Rob Mahoney

I think it's been pretty successful.

And as far as most of my hesitations or my problems with the season have been more like, what are we doing with the main cast?

What are we doing with these doctors and nurses that we know about and care about?

The pit is great at introductions.

Like they're great at throwing people into the mix and giving you a pretty clear version of who those characters are and then kind of paying them off.

I think we're going to have to see over two and three and four seasons or however long the show ends up running, what you do with Dr. Santos over four years, what you do with Whitaker over four years, how you write characters in and out of the show over time.

It's not easy to do.

And I think season two has kind of bumped up against the limits of the structure and the development cycle.

And I say that in terms of the character development cycle within the show.

And they're trying to figure out how to manage an ensemble that's this big.

Mel feels like the go-to.

That was bait.

Like her also liking the Civil War reenactors.

That's just straight bait.

Very much so.

I hope they land it, especially because those two examples, those are people at the opposite ends of the screen time spectrum.

That's what I'm saying.

You can fail in both ways.

You can succeed in both ways.

It just really depends.