It didn't have a lot of promotion behind it initially.

The actors are unknown, so it doesn't really have any big stars in it.

The books had been around, so there was like a low-level sort of fan base of this going into it.

Yeah.

You know, I think partly it's sort of hit at a time, you know, over the holidays when a lot of people had some free time.

And people just love this show.

It's, you know, it's romantic.

It's sexy.

It's fun.

It's a happy story.

I don't want to give a spoiler alert there, but I don't think that's much of a spoiler.

It's based on romance novels.

And I think people who aren't used to consuming romance novels might be surprised at how, like,

uncomplicated they are in a certain way.

Things go well for the main characters and there's not a lot of side plots.