Van Lathan

I'm not saying this is Ted Lasso.

Ted Lasso is actually Will Schmalzer.

You wouldn't consider that to be a prestige show.

However, The Bear, which doesn't have very much heart at all, but has a lot of emotionality that's through desperation and through this feeling of destiny and intensity, that speaks more to...

Like what people would say is prestige to me.

There's a charm there, right?

The show makes you think that Sterling K. Brown is almost being underused.

Because I'd love to see Xavier as a Secret Service agent or some type of vigilante in this grander way with a $100 million budget behind it.

But with this, he is just so effective when he is mission-based.

When his mission is to guard the president, that is 100% his mission.

He does a great job of that.

That puts him in the middle of all of this stuff.

But then on top of that, though, you have situations that are pulling at him.

And a lot of this show is, to me, it's sort of interrogating your function versus your family.

like this type of high stakes environment where you also, where you have to like, there's 25,000 people at the end of the world that are living in this bunker.

This huge cataclysm has happened.

What do you bring to the table?

What is the thing that you do?

Because right now we can all do whatever we want, but in a situation like that, everybody has to do something.

So Sinatra has to be the leader and the brains and the sort of pragmatic, you know,