Meredith Monday Schwartz

But for me, it was an impediment that was that was hard for me from the beginning.

The second thing, and this is the one thing that I really don't know if it's just a me thing, I struggled to take.

extremely seriously the idea of how extremely seriously these characters took what they were doing on this comedy show, which is clearly like Saturday Night Live, right?

It's clearly a stand-in for that.

These characters are wholly consumed by what they're doing on the show.

Like the intensity is complete.

And reading this in 2026,

It started to feel a little bit theater kid-ish to me.

Like, it was so impassioned and earnest that a certain point, just, I was like, did they really think that what they were doing here was this important?

Like, just at a certain point, it was very navel-gazy.

It took itself so seriously.

The characters took what they were doing so seriously.

You'll have to, your mileage may vary on that.

Now, there are a couple of things that felt a little less personal just to me.

My biggest quibble was that the way that the interviews are formatted in this book is something that I found messy.

The oral history format works brilliantly, I think, in a lot of books, but especially like the book that this is going to be comped to, Daisy Jones and the Sixth.

where you know whose voice you're hearing and that architecture is really clean.

But here it would start with one person and it would kind of tell you like a transcript of an interview on this date and time with this person.

And then other voices would get woven in that were from previous interviews.

But then I would get confused about who was actually sitting in the room, which mattered to me because that gives context to what people are saying.